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Keep your gradle dependencies up to date seamlessly

Posté le par Thomas Dalous

Keeping your dependencies up to date is not the funniest part of a project dev process. Especially if the dependencies list becomes long. However, it is crucial to keep your dependencies as possible close to the up-to-date versions available in order to benefit from the latest upgrades (such as bug fixes). The longer you wait, the harder the upgrade will be. So what if you receive an email every week to inform your team about the last version available of your projects dependencies? Some tools like Lint…

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Consulting Chronicles

The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises – Part 2

Posté le par François Petitit, Mickaël Tricot

In the first part of this article, we talked about new front-end architectures, which consist of JavaScript Web applications using APIs provided by a back-end server: The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises – Part 1. We saw that they recently emerged thanks to the increasing performance of browsers and the rise of industrialization tools for JavaScript development. In this second part, we will focus on: reasons why you should adopt these new architectures; opportunities they provide; impacts for enterprises.

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Consulting Chronicles

The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises – Part 1

Posté le par François Petitit, Mickaël Tricot

Web applications evolve. From static HTML sites first to AJAX applications more recently, through multiple dynamic technologies (PHP, ASP, Java, Ruby on Rails…), Web application architectures and their dedicated tools regularly experience major advancements and breakthroughs. For two years, we have seen a new wave of technologies coming, transforming the landscape of Web applications. Unlike RIA or AJAX before, there is no well defined name yet for this new trend. We will call it "MV* client-side architectures". Here is the main principle: the server no…

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