Farewell, Devil's Advocate
One of the finest writers and certainly the brightest wit in all of programming left a remarkable legacy of insightful, mordant, and densely rich commentary. - Architecture & Design
Articles
Jolt Awards 2014: The Best Programmer Libraries
Astonishing collections of software bundled with superb design and coding tools - Jolt Awards
NoSQL with MySQL
Oracle added NoSQL capabilities to the InnoDB engine in MySQL 5.6, providing a 9x improvement in transaction performance. Here's how to use the NoSQL features. - Database
Continuous Development: The New Maintenance Reality
The Internet of Things will add so much programmability to devices that keeping software current will become a never-ending task. - Design
Lightweight Virtual Environments in Python 3.4
Customizing Python's virtual environments for projects with conflicting library requirements or different Python versions is now easy in Python 3.3 and 3.4. - Design
Tail Call Optimization and Java
Java 8 requires functional languages to optimize their own tail calls for the time being. What exactly does that involve? - JVM Languages
Software Estimation: How Misperceptions Mean We Almost Always Get It Wrong
Why are we so woefully poor at estimating software projects? - Design
Android on x86: Java Native Interface and the Android Native Development Kit
JNI and the Android Native Development Kit work together to complete the mapping between Java and C/C++ and enhance performance - Design
How I Came to Write D
The path that led Walter Bright to write a language, now among the top 20 most used, began with curiosity — and an insult. - Design
Events of Interest
May 7-8. Santa Clara, CA. Internet of Things Developers Conference
May 7-8. Santa Clara, CA. Multicore Developers Conference
May 12-15. Houson, TX. TechEd
May 12-16. Atlanta, GA. OpenStack Summit
May 21-23. Menlo Park, CA. DConf 2014
May-June. Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester, Scotland. The UK Device Developers' Conference series
June 9-10. Stockholm, Sweden. Erlang User Conference
July 7-10. Berlin, Germany. UberConf Europe Java Ecosystem conference
July 28-August 1. Orlando, FL. Agile2014 Orlando
September 23-24. San Francisco, CA. Designers of Things Conference
November 4-5. London, England. Code Mesh Conference
Videos of Past Events
September 2013. JavaOne
September 2013. SpringOne 2GX
June 2013. JAXConf 2013
June 2013. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference
May 2013. Google I/O
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
October 2012. JAXLondon 2012
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
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
