Dr. Dobb's RSS Feed http://drdobbs.com/ Dr. Dobb's Copyright 2011, United Business Media. en-us Node.js: Doing Rather Well, Actually http://drdobbs.com/jvm/232600655 Software gains endorsements from Microsoft and Yahoo! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:58:00 -0500 Port of Call http://drdobbs.com/blogs/embedded-systems/232600640 If your application doesn’t demand anything more sophisticated than a serial port, a USB to serial converter really isn’t a bad option. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:17:00 -0500 Xamarin Climbs To MonoTouch 5.2 Release http://drdobbs.com/testing/232600632 New testing framework, memory profiler, and rapid UI creation library for iPhone and iPad development Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:00 -0500 RIM Goes Open Source For BlackBerry 10 Native SDK http://drdobbs.com/open-source/232600630 New social platform SDK and BlackBerry Theme Studio toolkit all announced at DevCon Europe symposium Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:50:00 -0500 Iterators and iostreams http://drdobbs.com/blogs/cpp/232600539 In a previous post, I bemoaned the fact that the C++ iterators that perform stream I/O use the insertion and extraction operators, making them unsuitable for binary data compression. It looks like I spoke too soon. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:00:00 -0500 Transactional Synchronization in Haswell http://drdobbs.com/go-parallel/blogs/parallel/232600598 Intel TSX provides a set of instruction-set extensions that allow programmers to specify regions of code for transactional synchronization Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:43:00 -0500 Divide and Conquer -- If You're Patient Enough http://drdobbs.com/blogs/cpp/232600538 Optimization is not always a synonym for "making a program run faster." Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:53:00 -0500 Is Nginx Scalability Beating Apache? http://drdobbs.com/open-source/232600531 Open source web server enjoys growth among web developers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:45:00 -0500 Working with Dropbox http://drdobbs.com/tools/232600482 Dropbox client applets allow only basic functionality for interacting with the file storage service. To get the full breadth of capabilities, you'll need to use their SDK and write your own code Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:48:00 -0500 AppFog Storms Data Flow and Load Testing http://drdobbs.com/cloud/232600466 Added third-party developer tools for data management and testing in cloud Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:44:00 -0500 HP Offers Consumption-Based Cloud App Testing http://drdobbs.com/cloud/232600458 Performance validation in an on-demand model for pre-deployement analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:14:00 -0500 Microsoft Opens C++ Extension To Other Compilers http://drdobbs.com/cpp/232600442 Visual Studio 11 developers offered route to more GPU power Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:31:00 -0500 Project of the Month: TestNG http://drdobbs.com/testing/232600389 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. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:31:00 -0500 Bubble, BubbleSort, and Trouble http://drdobbs.com/go-parallel/blogs/parallel/232600358 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. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:29:00 -0500 DataStax: New Windows and OS X Support For Cassandra http://drdobbs.com/tools/232600357 Cassandra healthy due to linear scalability, multi-data center support, and dynamic schema capabilities Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:06:00 -0500 WANdisco and Jenkins: Continuous Integration Is Served http://drdobbs.com/open-source/232600356 Companies team to provide professional support for Jenkins with uberSVN Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:03:00 -0500 The Need to Rewrite Established Algorithms http://drdobbs.com/parallel/232500147 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 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:01:00 -0500 Hydra 4 Sharpens Its Teeth, Breathes New Fire http://drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/232600273 Major new release for .NET/Delphi cross-platform application framework Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:22:00 -0500 Compuware Updates Mainframe Workbench http://drdobbs.com/tools/232600272 New programmer tools for development and testing in mainframe arenas Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:48:00 -0500 Arduino IDEs http://drdobbs.com/blogs/embedded-systems/232600271 Last week, I mentioned the Arduino. If you want a more powerful IDE, there is an answer. It turns out the Arduino bootloader protocol is exactly the AVRISP protocol. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:50:00 -0500 Bridging Git Over Open Source and Commercial http://drdobbs.com/open-source/232600197 AccuRev's Kando enterprise security and compliance platform Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:42:00 -0500 New C/C++ Interpreter: Ch 7.0 and Embedded Ch 7.0 http://drdobbs.com/tools/232600196 SoftIntegration releases interpreter for cross-platform scripting Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:34:00 -0500 Keeping A Healthy Tech Diet http://drdobbs.com/blogs/tools/232600021 Having spent the last six months using iOS as my primary mobile platform, I decided to live in the Android world for a spell. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:33:13 -0500 Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 and Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Applications: Optimize Up To the Node Level http://drdobbs.com/go-parallel/blogs/parallel/232600105 Intel Cluster Studio XE 2012 provides an MPI hybrid development suite that targets developers on high-performance clusters. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:55:00 -0500 Canadian Dragons: Komodo 7 Is Snappy IDE http://drdobbs.com/cloud/232600103 Collaborative editing and cloud development in Mojolicious and many others Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:41:00 -0500