Articles
Project of the Month: TestNG
Not every coder uses xUnit frameworks for testing. Many prefer TestNG, which gets around xUnit limitations, supports testing at multiple levels (unit, functional, integration, end-to-end), and greatly facilitates data-driven tests. - Testing
Rebuilding the Tower of Hanoi
Sometimes seemingly serial computations may be coded with parallel algorithms if you can figure out how to present the final results in the proper order. - Parallel
Using Bluetooth
Trying to communicate with a remote device with no other familiar protocol? Bluetooth provides an easy answer with well-documented specs and straightforward programming APIs. - Mobile
Windows 8 and Metro: The World Without Browser Plug-ins
Abandoning plug-ins will make browsers better and coding easier - .NET
Welcome to the Parallel Jungle!
Herb Sutter dives into the repercussions of parallel's reach from mobile devices, to the desktop, to clusters, and — at the highest level of granularity — to the cloud. This welter of different parallel implementations presents significant challenges for programming. The free lunch of sequential programming is well and truly over. - Parallel
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 - Tools
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. - Tools
Low-Power ARM-Based Build Server Delivers
Nvidia's low-power, low-cost, ARM-based Trim-Slice is easy to set up and run, and it delivers as a build server. - Tools
