Design
Design Feature Articles
Java EE 7: And Then What?
Enterprise Java is finally becoming the product it was originally intended to be.
Scala for C# Developers: A Tutorial
If you work with C#, you have already mixed object-oriented code with some aspects of functional programming. Why not master Scala?
APIs for Image-Capture Applications
TWAIN, WIA, and DirectShow are three popular APIs for imaging apps. How do they differ and which one should you pick?
Exceeding Supercomputer Performance with Intel Phi
Using MPI on inexpensive clusters of Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors can produce results that exceed the performance of today's high-end supercomputers.
Orthodoxy vs. Pragmatism, or How I Became a Better Developer
Few indeed are the practices that can be recommended universally. Wisdom suggests the humility of knowing this and applying it liberally.
Design News
1,700 Numerical Routines Parallelized for Intel Xeon Phi
NAG Library for Intel Xeon Phi launches
Expanding Vibrations In Haptic SDK For Games
Three developer platforms get access to Immersion Haptic SDK effects for Android games
Perforce Speeds Application Cadence
Filtered replication capabilities and task streams for rapid release cadences
Teen Computer Scientist Wins Big at ISEF
19-year-old Ionut Alexandru Budisteanu of Romania won the $75,000 Gordon E. Moore Award for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car.
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
Events of Interest
June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference
June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 24-28. San Jose, CA. 2013 USENIX Annual Technical 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
Ocotber 23-25. San Fransisco, CA. API Strategy and Practice Conference
October 28-30. London, United Kingdom. JAXLondon 2013 Big Data Conference
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
