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Bubble, BubbleSort, and Trouble

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:29:00 -0500

Bubblesort was the first sorting algorithm that I ever learned (and I programmed it in COBOL). It is easy to code and simple to understand.

The Need to Rewrite Established Algorithms

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:01:00 -0500

Parallel architectures, like other hardware advances before them, require us to rewrite algorithms and data structures — especially the old standbys that have served us well

Hydra 4 Sharpens Its Teeth, Breathes New Fire

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:22:00 -0500

Major new release for .NET/Delphi cross-platform application framework

Rebuilding the Tower of Hanoi

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:37:00 -0500

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.

Windows 8 and Metro: The World Without Browser Plug-ins

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:36:00 -0500

Abandoning plug-ins will make browsers better and coding easier

Welcome to the Parallel Jungle!

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:57:00 -0500

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.

Nvidia Speeds GPU Computations For Geophysicists

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:53:00 -0500

Automated performance for CUDA C/C++/Fortran application acceleration with extra signal processing

Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers Begin Their Ascent

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:55:00 -0500

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

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:18:00 -0500

The latest books off the press cover code readability, Java performance, hunting for and prying open security defects, game testing, architecture, and even OpenVMS.

Capacitive Coupling Demo

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:40:00 -0500

The CoreInfo 3.03 Utility Provides Detailed Intel Instruction Sets

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:05:00 -0500

The newest version of CoreInfo provides a detailed summary of all the instructions sets that the CPUs found on the system support.

Source Code Analysis: Spellchecker-Style

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:33:00 -0500

Klocwork 9.5 is on-the-fly source code analysis

Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part II: Advanced Initialization

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:52:00 -0500

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

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:23:00 -0500

Give up your sequential linked lists in favor of tree structures for all of your unordered data when processing that data in parallel.

Supercomputing, The Cloud, Big Data, and NoSQL

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:54:00 -0500

Sometimes technology that has become trendy is a branch on an evolutionary tree; other times it's a revolutionary departure from the long-established status quo.

It's the User

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:33:00 -0500

Historically speaking, the most profound change in the way we build software today is in how we care for the user.

FuseSource Integrates Integration Reserves

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:59:00 -0500

Online subscription center for enterprise developers and architects

The Rise and Fall of Programming Languages in 2011

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:45:00 -0500

As mobile devices become a major development platform, scripting languages are beginning to fall out of favor.

Destructors Considered Harmful

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:44:00 -0500

Allocating dynamic resources may seem hazardous — but freeing them is the real hazard.

Oracle Bakes NetBeans IDE 7.1 For Better UIs

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:12:00 -0500

First IDE to support latest Java specs and JavaFX 2.0 and JDK7

IDEs Are Dead. Long Live the IDE!

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:45:00 -0500

How will developers' favorite working environments evolve in a cloud-based, post-PC world?

Cutting Code While Controlling Cost, Capacity, and Consumption

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:16:00 -0500

Jinspired releases JXInsight/OpenCore 6.3 for application performance management

The Best of 2011

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:17:00 -0500

The most popular articles of last year from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces picked out for your thoughtful consideration by our staff

What's the Best Paradigm for Data Compression Routines?

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:20:00 -0500

General purpose data compression routines tend to be used on binary streams of data, either from files or in-memory objects. So what is the best general paradigm for input and output when compressing data: iostreams or iterator?

Cross-Platform C/C++ Development with Eclipse CDT

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:49:00 -0500

Using Eclipse as a universal C++ IDE for Linux and Windows requires navigating a few issues in setup and functionality. Here's how.