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Automatic Reference Counting on iOS
Automatic reference counting is an innovative way of managing Objective-C objects on MacOS X 10.7 and iOS 5. It does away with explicit retain, release and autorelease messages, and it behaves the same on both platforms
Using SQLite on Android
With a little care, SQLite can be used as a data store or full database on Android devices
PCs and Tablets: The Convergence is Happening Now
The new iPad? Meh. I'm running Visual Studio 11 on Windows 8 (64-bit) on my tablet. Yes, my tablet.
Microsoft's New Simple Database
Microsoft finally delivers a usable, no-admin, small-footprint database that can power real apps.
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
Mobile News
Google Beats Oracle Patent Claim
Second major phase of trial ends with a win for Google, but judge must still decide whether APIs qualify for copyright protection.
Is APM-Streaming The Way Forward?
Compuware APM updates address mobile, cloud, big data, and APM streaming
LongRange RPG, Not Playing Games
Native mobile development tool for IBM i Developers
Headsets Feed Context-Aware Data To Apps
Plantronics Developer Connection aims to fuel innovation in context-aware computing
Meego Out, Tizen 1.0 Larkspur SDK In
First non-beta release of source code and SDK
RIM BlackBerry 10 Platform Beta Arrives
New WebWorks SDK for HTML5/CSS3 and a native SDK (APIs)
MS Open Tech Releases Open Source Metro Theme for jQuery Mobile
HTML5 automatically adapts to Metro on Windows Phone 7.5 devices
Bluetooth Developer Portal: Detected, Do You Want To Accept?
New programmer portal serves over 16,000 Bluetooth SIG membership
Appcelerator: Got Cloud? Got Mobile? Go Develop
Titanium 2.0 mobile platform aligned for next-gen development trends
Visual Prototype iPad and Android Emulator
iRise 8.10 visualization software now extended to iPads and Android phones
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.
