Open Source
Open Source Feature Articles
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.
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.
Tracking Small Coding Decisions
Most coding involves numerous small design decisions made on the fly. Tracking those decisions helps keep code clean and documentation up to date. It also says something about your design.
Behavior-Driven Development With easyb
easyb is an open BDD framework for the Java platform with an out-of-the-box reporting tool that provides test results in HTML and XML formats. It enables you to write executable documentation by which you can validate your apps.
No Tool or Combination of Tools Can Assure Fail-Safe Code
The government's analysis of Toyota's automotive code revealed errors and failures. But despite extensive overlapping forms of testing and modeling, it could not prove or clear the software as a contributor to unintended acceleration.
Open Source News
Open Django Builds Open Source Web Democracy
Developers "more interested" in framework's data models than operating system or GUI
Free ALM Tracker From White Source
Public beta of cloud-based component and asset management tool
Stash Code On Stash: Git Repository Management
Central on-server solution to create and manage distributed repositories
Meego Out, Tizen 1.0 Larkspur SDK In
First non-beta release of source code and SDK
Caps Workbench Now Supports OpenACC
Cross-platform API and open parallel programming standard for programmers
Microsoft Open Technologies Updates Redis
Open source, advanced key-value store on GitHub
SAP's Message Of Openness To Mobile Developers
Collaboration With Adobe, Appcelerator, and Sencha
Microsoft Open Sources ASP.NET Web API and Web Pages
VP calls for "development transparency" under the Apache 2.0 license
GNOME 3.4 Looks Good and Feels Good (Eventually)
New interface for open source desktop environment, application transformation to follow
XBMC Entertainment Hub Targets Third-Party Developers
Heavily upgraded JSON-RPC support, plus remote control support
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.
