Getting Back to Coding
Reducing tool complexity requires mercilessly applying YAGNI to your toolchain. Resist the siren songs of new, popular memes and the blandishments of vendors, and choose the tools that deliver only what you need. - Architecture & Design
Articles
Introduction to TypeScript
Microsoft’s alternative to JavaScript adds modularity, generics, and type information while maintaining JS source compatibility. - JVM Languages
Bit-Oriented I/O with Templates
Data-compression algorithms emit data in blocks of varying number of bits. Making these little blobs suitable for byte-level I/O requires some careful know-how. - C/C++
Tooling Up for the Marriage of the Internet of Things, Big Data, and Cloud Computing
Finding tools that will bridge IoT, machine-to-machine, and big data is no simple task. But some integrated solutions are beginning to appear. - Design
Coding for High-DPI Displays in Windows
Deliver crisp text and images on all Windows monitors, regardless of settings. - .NET
Just Let Me Code!
Managing the complexity of development toolchains — from SCM, to the build tools, to the testing, to the deployment stack — now so overwhelms the developer experience, it's hard to get any real programming done. - Tools
Pike Programming Language
A C-like language with all the OO trimmings, garbage collection, strong data types, and excellent string processing makes a powerful tool for Web programming. - Open Source
Programming for High-Res Displays in Windows
Deliver software containing crisp text and sharp images on multiple displays - .NET
Writing Build Scripts With Gradle
Even simple build scripts show the power and flexibility of the emerging new build tool for JVM projects. - JVM Languages
Events of Interest
August 7-8, San Francisco, CA. Distill 2014
August 20-22. Chicago, IL. CloudOpen North America
September 7-12. Bellevue, WA. CppCon
September 8-11. Dallas, TX. SpringOne 2GX
September 17-19. St. Louis, MO. Strangeloop
September 23-24. San Francisco, CA. Designers of Things Conference
October 9-10. Palo Alto, CA. Code Stars Summit
October 11-12. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
October 17-18. Austin, TX. CITCON (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference)
November 3-5. San Francisco, CA. QCon
November 4-5. London, England. Code Mesh Conference
November 17-21. Budapest, Hungary. ApacheCon Europe
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
