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Interview With Ward Cunningham
The creator of the Wiki dishes on the Wiki, Wikipedia's policies, OO design, technical debt, CoffeeScript and Perl, how to survive as a veteran programmer, and doing the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Testing OO Systems, Part 1
OO tests stimulate an object and observe that object's behavior. The tests do not look at the object's state to judge whether or not the test succeeds, they just look at the object's behavior. When I call dog.expressHappiness(), my test succeeds when I observe that wagTail() is called. I would never look inside the dog at the isHappy field.
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
The Humble Boolean Deserves Help
The boolean data type rarely gets the attention it merits. As a result, it's stuck in a world of exactly two values, with little margin for safety.
JVM Languages News
NSA-Grade Fixmo Mobile Security SDK On Offer
Defense-grade data encryption for iOS and Android devices
CloudBees Pollinates HP Cloud Services
Java application deployment directly onto OpenStack-based HP cloud
Azul Zing 5.2 JVM Released with Support for Ubuntu
Zing Vision added: overhead production-time application monitoring and diagnostics tool
MS Open Tech Releases Open Source Metro Theme for jQuery Mobile
HTML5 automatically adapts to Metro on Windows Phone 7.5 devices
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
JReport 11: Data Visualization Just Got Slicker
Java reporting with live charting functions including motion, real-time, and scrollable charts.
JetBrains WebStorm 4.0 in Harmony with ECMAScript
JavaScript IDE supports the latest ECMAScript features and Code Coverage in JS unit testing
Eclipse Moves Into Clear View Of Orion
Orion browser-based web application IDE with JavaScript and HTML
Multi-Threaded Compiled Performance for JavaScript and Python
Fabric Engine releases v1.0 offering under open source license for HPC applications
Red Hat Betas JBoss Developer Studio 5
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 also released
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.
