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)




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Why Aren't There Better Testing Tools?

May 21, 2013

Static analysis, UI record and playback, and load testing dominate today's testing tools. Just like they did in the 1990s. Where's the progress? - Testing

Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools

May 21, 2013

The best testing tools of the past year - Jolt Awards

Test-Driving Development for the Firefox OS Phone

May 21, 2013

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

May 14, 2013

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

May 13, 2013

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

Dealing With All Our Stuff

May 13, 2013

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

Keccak: The New SHA-3 Encryption Standard

May 07, 2013

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?

May 07, 2013

How can the fast, boring language from Google be a viable solution? - Web Development

Microsoft TypeScript: The Lay of the Land

May 06, 2013

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

April 30, 2013

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

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