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Dr. Dobb's Archive
On this site is archived all the content from Dr. Dobb's that was published on the Web through December 31, 2014.
Jolt Awards 2015: Coding Tools
The best tools available for creating, testing, and debugging code.
The Long Death of Project Hosting Sites
Last month, Microsoft and Google bypassed their own code hosts to post major code projects on GitHub. The once-favored hosts have begun a long, familiar decline.
Building Portable Games in C++
The cocos-2d-x open source framework can be used to build games, apps, and other interactive software in C++. Here's a hands-on guide to using it to write and port games.
Program Configuration in Python
Despite numerous options for passing config data to a program, there is still a need for a utility to handle complex hierarchical configuration and locate config files on distributed system. Here is one.
Open Source News
Google's Data Processing Model Hardens Up
An open source cloud Dataflow SDK for Java
Mirantis Releases Free Developer Edition
Mirantis OpenStack Express bids to accelerates developer adoption with OpenStack tutorials
Docker Clocks In On Azure
Microsoft re-engineers "merged code" to play more catch up on open platforms
Free Zulu Certified Builds of OpenJDK
Open source Java runtime from Azul Systems
PHP and HipHop Virtual Machine Combined
Dynamic content built on HHVM can see an average response time increase of 560%
Developer Preview of CouchDB 2.0 Document Database
Horizontal scalability and distributed workloads
Microsoft Begins Open Sourcing .NET, No Really, Honest
Sweeping changes in Microsoft tools division
Scotland's "Live" Code Longshanks Beater
Beats English pretenders to the crown with multi-platform approach
Pure JavaScript Meteor 1.0 Hits Earth
An open source platform for building web and mobile apps in pure JavaScript
Mirantis OpenStack 6.0 With Juno
An enterprise-grade zero lock-in OpenStack infrastructure in minutes
Events of Interest
December 11-12. Washington, D.C. ModevCon
March 2-6, 2015 London, UK. QCon London
March 5-8, 2015. Recife, Brazil. Tropical Ruby
March 17-19, 2015. Boston, MA. O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference
March 23-24, 2015. Palo Alto, CA. Evans Data's 11th Annual Developer Relations Conference
April 8-16, 2015. Montreal, Canada. PyCon 2015
April 27-30, 2015. Baltimore, MD. 11th Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference
May 4-8, 2015. Chicago, IL. Microsoft Ignite Conference
May 12-14, 2015. Zaragoza, Spain.Protocols Plugfest Europe 2015
Videos of Past Events
September 2014. Atlassian Summit 2014
September 2013. JavaOne
June 2013. JAXConf 2013
May 2013. Google I/O
October 2012. JAXLondon 2012
September 2012. Strangeloop
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
