Thread Executors

This article by Javier Fernández González, author of Java 7 Concurrency Cookbook, will teach the readers to delegate the thread management to executors. They allow running, managing, and getting the results of concurrent tasks.

Getting Started

Mobile games have been the recent craze and with so many ways to monetize the popularity of these games.ShiVa3D gives developers the power to quickly develop the game once, but deploy to almost every popular mobile platform, which enables them to have greater distribution and a greater opportunity to sell games.

This article by Wade Tracy, author of Learning ShiVa3D Game Development, This article shows you how to install the tools that you will need and get basic objects into the game. We'll also briefly touch on a few topics, such as input and lighting that will be covered later, so that we can get a very rudimentary game up and running in this article itself!

Adding a security role

In this article by Ahmed Mohamed Rafik Moustafa, the author of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Security How-To, we will learn about securing our Dynamics AX 2012 environment with simple and practical steps.

Meet QlikView

Business Intelligence technologies are a must-have in every business to make informed decisions and keep up-to speed with the ever-evolving markets. QlikView’s disruptive technology makes it a key player and leader in the industry; with its flexibility and powerful analytics environment, building QlikView apps can be mastered by both, business users as well as developers.

In this article by Miguel García and Barry Harmsen, authors of QlikView 11 for Developers we will look at:

• What is QlikView?
• Exploring data with QlikView
• The technology and components behind QlikView
• HighCloud Airlines, and why QlikView might be just the tool they need

Prepare and Build

In this article by Alex Nuijten, Iloon Ellen-Wolff, and Learco Brizzi, authors of Oracle APEX Best Practices, we will discuss different aspects of setting up an Application Express (APEX) environment. Among others, we'll take a look at installing APEX, performing preparational tasks before actually building applications, and transforming the data model into initial screens.

Windows Azure Service Bus: Key Features

Windows Azure Service Bus offers features that are not offered by any other cloud platform on the market. One important feature is the Service Bus that enables you to connect your on-premise services to Windows Azure services and beyond. The Access Control Service enables you to easily authenticate users without having to write complex authentication code ourselves. By using Windows Identity Framework (WIF) and supporting identity providers such as Live ID, Yahoo, and Facebook, it will be easy to use these identity providers as the main authentication mechanism in our own services.

In this article by Riccardo Becker, author of Windows Azure programming patterns for Start-ups, we will provide a systematic guide on how to integrate with Facebook. AppFabric also contains AppFabric applications, an easy way to develop and deploy composite applications. Another interesting feature is the caching feature that AppFabric offers.

Managing Files

Talend Open Studio for Data Integration (TOS) is an open source graphical development environment for creating custom integrations between systems.

This article by Jonathan Bowen, author of Getting Started with Talend Open Studio for Data Integration, shows how to manage Files during integration jobs. We'll look at renaming, moving, copying, and deleting Files; how to timestamp a File; connecting to remote servers to FTP files; and zipping and unzipping Files.