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Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers Begin Their Ascent
As the cloud is quickly demonstrating, small, seemingly underpowered servers are quite enough for most development tasks. Buying one of these low-cost, low-power units makes clear how much developer-friendlier they are than datacenter solutions
Developer's Reading List
The latest books off the press cover code readability, Java performance, hunting for and prying open security defects, game testing, architecture, and even OpenVMS.
Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part II: Advanced Initialization
Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded.
Linked Lists Are, Like, So Last Century
Give up your sequential linked lists in favor of tree structures for all of your unordered data when processing that data in parallel.
It's the User
Historically speaking, the most profound change in the way we build software today is in how we care for the user.
Design News
Nvidia Speeds GPU Computations For Geophysicists
Automated performance for CUDA C/C++/Fortran application acceleration with extra signal processing
Capacitive Coupling Demo
Source Code Analysis: Spellchecker-Style
Klocwork 9.5 is on-the-fly source code analysis
FuseSource Integrates Integration Reserves
Online subscription center for enterprise developers and architects
Oracle Bakes NetBeans IDE 7.1 For Better UIs
First IDE to support latest Java specs and JavaFX 2.0 and JDK7
Cutting Code While Controlling Cost, Capacity, and Consumption
Jinspired releases JXInsight/OpenCore 6.3 for application performance management
IBM Five in Five
IBM's "5 in 5" is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live, and interact during the next five years
Unifying Developers and Tools In ALM Nirvana
Interoperability functions ramped up for Borland StarTeam 12.0 from Micro Focus
Real Software Pours Cocoa For Hot Graphics
Real Studio 2011 release 4 has more than 200 improvements
Steering Agile Through A Rally Course
Rally Portfolio Manager navigate Agile development execution
Events of Interest
February 1-3, Miami, FL. DevCon5 Road Show for HTML5 designers and developers.
February 13-16, Santa Clara, CA. Cloud Connect
February 26-29, San Francisco, CA. SPTechCon (Sharepoint Technology Conference)
March 5-6, London, UK. QCon London
March 5-9, San Francisco, CA. Game Developers Conference
March 24-28, San Jose, CA. CGO '12. 10th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization.
March 25-30, Potsdam, Germany. AOSD '12. Aspect-oriented Software Development.
March 26-29, Reston, VA. EclipseCon 2012.
April 2-4, San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Where Conference
May 14-17, Bay Area, California. AnDevCon III (Android Developer Conference)
May 29-31, Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond, San Francisco, CA.
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 30 - Oct 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
Best of the Web
How Debuggers Work
A detailed series of articles explaining how debuggers work their magic.
Custom Development Becoming Key Strategic Differentiator
At financial services firms, developers rule once again!
Learn Git Fast
A series of approachable, to-the-point tutorials on how to use Git.
A Layman's Introduction to Formal Grammar
For an easy-to-understand explanation of formal grammar in one concise essay, start with this.
A Deep Look at Font Rasterization
How fonts are rasterized and optimized for display (with an emphasis on open source tools).
