Dr. Dobb's Open Source

RIM Goes Open Source For BlackBerry 10 Native SDK

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:50:00 -0500

New social platform SDK and BlackBerry Theme Studio toolkit all announced at DevCon Europe symposium

Is Nginx Scalability Beating Apache?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:45:00 -0500

Open source web server enjoys growth among web developers

Working with Dropbox

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:48:00 -0500

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

Project of the Month: TestNG

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:31:00 -0500

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.

WANdisco and Jenkins: Continuous Integration Is Served

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:03:00 -0500

Companies team to provide professional support for Jenkins with uberSVN

Bridging Git Over Open Source and Commercial

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:42:00 -0500

AccuRev's Kando enterprise security and compliance platform

Keeping A Healthy Tech Diet

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:33:13 -0500

Having spent the last six months using iOS as my primary mobile platform, I decided to live in the Android world for a spell.

Using Bluetooth

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:33:00 -0500

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.

Pentaho Open Sources Big Data Offerings

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:43:00 -0500

Free Apache license for data integration tool

Developers Poised For Open Source webOS By September

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:04:00 -0500

Ruby On Rails 3.2 Hits New Track Times

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:04:00 -0500

New iteration of open source web app framework engineered to work faster in dev mode

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

Low-Power ARM-Based Build Server Delivers

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:24:05 -0500

Nvidia's low-power, low-cost, ARM-based Trim-Slice is easy to set up and run, and it delivers as a build server.

Language of the Month: JRuby

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:29:00 -0500

Ahead-of-time compilation, metaprogramming Java objects, real threads, and the ability to call Java directly from Ruby code are all ways in which JRuby improves on the standard Ruby distribution.

JQuery Rewritten To Create jQ.Mobi For iOS and Android

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:53:00 -0500

Open source project presents optimized framework for HTML5 Mobile

MPLabX on Linux

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:26:00 -0500

An MPLAB project walk through

Iron Speed Database Apps Go Mobile

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:52:00 -0500

Full-text database search capability plus enhanced charting features

Azure Ups Open Source Volume

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:46:00 -0500

Interoperability addressed, plus "improved" management portal

FuseSource Integrates Integration Reserves

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

Online subscription center for enterprise developers and architects

IBM Releases Eclipse EGL Web Developer Tools

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:45:00 -0500

First open source version of the EGL development tool

OpenSSL Closes Security Hole Six Pack

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:52:00 -0500

Cryptographic protocol flaws brought into question

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

techBASIC and Seeed Studio's HiJack Dev Kit

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:32:11 -0500

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?

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