Why Aren't There Better Testing Tools?
Static analysis, UI record and playback, and load testing dominate today's testing tools. Just like they did in the 1990s. Where's the progress? - Testing
Articles
Access Data Items In Ancestor Stack Frames Safely
Allowing the code of one frame to recall the retained data of ancestor frames without harming efficiency, thread safety, or recurrence. - C/C++
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The best testing tools of the past year - Jolt Awards
Test-Driving Development for the Firefox OS Phone
Mozilla's Firefox OS delivers an easy way to develop and market apps for Android and the upcoming Mozilla-specific phone. Mike Riley takes a first look at developing apps for the platform. - Mobile
Working with TypeScript in Visual Studio 2012
Using Visual Studio makes working with TypeScript easy and helps reveal subtleties of the language implementation and code generation. - .NET
Supercharging ASP.NET Web Form Apps
With the introduction of the ASP.NET Web API in ASP.NET 4.5, it is now possible to add advanced client-side functionality to existing sites - Web Development
Dealing With All Our Stuff
Unneeded bits cost energy and mind space. Let's keep 'em to a minimum. - Tools
Keccak: The New SHA-3 Encryption Standard
After years of testing and analysis, the U.S. government selected the Keccak algorithm to be the new SHA-3 encryption standard. Here is how it works and how to use it. - Security
Can Google's Dart Hit Its Target?
How can the fast, boring language from Google be a viable solution? - Web Development
Best of the Web
First C Compiler Now on Github
The earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie has been published on the repository.
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU
All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM
Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
How to Select a PaaS Partner
Eventually, the vast majority of Web applications will run on a platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, vendor's infrastructure. To help sort out the options, we sent out a matrix with more than 70 decision points to a variety of PaaS providers.
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July 2012. Java Language Summit
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March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
