Blogs

March 16, 2011

Head in the Clouds

For developers, programming for the cloud, especially public clouds, is no simple task

January 19, 2011

Peepers, Terrorists, Doctors and Data Threats - Oh My!

Recently there's been more evidence of employees disregarding privacy rights because of curiosity, opportunities to sell information, and assisting criminals and even terrorists.

January 05, 2011

Government Seeking Comments on Cloud Security Proposal

The US government has established the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) to define the security environment in which those applications in the cloud must operate.




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The Best of 2011

The most popular articles of last year from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces picked out for your thoughtful consideration by our staff

Top Security Threats for 2012

Malware, hacks, break-ins, and other malfeasance FortiGuard Labs predicts we'll have to deal with next year

Testing the Final SHA-3 Hashing Algorithms

Testing the finalists in the competition for a new SHA-3 standard shows generally fast, secure hashing algorithms with few collisions.

Finding the New Encryption Standard, SHA-3

The search for a replacement for SHA-2 has settled on five finalists. We examine their internals and compare their performance.

Jolt Awards for Books: The Rest of the Best

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2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winners

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

Wind River Introduces Safe Partitioning

VxWorks safety solutions for industrial and automotive applications

Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview

Over 100 new features including security functions — coming late summer 2012

Compuware Updates Mainframe Workbench

New programmer tools for development and testing in mainframe arenas

Bridging Git Over Open Source and Commercial

AccuRev's Kando enterprise security and compliance platform

OpenSSL Closes Security Hole Six Pack

Cryptographic protocol flaws brought into question

Former Hacker: Software Should Be More Secure

Charlie Miller, a former hacker turned information security consultant, spoke at the recent conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.

Cast Software's Five Pillars of Application Integrity

320 million scrutinized lines of code can't be wrong — or can they?

360° Load Testing for Web, Mobile, and Cloud

New combined Compuware Gomez and dynaTrace load-testing solution

ThoughtWorks Updates Release Management and Testing Tools

Agile development without the heavyweight and prescriptive approach?

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.

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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.

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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");

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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.

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