New Python and Java libraries enable developers to add voice and SMS to GAE Web apps with just a few lines of code, via Twilio's cloud-based communications platform.

Howard M. Lewis Ship, creator of the Tapestry web application framework, says that developers have lots of excuses for not testing their applications, but resistance is counterproductive -- especially when given a testing framework as sensible as Spock.

Upload on S3 with the jclouds library - the 4 generic Blob APIs.

A new version of the Open Source integration testing tool is available. Citrus 1.3 introduces a set of new features for automated integration tests on message based enterprise applications.

It is not easy to find a common language between business and IT as their goals are typically not aligned. We looked at a big eCommerce store to see how they bridge the gap between business goals such as "Drive more Visits with Marketing Campaigns" and IT Goals such as "optimal usage of IT Resources and site availability" Learn from them how to answer questions like: How successful are my marketing campaigns? What is impacting campaign success? How do we ensure better alignment with IT for future promotions?

The problem with mapping that we encountered in our project turned out to be a very interesting issue to deal with. The complexity of mappings made first XSLT, then Drools not a perfect solution. In the article I am presenting a Java application that compiles at runtime Groovy scripts that are supposed to be written by a BA with a simple and comprehensive DSL.

Storm is an open source, big-data processing system that differs from other systems in that it's intended for distributed real-time processing and is language independent. Learn about Twitter Storm, its architecture, and the spectrum of batch and stream processing solutions.

Text visualization is an effective way to see and analyze what a designated text is saying. Learn to combine Eclipse and open source text visualization and analytics tools to build a word-wave application that visualizes and compares two texts.

The call for proposals for JavaOne 2013 is open until April 12*. So, if you have something worth sharing with the Java community now would be the time to submit your presentation idea.

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There's an interesting article on the Oracle Technology Network by Björn Müller who discusses the decision to move the CaptainCasa community built front-end infrastructure from Swing to JavaFX.

He talks about programming fads, HTML5, what CaptainCasa needed to achieve from a business application point of view and how JavaFX presented itself as a good solution. It's a good read if you're thinking about developing with JavaFX.

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Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of our systems declaratively. In current post we are going to see how to install TomEE using Puppet.

With LiveRebel 2.6 you can rollout code, database and configuration changes in sync, onto a blend of environments with no downtime or overhead.

Here's some links to overviews of the classes for some of the most basic JavaFX controls:

• Label class - an overview of how to use JavaFX labels.
• Button class - using JavaFX buttons.
• TextField class - getting the user to input a single line of text with the JavaFX TextField control.
• ChoiceBox class - choosing options from a dropdown.

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Build the real-world skills needed to begin developing modern apps with HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Work at your own pace through the lessons, exercises, and practices in this Training Guide—for the hands-on expertise your job demands.

A/B and multivariate testing are often used to improve the conversion funnel. What these tools do is randomly place alternative change images, text or other design elements to gather statistics about how these things affect site visitors. Companies have had great success using such solutions, but sometimes multiple rounds of testing still produce inconclusive data: changing the color or image on their pages did not have a significant impact on the overall conversion rate. Does this mean that there is no way for that business to improve the conversion funnel? In these cases, marketing and other business stakeholders often think: “We have chosen the wrong images. Let’s try some more!” and a new test cycle is started. But I think we should consider other factors. Specifically, how the end-user experience is affected by the responsiveness and performance of these pages.

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If you’re not convinced the hype around Big Data is entirely justified, consider the following statistics: in the time it takes an average person to read this article, 72 petabytes of data (that’s 72 x 1015 if you’re counting) will have been added to the global information pool. Each hour, Walmart processes more than 1 million customer transactions, logging data into databases estimated to contain more than 2.5 petabytes of data – the equivalent of 167 times the information contained in all the books in the U.S. Library of Congress. Facebook uploads 500 terabytes of new information daily. The volume of global business data generated is doubling every 1.2 years.

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Now in its fifth year, the About.com Readers' Choice Awards honor the best products, features and services across more than a dozen categories, ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting and more, as selected by its readers. Additionally, for the first time ever, About en Espanol participated in this year's awards.

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JavaScript-based embedded editor can handle more than 60 types of new and old programming languages, including Java.

Get a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for bugs in your application. Learn how to write specifications for individual components, and then use those specs to test the code you write.

To some, Antonio Goncalves's modernized Java EE Pet Shop application serves as a demo for Java EE done right. Porting Pet Shop to NoSQL (via Couchbase 2.0) turned up both strengths and weaknesses of Java enterprise programming.