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May 24, 2013

Game of Life — Using Threads and Lists, Part 3

If I'm programming my list-based version of Game of Life in the real world, how can I parallelize it when I am using a third-party provided data structure?

May 24, 2013

The Hazards of Remembering Positions in Vectors

Don't remember pointers, references, or iterators to vector elements until
 you're done putting new elements in the vector.

May 21, 2013

Java Apps on the Raspberry Pi

Here is an update on my ongoing project, where I use Java on a Raspberry Pi to control an Arduino, which in turn will control some other electrical device




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Retain/Recall Semantics in C++

May 23, 2013

Allowing the text of one frame to recall the retained data of ancestor frames without harming efficiency, thread safety, or recurrence. - C/C++

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

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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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