Dr. Dobb's Tools Blogs

Agile Certifications Are Actively Destructive

Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:45:00 -0400

Is it even possible to assess competence in agile development with a test?

Don't Develop GUI Tests, Teach Your App To Test Itself!

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:09:00 -0400

While developing native GTK- and Cocoa-based versions of the Plastic GUI, my team and I faced the challenge of developing a new test suite.

My Big Company Code Interview

Wed, 09 Apr 2014 07:36:00 -0400

It's been years since I gave up on chat interviews. It just seems like these don't work so well — we all feel like we are insightful judges of candidate quality, but somehow the people we hire just don't always turn out as well as we hope.

You Can't Impose An Agile Process

Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:35:00 -0500

To be effective, select your tools and develop your own processes

BodyCom Development Kit

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:27:00 -0400

Use your body's electric field to authenticate

Continuous Debugging

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:55:20 -0500

I propose that the next generation of IDEs create an environment of continuous debugging, to be integrated into the continuous integration paradigm. In other words, from the moment I begin coding in an editor, I want the IDE to enter debug mode, attempting to execute the project and update its execution state while I type.

Home Thermostat Management from the Cloud

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:20:00 -0400

Arrayent's technology was recently embedded in an Internet-enabled thermostat from Hunter Fan.

Remote Mobile Debugging in Firefox 15

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:02:41 -0400

Firefox 15 has a cool new remote debugging feature for mobile developers.

Wall Street and the Mismanagement of Software

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:47:00 -0400

How Knight Capital becomes a knight errant when it came to software design and delivery.

Exercise While You Code

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:36:00 -0400

Interview with Andrew Reese, who works in secure program coding, and is the grandson of the inventor of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup

Is the Future Fine-Grained Or Coarse-Grained Parallelism?

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:37:00 -0400

Coarse-grained parallelism might well be on the cusp of wide popularity, but multithreading is sure to become integral to most programming.

Measuring Performance for Analytics, Decision Support, and the Data Warehouse

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:03:00 -0400

The Transaction Processing Council (TPC) produces specifications for benchmarks to compare hardware and software configurations used for applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support.

C++11: unique_ptr

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:37:00 -0400

There are a lot of great features in C++11, but unique_ptr stands out in the area of code hygiene. Simply put, this is a magic bullet for dynamically created objects.

100 GB to 30,000 GB: Size, Speed, and Benchmarks

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:43:00 -0400

Performance, data integrity, and ease of use are key characteristics to look for when comparing database systems.

Easy-to-Use ARM System on a Board

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Raspberry Pi makes creating and programming ARM-based PCs trivially easy and a great deal of fun

Java 7u4, JavaFX 2.1, and NetBeans 7.1.2

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:35:59 -0400

Garbage First (G1) garbage collector, Mac support, a brand new JVM implementation, and more goodies.

techBASIC 2.0 Now Available

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:35:25 -0400

techBASIC is a really powerful platform for students and individuals interested in learning how to program using Post PC hardware.

Visual Studio 11: The Early Release

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:23:00 -0400

In this article, I'll show you how a little thing like a lambda can make a big difference in your coding style.

Android on Android

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:10:06 -0500

The PC is the new mainframe, and the tablet is the new PC.

Iterators and iostreams

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:00:00 -0500

In a previous post, I bemoaned the fact that the C++ iterators that perform stream I/O use the insertion and extraction operators, making them unsuitable for binary data compression. It looks like I spoke too soon.

Keeping A Healthy Tech Diet

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:33:13 -0500

Having spent the last six months using iOS as my primary mobile platform, I decided to live in the Android world for a spell.

MPLabX on Linux

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:26:00 -0500

An MPLAB project walk through

Supercomputing, The Cloud, Big Data, and NoSQL

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:54:00 -0500

Sometimes technology that has become trendy is a branch on an evolutionary tree; other times it's a revolutionary departure from the long-established status quo.

techBASIC and Seeed Studio's HiJack Dev Kit

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:32:11 -0500

Coding in a Post-PC World, Part 4

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:44:31 -0500

I am a big fan of writing code from a tablet. Laptops can't beat the battery life a tablet provides, nor can laptops compete with tablets on size and weight comparisons.