Dr. Dobb's Web Development Blogs

Continuous Debugging

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:55:20 -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.

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

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 13:03:00 -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.

Information Storage and Retrieval: From MEDLARS to Twitter

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:00:00 -0500

Each decade, technology breakthroughs update our lexicon with new words and phrases.

Network Discovery Tools: Putting DNS Service Discovery To Work

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:35:00 -0400

I will show you a little bit about how we use DNS-SD, and how you can put it to work effectively in your networks.

Free SMTP

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:45:00 -0400

Integral email is still a great feature, almost 40 years after it first showed up in UNIX.

OpenGL iPhone Games with Cocos2D Review

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:16:00 -0400

iOS developer Todd Moore has recorded a series of five videos with O'Reilly Media that showcases Cocos2D for iPhone in a conversational screencast format. Read on to learn if it is worth the nearly 20-dollar price to stream/download the videos.

Parallel Worker 0.2.0

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:14:00 -0400

A jQuery plugin that takes advantage of HTML 5 Web Workers

The Cloud Standards Are In

Mon, 23 May 2011 10:33:00 -0400

...and programmers are still doing the heavy lifting

MongoDB and Java

Sun, 22 May 2011 06:54:14 -0400

The MongoDB query language is flexible in terms of missing fields, exactly matching fields, range queries, regular expressions, and the use of JavaScript functions in queries

The Book of CSS3 Review

Tue, 10 May 2011 09:24:00 -0400

With the advent of CSS3 support in today's modern browsers, web designers and developers have more control over typography and graphic layouts than ever before. Learning these nuances just got easier with Peter Gasston's The Book of CSS3. Read on for my review.

Quartz 2.0 for Java

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:16:22 -0400

Quartz is a open-source job scheduler for Java developers, and can be used to schedule tasks that range from simple to complex

Altair 8800 vs. Watson in the Cloud

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:47:00 -0400

Ironically, in many circles, the conversation and focus has shifted from knowing "what's under the hood?" to "how many places have you traveled in the car?"

The Language of Math

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:16:00 -0400

The language of math is an odd creature, idiosyncratic and given to a huge number of inconsistencies and assumptions. Some symbols are Roman, some are Greek, some are Hebrew, and some just unique.

Head in the Clouds

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:53:45 -0400

For developers, programming for the cloud, especially public clouds, is no simple task

Growth of Web Servers in Ireland

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:48:00 -0400

Amazon is responsible for much growth in the number of web servers in Ireland

iPad 2 Brings iOS Developers to Multicore Programming Land

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:57:00 -0400

The recently launched iPad 2 includes a 1 GHz dual-core Apple A5 System-on-a-Chip -- If you want your iOS apps to take full advantage of this powerful dual-core chip, you have to use multicore programming techniques in these apps

A Backbone for JavaScript-Heavy Web UI

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:28:34 -0500

It seems like every week there's a new JavaScript framework that claims to simplify the process of bringing desktop-like interactivity to web applications. The number of these libraries and frameworks...

Cloud Computing Races On, But NoSQL Finds Bumps In The Road

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:47:16 -0500

Highly publicized outages of sites using a NoSQL solution have raised the specter of stability problems. That's not atypical for new software and some big name NoSQL products are not an exception

Cloud Computing: Data Services, NoSQL and SQL Databases

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:17:55 -0500

The recent news on the NoSQL database front is that hackers are now looking into security vulnerabilities due to the architecture of NoSQL solutions. The best approach to security relies on multi-laye...

Legislation, Tracking Applications and XML Plumbing

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:30:46 -0500

After the W3C published XML 1.0, there was a surge of interest in a new class of data stores commonly referred to as 'XML servers' and 'native XML databases' that stored an XML document as a unit. Am...

Computer Price Comparisons with the Mustang Index

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:59:30 -0500

Over several decades, the price of computers has dropped dramatically - as the Mustang Index shows - and productivity of knowledge workers has risen. Of all of the things purchased or leased by organi...

Government Seeking Comments on Cloud Security Proposal

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:28:00 -0500

The US government has established the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) to define the security environment in which those applications in the cloud must operate.

Rush to the Cloud

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:49:38 -0500

The Kundra plan calls for each government agency to identify three services that must move to the cloud, enabling them to benefit from "commodity IT funding". There's an expectation that moving applic...

Part II: Specialty Hardware, Databases, Mainframes, and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:52:42 -0500

Building new services and applications is one solution for surfacing information that currently resides in data silos, such as legacy data sources. So there's plenty of interest in tapping mainframe d...

SQL Injection Attacks and Data Theft

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:14:12 -0500

SQL databases are everywhere. Many are accessible from Internet connections, such as for use with web-facing applications. But even today not all database servers tied to the Internet are hardened and...