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Windows 8 and Metro: The World Without Browser Plug-ins
Abandoning plug-ins will make browsers better and coding easier
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 Rise and Fall of Programming Languages in 2011
As mobile devices become a major development platform, scripting languages are beginning to fall out of favor.
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
Cross-Platform C/C++ Development with Eclipse CDT
Using Eclipse as a universal C++ IDE for Linux and Windows requires navigating a few issues in setup and functionality. Here's how.
.NET News
Microsoft Opens C++ Extension To Other Compilers
Visual Studio 11 developers offered route to more GPU power
DataStax: New Windows and OS X Support For Cassandra
Cassandra healthy due to linear scalability, multi-data center support, and dynamic schema capabilities
Hydra 4 Sharpens Its Teeth, Breathes New Fire
Major new release for .NET/Delphi cross-platform application framework
French Mobile App Tester Champions 'le Lifecycle'
TMap Life Cycle — structured risk-based software testing
Windows Azure On Cloud9, IDE
End-to-end Node.js development option
AT&T Developer Diagnostic Tool Tunes and Tweaks
Deep insight optimization that works as a two-part tool
New SDK for Microsoft Kinect Available Feb 1 2012
Promise of no license fees for ongoing use
JQuery Rewritten To Create jQ.Mobi For iOS and Android
Open source project presents optimized framework for HTML5 Mobile
UmbrellaSDK: "Completely" Cloud-Based IDE For Mobile
Cross-platform mobile development tool that resides in the browser
Iron Speed Database Apps Go Mobile
Full-text database search capability plus enhanced charting features
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 19-23, Denver, CO. DrupalCon
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
August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe
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.
