Blogs

May 24, 2012

Why Does C++ Allow Arithmetic on Null Pointers?

My last two notes discussed a subtle language-design issue that simplifies programmers' lives in ways that they often don't suspect. This theme seems useful, so I'll continue it.

May 23, 2012

Let's All Write a Mobile OS!

Intel, Nokia, Microsoft and the endless relaunching of mobile operating systems

May 23, 2012

The Long and Short of Parallelism

Ten years ago, multi-core processors were just on the horizon. Today they are mainstream and have become the impetus for a revolution in computer programming that can make best use of the two, four, six, or eight cores.




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Windows 8 Says Goodbye To F8 Reboots

May 24, 2012

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

May 24, 2012

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

May 23, 2012

.NET developers offered free usage decompiler from JetBrains with strong search functionality - .NET

Inside The Visual Studio 11 Product Lineup

May 23, 2012

Microsoft developer team bloggers reveal product specs and platform support - .NET

Is APM-Streaming The Way Forward?

May 22, 2012

Compuware APM updates address mobile, cloud, big data, and APM streaming - Cloud

Open Django Builds Open Source Web Democracy

May 22, 2012

Developers "more interested" in framework's data models than operating system or GUI - Open Source

2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winners

May 21, 2012

Jack Andraka, Nicholas Schiefer, and Ari Dyckovsky take top honors. - Tools

Cloud Collaboration For Developers, And "Downwards"

May 21, 2012

Altova MetaTeam reaches beta release for project management and collaboration - Cloud

OutSystems Boosts DevOps Tools For Muli-Tenant Apps

May 21, 2012

Just another "bridge between" for development and operations? - Tools

Xamarin Designer For Native Android App User Interfaces

May 21, 2012

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

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