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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
The Best of 2011
The most popular articles of last year from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces picked out for your thoughtful consideration by our staff
Version Numbers: Sequenced Meaninglessness
There once was a time that version numbers on software technology communicated useful information
Megatrend: Cheap RAM Reshaping All of Computing
The ability to put massive amounts of RAM in servers is changing what we can do in real time and how we address business issues. Every developer is being affected
Project of the Month: OpenStack, A Universal Cloud Front End
OpenStack provides an easy-to-use GUI front end and a command line front end for all major cloud platforms and all major VM formats
Database News
Iron Speed Database Apps Go Mobile
Full-text database search capability plus enhanced charting features
How To Push Database Tables Into Cloud Apps
Rollbase 3.3 offers minimal coding and no need to migrate any data
IBM Releases Eclipse EGL Web Developer Tools
First open source version of the EGL development tool
Vulcanized Rubber Elasticity For Java App Hosting
Jelastic PaaS bounces with open source Apache CouchDB
Oracle Revs Up Solaris Studio 12.3
Software developers offered new code analysis tools and extra speed via advanced compiler technology
Oracle Tuxedo 11g Dresses For Dinner
Optimized integration with Exalogic Elastic Cloud, better migration for mainframe apps
Lua and Ruby Languages Added To ITTIA DB SQL
Dynamic scripting languages help customize apps when code is executed at runtime
McObject: Version 4.5 Users Served
eXtremeDB embedded database gains speed
Quest's Quest: The Developer-DBA Big Data Skillset Problem
Quest positions Toad for Cloud Databases as big data panacea
Pagoda Box Enshrines Multiple Tiers
PHP PaaS launches at ZendCon
Events of Interest
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 2-3, London, U.K. Moblie 360 Live
April 2-4, San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Where Conference
April 10-12, Santa Clara, CA. Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
May 7-11, St. Petersburg, FL. SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference 2012
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
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
Compiling the JavaScript Engines
With growing demand for out-of-browser JavaScript (e.g., server JavaScript), a good knowledge of JavaScript engines is becoming more important.
