Jolt Awards
Jolt Awards Feature Articles
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The Annual Award for Best Testing Products
Jolt Calendar
Categories, schedule, and submission details for 2012 Jolt Awards
The Shrinking Expanding World of CI
Continuous integration is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance as continuous delivery (and its sidekick, DevOps) begin to find adoption in many enterprises. Simultaneously, the number of viable CI packages is shrinking quickly.
2012 Jolt Award Winners for Third-Party Libraries
2012 Jolt Award Winners for Third-Party Libraries
The Complete Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards
A compendium of Jolt Award winners through the years with links to Dr. Dobb's editorial coverage where applicable
Jolt Awards News
Akka 2.0 Toolkit and Runtime Released For Scala Or Java
Potential programming boost for concurrency, fault-tolerance, and scalability?
Jolt Awards: Schedule Being Updated
The existing Jolt Awards schedule will be undergoing changes
Jolt Awards Update: Change and Configuration Management Category
Nominations are being accepted
CollabNet Intros CollabNet Subversion Edge
Distribution combines Subversion, Apache, and ViewVC with Web-based management interface
Pervasive Enhances DataRush with Scalable Analytics
Highly parallel platform leverages multicore systems
HTML5 App Framework Announced
Sensha Touch targets mobile platforms
NetBeans 6.9 Released
First NetBeans release under Oracle; focus on JavaFX
Cloud-Based Application Security Service Unveiled
Veracode enhances is automated static binary and dynamic web application testing service
CollabNet, HP Team Up on ALM
TeamForge integration with Quality Center provides requirements-to-release ALM
OpenCL 1.1 Spec Released
Release includes C++ wrapper API for use with OpenCL
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.
