Do All Roads Lead Back to SQL?
After distancing themselves from SQL, NoSQL products are moving towards transactional models as "NewSQL" gains popularity. What happened? - Database
Articles
Developer's Reading List
Ruby, Python, ASP.NET, Android development, PDF, and more. - Tools
Working with Bindings in WCF 4.5
You can easily add more features and customization to the binding framework in the latest release of Windows Communication Foundation - .NET
Guerilla Improvement: Getting Started in DevOps Without Buy-In
DevOps need not be a top-down mandate to succeed. With these steps, developers and operations staff can lead the way implementing DevOps techniques and later show the organizational benefits to management. - Design
Visual Studio 2013 Asynchronous Debugging
New features introduced in Visual Studio 2013 solve many of the biggest problems encountered when debugging asynchronous code. - .NET
UML 2.5: Do You Even Care?
Scott argues that while the OMG has been successful in marketing UML, it's been less successful in producing something people find useful. - Design
Understanding What Big Data Can Deliver
It's easy to err by pushing data to fit a projected model. Insights come, however, from accepting the data's ability to depict what is going on, without imposing an a priori bias. - Database
A Better Syntax For Unit Tests
Emerging frameworks with elegant syntax make complex tests far easier to read and write. - Design
Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Review
Many useful additions make this an attractive release, but writing Windows Store apps remains clumsy work. - Tools
Events of Interest
December 11. Santa Clara, CA. Standards for Free and Open-Source Software Governance Workshop
March 11-14, 2014. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference 2014 JavaScript and Beyond
March 17-20, 2014. San Francisco, CA EclipseCon 2014
March 17-21, 2014. San Francisco, CA. Game Developers Conference (GDC 2014)
March 24-27, 2014. San Jose, CA. 2014 GPU Technology Conference
March 31-April 4, 2014. Las Vegas, NV. Interop Las Vegas
March 31-April 1, 2014. Las Vegas, NV. InformationWeek Conference
March 31-April 3, 2014. San Jose, CA. EE Live! (Electronics Engineering Live!)
July 28-August 1, 2014. Orlando, FL. Agile2014 Orlando
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
