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Making APIs Attractive to Developers
Some simple, but important, steps make it easy for developers to choose your API for their apps.
The Clojure Philosophy
Simplicity, freedom to focus, empowerment, consistency, and clarity: Nearly every element of the Clojure programming language is designed to promote these goals.
Reusable Components Finally Arrive As Cloud-Based APIs
After 40 years in the desert of incompatibility and limited reuse, we have crossed the river Jordan.
Pulling Back from Windows 8
The lack of hardware sales, the deep dissatisfaction among consumers, and the lack of interest in Win8-specific development suggest that Microsoft needs an immediate restart.
Hadoop: The Lay of the Land
The core map-reduce framework for big data consists of several interlocking technologies. This first installment of our tutorial explains what Hadoop does and how the pieces fit together.
Design News
Drive-Thru Application Infrastructure Customization
Developer access to optimized infrastructure resources
Intel's Silvermont Microarchitecture
Silvermont features new multicore and system fabric architecture scalable up to eight cores, enabling greater performance for higher bandwidth, lower latency and more efficient out-of-order support for a better balanced and responsive system.
DreamFactory's Radically Simplified Mobile Development
New open-source platform for building secure mobile HTML5 and native apps
Research Robot SDK Builds Custom Robot Apps
Robot SDK Runs ROS OS
Solve for Tomorrow
Samsung has announced the winners of third annual Solve for Tomorrow contest, a nationwide $1M competition designed to raise enthusiasm for STEM education among U.S. public middle and high school students.
World's First 'Language-Aware' Source Code Merge Tool
Codice's Semantic Merge is a programming three-way merge tool with semantic support
Modernizing Apps On IBM zEnterprise
Micro Focus allows less experienced developers to apply the skills mainframe
Perceptual Computing
Using the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK 2013, developers can create applications that take advantage of the SDK’s core capabilities for handling close-range hand and finger tracking, speech recognition, face analysis, and augmented reality.
An API To Telco-Enhance Your App
Apigee launches API Exchange Platform
U.S. Defense Agency Feeds Python
Advanced Research Projects Agency gives $3 million for Python big data
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 13-14. 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
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.
