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Ada 2012: Ada With Contracts
The most important new feature in Ada 2012 is support for contract-based programming, which adds more validation of mission-critical code to a language already famous for its focus on reliability.
Jolt Awards 2013: The Best Programmer Libraries
The best programmer libraries of the past year
The Death of Beta Testing?
Short release cycles, continuous deployment, automatic updates, and a fear of social media tattling on beta defects are causing vendors to forgo beta testing and find new ways to get useful user feedback.
Embedded print Statements != Debugging
Conflation of two concepts — true debugging and dumping variables to the console — encourages poor programming practices and harms codebases.
Why I Use Perl...and Will Continue to Do So
Despite Perl's steady decline in usage, its users continue their romance with the language's features.
Testing News
Sauce Labs App Test Cloud Adds Android
Appium on Sauce — automated testing for native apps supports Android, iOS, and mobile web hybrid apps
Your Favorite Automatic Data Endianness Conversion
AdaCore feeds CodePeer an GNAT
450 Million Lines Of Scanned Software Code Can’t Be Wrong
Defect density (defects per 1,000 lines of software code) measurement report released
Soasta and CloudBees Team For Jenkins Plugin
Mobile platform tool for continuous integration
One Million SoapUI Community Testers Can't Be Wrong
SmartBear WebLoadUI offers open source community route for complex stress and load testing
An Objective-C IDE Done Right?
AppCode 2.0 integrates with Kiwi testing framework and documentation browsers
High-Risk Iterative Test Cases To Address Requirements
Jama Contour 3.6.2 integrates with defect tracking and test automation solutions
Atego ApexAda Developer Updated
Atego ApexAda Developer 5.0 with support for Ada 2005 passing all available Ada conformity assessment tests
QASymphony Releases Cloud-Based QA Testing Tool qTest
Software tests from Dublin to Ho Chi Minh City
Peer Review Across Docs and Code
SmartBear Collaborator provides team review connections across all project stakeholders
Events of Interest
May 28-31. Boston, MA. AnDevCon Android Developer Conference
May 28-30. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
June 4-5, Santa Clara, CA. JAXConf 2013 (free)
June 10-14. New York, NY. QCon
June 12. Chicago, IL. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference: for Developers, by Developers
June 13-14. Santa Clara, CA. Gradle Summit 2013
June 17-19. Boston, MA. E2 Conference
June 18-20. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
June 26-27. San Francisco, CA. Build 2013
July 22-26. Portland, OR. O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2013
July 29-31, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. JVM Language Summit
August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)
September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013
October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
Videos of Past Events
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
September 2012. Strangeloop
September 2012. Intel Developer Forum
August 2012. VMWorld
July 2012. Java Language Summit
June 2012. Google I/O 2012
May 2012. Atlassian Summit
May 2012 (paid). Fluent Conference
March 2012. Multicore World
July 2011. JVM Language Summit
Best of the Web
First C Compiler Now on Github
The earliest known C compiler by the legendary Dennis Ritchie has been published on the repository.
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
HTML5 Mobile Development: Seven Good Ideas (and Three Bad Ones)
Building Bare Metal ARM Systems with GNU
All you need to know to get up and running... and programming on ARM
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.
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.
