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Windows 8 Says Goodbye To F8 Reboots
Windows 8 will display new menu of troubleshooting choices to give users of fast-booting PCs and tablets plenty of time to enter alternate startup modes such as Safe Mode.
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.
Decompiler Delights: dotPeek for .NET
.NET developers offered free usage decompiler from JetBrains with strong search functionality - .NET
Inside The Visual Studio 11 Product Lineup
Microsoft developer team bloggers reveal product specs and platform support - .NET
Is APM-Streaming The Way Forward?
Compuware APM updates address mobile, cloud, big data, and APM streaming - Cloud
Open Django Builds Open Source Web Democracy
Developers "more interested" in framework's data models than operating system or GUI - Open Source
2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winners
Jack Andraka, Nicholas Schiefer, and Ari Dyckovsky take top honors. - Tools
Cloud Collaboration For Developers, And "Downwards"
Altova MetaTeam reaches beta release for project management and collaboration - Cloud
OutSystems Boosts DevOps Tools For Muli-Tenant Apps
Just another "bridge between" for development and operations? - Tools
Xamarin Designer For Native Android App User Interfaces
Works inside Visual Studio or Xamarin's IDE - .NET
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.
