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Embedded Systems Feature Articles
Porting BlackBerry Z10 Apps to the Q10
With the release of the BlackBerry Q10 right around the corner, BlackBerry 10 application developers should be thinking about adapting their code to support the new devices. This article presents background and tips on development for this new handset.
Building an Automotive Dashboard on Android
Developing for the in-car Android-based Asteroid Smart dashboard.
AMD's Bold ARM Server Gambit
By combining 64-bit ARM processors with server-side technology, the company that led the x86 architecture into the 64-bit world is hoping to reinvent the data center and give itself new life.
Understanding Core Data on iOS
Using a database in iOS requires careful navigation of the classes in Core Data. Here's a detailed look at how to use Core Data to create and use a simple database.
Windows Phone:
Surprisingly Easy to Develop For
Dino Esposito states that, compared with writing iOS and Android applications, developing applications for Windows Phone is much easier. If you're coming to Windows Phone with a .NET background, you will feel right at home
Embedded Systems News
Teen Computer Scientist Wins Big at ISEF
19-year-old Ionut Alexandru Budisteanu of Romania won the $75,000 Gordon E. Moore Award for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car.
Intel's Silvermont Microarchitecture
Silvermont features new multicore and system fabric architecture scalable up to eight cores, enabling greater performance for higher bandwidth, lower latency and more efficient out-of-order support for a better balanced and responsive system.
McObject's New eXtremeDB 5.0 Menu
Embedded DBMS with developer efficiency improvements
Embedded Remote App Support for Android and iOS
Bomgar SDK can be embedded into any Apple iOS or Android app
Perceptual Computing
Using the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK 2013, developers can create applications that take advantage of the SDK’s core capabilities for handling close-range hand and finger tracking, speech recognition, face analysis, and augmented reality.
Oracle Announces Event Processing For Java Embedded
Java on the edge
Robotics Competition: Tomorrow's Tech Talent Has Game
At the FIRST Robotics Competition, teens learn about technology trade-offs, strategy and teamwork. NASA and major tech firms say the contest shapes tomorrow's tech leaders.
AdaCore Releases GNAT Pro Safety-Critical for ARM
Ada now available for popular "bareboard" platform
Multicore Programming (Not) For Dummies
What Developers Need To Know About App Privacy
Intel developer blogger Wendy Boswell highlights the current legal state of the app nation
Events of Interest
May 28-31. Boston, MA. AnDevCon Android Developer Conference
May 28-30. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
June 4-5, Santa Clara, CA. JAXConf 2013 (free)
June 10-14. New York, NY. QCon
June 12. Chicago, IL. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference: for Developers, by Developers
June 13. San Francisco, CA. HBaseCon
June 13-14. Santa Clara, CA. Gradle Summit 2013
June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference
June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 24-28. San Jose, CA. 2013 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013
July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013
July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit
August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)
September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013
October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
Videos of Past Events
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
Best of the Web
First C Compiler Now on Github
The earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie has been published on the repository.
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU
All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM
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.
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.
