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Software Engineers All!
Faking a CS degree will get you fired. Falsely claiming to be a software engineer will get you — wait, is that even possible?
Interview With Ward Cunningham
The creator of the Wiki dishes on the Wiki, Wikipedia's policies, OO design, technical debt, CoffeeScript and Perl, how to survive as a veteran programmer, and doing the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Testing OO Systems, Part 1
OO tests stimulate an object and observe that object's behavior. The tests do not look at the object's state to judge whether or not the test succeeds, they just look at the object's behavior. When I call dog.expressHappiness(), my test succeeds when I observe that wagTail() is called. I would never look inside the dog at the isHappy field.
The New Native Languages
D and Go are at the forefront of a new generation of native languages emerging in the space between C and C++.
Kernels, Contexts, Threads, and Extensible Database Architecture
If you are building a new database management system or simply want to write better database applications, you should be aware of the extensible architecture of operating systems and database managers.
Design News
RIM BlackBerry 10 Platform Beta Arrives
New WebWorks SDK for HTML5/CSS3 and a native SDK (APIs)
M2M
Wireless Technology is Revolutionizing Transportation
New Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications
Compute resources now straddle processors and HD graphics drivers
JReport 11: Data Visualization Just Got Slicker
Java reporting with live charting functions including motion, real-time, and scrollable charts.
Qt 5 Alpha Launches: Fluid Touch Experiences
Widgets and classes waning, as Qt Quick now waxing
U3-X: Move Over Segway
Honda debuts its U3-X Personal Mobility Concept, based on ASIMO technology, in France
Sparx Unveils Enterprise Architect 9.3
Significant alignment towards ArchiMate 2.0 independent modeling language
2012 Intel Science Talent Search Winners
GrammaTech Widens "Visual Views" Into Source Code Complexities
Software architecture visualization system scales to millions of lines of code
Tiggzi "Plug-in Architecture" Builds API Anthology
Cross-platform mobile app development with prepackaged APIs and services catalog and secure authentication support
Events of Interest
May 29-31, San Francisco, CA. Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Bellevue, WA. AMD Fusion12 Developer Summit
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 26-29, Boston, MA. 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 9-12, San Francisco, CA. JAX Conference - Java, Cloud, Android, Agile
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
August 6-10, Redmond, WA. Visual Studio Live
August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe
August 27-30, San Francisco, CA. VMworld 2012
September 11-13, San Francisco, CA. Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2012)
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 29-30, San Francisco, CA. MySQL Connect Conference
September 30-October 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 23-25, Ludwigsburg, Germany. EclipseCon Europe 2012
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
December 10-14, Orlando, FL. Visual Studio Live
Best of the Web
What the New iPad and iOS 5.1 Mean for Developers
The new display is gorgeous. But local storage for HMTL5 is currently broken on the new iPad and performance of some apps is slower. Here's a deep dive into the issues, including benchmarks and analysis.
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
