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Why Aren't There Better Testing Tools?
Static analysis, UI record and playback, and load testing dominate today's testing tools. Just like they did in the 1990s. Where's the progress?
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The best testing tools of the past year
Test-Driving Development for the Firefox OS Phone
Mozilla's Firefox OS delivers an easy way to develop and market apps for Android and the upcoming Mozilla-specific phone. Mike Riley takes a first look at developing apps for the platform.
Working with TypeScript in Visual Studio 2012
Using Visual Studio makes working with TypeScript easy and helps reveal subtleties of the language implementation and code generation.
Dealing With All Our Stuff
Unneeded bits cost energy and mind space. Let's keep 'em to a minimum.
Tools News
Perforce Speeds Application Cadence
Filtered replication capabilities and task streams for rapid release cadences
Debian 6 Now Onboard International Space Station
Developers at United Space Alliance work with Linux Foundation
New Age Developer Collaboration Tools From Workshare
Open API to workflow tool with file sharing and sync features
Crowdsourced Scripts For MSPs
GFI Software launches interactive platform to solve managed hosting problems
Your Favorite Automatic Data Endianness Conversion
AdaCore feeds CodePeer an GNAT
Sharpened Forking Inside Git
Atlassian Stash 2.4 encourages and facilitates forking for open source coders using Git
Mozilla and Otoy Announce ORBX.js JavaScript Library
HTML5 library enables native Windows apps to run in any browser
DreamFactory's Radically Simplified Mobile Development
New open-source platform for building secure mobile HTML5 and native apps
IBM's MobileFirst In A World Of More Intelligent Devices
Mobile apps to be constantly tailored in new dynamic mobile environments
Solve for Tomorrow
Samsung has announced the winners of third annual Solve for Tomorrow contest, a nationwide $1M competition designed to raise enthusiasm for STEM education among U.S. public middle and high school students.
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. San Francisco, CA. HBaseCon
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 24-28. San Jose, CA. 2013 USENIX Annual Technical 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.
