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May 24, 2013

Game of Life — Using Threads and Lists, Part 3

If I'm programming my list-based version of Game of Life in the real world, how can I parallelize it when I am using a third-party provided data structure?

May 24, 2013

The Hazards of Remembering Positions in Vectors

Don't remember pointers, references, or iterators to vector elements until
 you're done putting new elements in the vector.

May 21, 2013

Java Apps on the Raspberry Pi

Here is an update on my ongoing project, where I use Java on a Raspberry Pi to control an Arduino, which in turn will control some other electrical device




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First C Compiler Now on Github

The earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie has been published on the repository.

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Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU

All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM

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Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev

Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.

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How to Select a PaaS Partner

Eventually, the vast majority of Web applications will run on a platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, vendor's infrastructure. To help sort out the options, we sent out a matrix with more than 70 decision points to a variety of PaaS providers.

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