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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.
Thriving Among the APIs
You're about to start work on designing and publishing your product's API. Now what?
Building Node.js Projects in Visual Studio
Developing server-side apps with the popular Node.js framework can now be done with the full support of Visual Studio IntelliSense, debugging, and project management.
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.
Tools News
Application Intelligence For Advanced Dummies
Who wouldn't want a view across all aspects of digital performance in ultra large scale deployments?
Devart dbForge Studio For MySQL With Phrase Completion
An updated dbForge Studio for MySQL with enhanced command-line interface
Parasoft DevTest Shifts To Continuous
Parasoft DTP 5.1 includes smarter Process Intelligence Engine (PIE)
A Datacenter Operating System For Data Developers
With a DCOS, developers and operators no longer need to focus on individual virtual or physical machines
XMind 6 Public Beta Now Available
The public beta of XMind 6 is now available
New Relic Continues Developer Data Apps Push
Synthetics' doors are officially open to everyone
When Modeling Gets Rich, Embedded (And Almost Chocolaty)
Embeddable version of Embed MetaEdit+ modeling and code-generation tool
AWS Lambda: A New Event-Driven Compute Service
New compute service runs code in response to events for "dynamic" cloud applications
Free Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool 2014
A systematic way to find design-level security and privacy weaknesses in systems
Developer Preview of CouchDB 2.0 Document Database
Horizontal scalability and distributed workloads
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