Blogs

May 20, 2013

Expanding VTACH

The last few weeks, I've been building vtach — a Verilog implementation of CARDIAC, the old paper-based demonstration computer from Bell Labs.

May 17, 2013

Aliasing Is Particularly Troublesome With Vector Elements

I would like to continue our discussion with a particularly nasty case in which the result is not well defined.

May 12, 2013

Troubleshooting Verilog

I want to squash a bug as a way to show how you "debug" Verilog hardware designs (or, at least, one way to do so)




Dealing With All Our Stuff

Unneeded bits cost energy and mind space. Let's keep 'em to a minimum. - Development Tools

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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

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

Microsoft TypeScript: The Lay of the Land

By creating a language that adds types to JavaScript, Microsoft made it easier to write complex Web apps, do compile-time syntax checking, and get better coding support in Visual Studio. - Web Development

Making APIs Attractive to Developers

Some simple, but important, steps make it easy for developers to choose your API for their apps. - Design

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.

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HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)

HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)

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Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU

All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM

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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.

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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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Events of Interest

May 28-31. Boston, MA. AnDevCon Android Developer Conference

May 28-30. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference

June 4-5, Santa Clara, CA. JAXConf 2013 (free)

June 10-14. New York, NY. QCon

June 12. Chicago, IL. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference: for Developers, by Developers

June 13. San Francisco, CA. HBaseCon

June 13-14. Santa Clara, CA. Gradle Summit 2013

June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference

June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference

June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013

July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013

July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit

August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo

September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)

September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013

October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013

October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp


Videos of Past Events

March 2013. GPU Technology Conference

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

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