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Database Feature Articles
Kernels, Contexts, Threads, and Extensible Database Architecture
If you are building a new database management system or simply want to write better database applications, you should be aware of the extensible architecture of operating systems and database managers.
Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It
If Oracle prevails in its claim that APIs can be copyrighted, nearly every aspect of programming will be changed for the worse.
Using SQLite on Android
With a little care, SQLite can be used as a data store or full database on Android devices
Understanding Client-Side Storage in Web Apps
Pamela Fox compares the four major APIs for browser-side storage and explains how to balance performance, data size, and browser support.
Microsoft's New Simple Database
Microsoft finally delivers a usable, no-admin, small-footprint database that can power real apps.
Database News
Amazon: New Managed Services for Windows Developers
Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server and ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Oracle Releases Java SE 7 Update 4 and JavaFX 2.1
An Oracle First: A JDK and JavaFX Software Development Kit for Mac OS X
Pentaho: Data Analytics Via Heat Grids and Bubble Charts
Promise of unified environment for data integration and business analytics across "all" data sets
Devart's "Worthy Alternative" To SQL Management Studio
dbForge Data Studio for SQL Server v.2.0 arrives
dotCloud's Full-Stack PaaS With MongoDB Sauce
Platform now supports HTML5, WebSockets, MongoDB 2.0, and vertical scaling
Watson to Fight Cancer
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and IBM have agreed to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon the Watson natural language processing computer system to provide improved cancer diagnostics.
Graph Databases Make Apps Social
Forrester analyst: Big Data platform and tool vendors align to adopt new trend
Oracle Confirms JavaFX 1.2 and 1.3 End Of Life Dates
JavaFX functionality now exposed through a Java API; JavaFX 2.0 Windows, OS X, and Linux now available
Altova Reveals Release 2 of MissionKit 2012
New support for the EPUB e-book standard and sorting of data mapping results
Oracle Announces MySQL Cluster 7.2
99.999% availability, 70x increase in performance plus certification with Oracle VM
Events of Interest
May 29-31, San Francisco, CA. Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Bellevue, WA. AMD Fusion12 Developer Summit
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 26-29, Boston, MA. 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 9-12, San Francisco, CA. JAX Conference - Java, Cloud, Android, Agile
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
August 6-10, Redmond, WA. Visual Studio Live
August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe
August 27-30, San Francisco, CA. VMworld 2012
September 11-13, San Francisco, CA. Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2012)
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 29-30, San Francisco, CA. MySQL Connect Conference
September 30-October 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 6-7, Los Altos, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 23-25, Ludwigsburg, Germany. EclipseCon Europe 2012
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
December 10-14, Orlando, FL. Visual Studio Live
Best of the Web
What the New iPad and iOS 5.1 Mean for Developers
The new display is gorgeous. But local storage for HMTL5 is currently broken on the new iPad and performance of some apps is slower. Here's a deep dive into the issues, including benchmarks and analysis.
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
