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Developer's Reading List
The most interesting books of the last month, selected and reviewed by Dr. Dobb's editors.
The New Native Languages
D and Go are at the forefront of a new generation of native languages emerging in the space between C and C++.
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The Annual Award for Best Testing Products
Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It
If Oracle prevails in its claim that APIs can be copyrighted, nearly every aspect of programming will be changed for the worse.
Understanding Client-Side Storage in Web Apps
Pamela Fox compares the four major APIs for browser-side storage and explains how to balance performance, data size, and browser support.
Tools News
2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winners
Jack Andraka, Nicholas Schiefer, and Ari Dyckovsky take top honors.
OutSystems Boosts DevOps Tools For Muli-Tenant Apps
Just another "bridge between" for development and operations?
Nvidia Debuts Nsight Eclipse Edition IDE
Linux and OS X compliant IDE with developer debugging tools
Nvidia Contributes CUDA Compiler to Open Source
Potential "GPU-boost" for broader range of programming languages
Going Rogue (Wave) Over ILOG C++
Rogue Wave Software acquires ILOG visualization for C++ products from IBM
Headsets Feed Context-Aware Data To Apps
Plantronics Developer Connection aims to fuel innovation in context-aware computing
Stash Code On Stash: Git Repository Management
Central on-server solution to create and manage distributed repositories
Free Version Management Licenses For Software Application Developers
Perforce now free for up to 20 users
Microsoft Tunes Up Visual Studio 11
Release candidate UI updates boost visual energy and contrast to tackle grayness
Infragistics "Fostering" Designer/Developer Love
Company announces NetAdvantage Ultimate 2012 Volume 1
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.
