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Embedded Systems Feature Articles
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
Using Bluetooth
Trying to communicate with a remote device with no other familiar protocol? Bluetooth provides an easy answer with well-documented specs and straightforward programming APIs.
Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers Begin Their Ascent
As the cloud is quickly demonstrating, small, seemingly underpowered servers are quite enough for most development tasks. Buying one of these low-cost, low-power units makes clear how much developer-friendlier they are than datacenter solutions
The Best of 2011
The most popular articles of last year from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces picked out for your thoughtful consideration by our staff
Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part I: Early Initialization
The boot sequence today is far more complex than it was even a decade ago. Here's a detailed, low-level, step-by-step walkthrough of the boot up.
Embedded Systems News
Headsets Feed Context-Aware Data To Apps
Plantronics Developer Connection aims to fuel innovation in context-aware computing
M2M
Wireless Technology is Revolutionizing Transportation
New Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications
Compute resources now straddle processors and HD graphics drivers
Bluetooth Developer Portal: Detected, Do You Want To Accept?
New programmer portal serves over 16,000 Bluetooth SIG membership
Samsung Serves Ice Cream Sandwich Across The Galaxy
A closer look at Android's form, function, and structure
EEMBC "AndEBench" Standardizes Android Benchmarking
New benchmark provides equitable, unbiased, and repeatable test for Android smartphones and other connected devices
Wind River Introduces Safe Partitioning
VxWorks safety solutions for industrial and automotive applications
Xamarin Climbs To MonoTouch 5.2 Release
New testing framework, memory profiler, and rapid UI creation library for iPhone and iPad development
Compuware Updates Mainframe Workbench
New programmer tools for development and testing in mainframe arenas
New C/C++ Interpreter: Ch 7.0 and Embedded Ch 7.0
SoftIntegration releases interpreter for cross-platform scripting
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 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.
