(Dbaharrison) Hot on the heels of the last post is a quick note on JQ – thats not oracle job queues before you ask it’s a unix utility that can parse json files and pull out individual elements – think of it as sed/awk for json files.

(Matt Busche) Spock is an excellent test framework that is built on top of Groovy and can be used to replace JUnit for testing Java classes. The majority of spock syntax is simple, but sometimes we run into issues where it is difficult to mock a class. Session is one of those examples.

(Pankaj Kumar Choudhary) In this article you will learn about jQueryUI.

(Justin Makeig) Most dynamic languages allow you to evaluate a string of code, for example, eval in JavaScript or Python. Eval is powerful (and mandatory) if you’re building an IDE. However, the benefits are usually greatly outweighed by the risks.

(arjunaraneta) Java is a programming language expressly designed for use in the distributed environment of the Internet. It was designed to have the “look and feel” of the C++ language, but it is simpler to use than C++ and enforces an object-oriented programming model.

(Mattias Petter Johansson) It’s a bit unclear what you mean when you say “what can I do”. If you’re referring to specific language features that are available to Java or C++ that are not available to JavaScript, it would be a very long list of detailed things like C++ templates and Java Generics.

(Manas Mohapatra) This article describes how to upload files through jQuery AJAX in ASP.NET MVC.

(Troy W. Locke) I have always been primarily a backend developer, I love OOP, and try my best to follow all the best principles such as Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Separation of Concerns, and even the Law of Demeter when I design and write software.

(Vithal Wadje) In this article we will learn how to bind strongly typed DropDownList using JSON In ASP.NET MVC 5.

(AJSON) A previous article I wrote on ‘DBA Skills for Developers’ gave a round up of various tips and tricks to make the life of a developer who had ‘inherited’ the task of in-house DBA hopefully a bit better. I was going to expand that article and add information on importing data to SQL server, bu