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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?
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.
Supercharging ASP.NET Web Form Apps
With the introduction of the ASP.NET Web API in ASP.NET 4.5, it is now possible to add advanced client-side functionality to existing sites
Can Google's Dart Hit Its Target?
How can the fast, boring language from Google be a viable solution?
Microsoft TypeScript: The Lay of the Land
By creating a language that adds types to JavaScript, Microsoft made it easier to write complex Web apps, do compile-time syntax checking, and get better coding support in Visual Studio.
Web Development News
Life After Adobe Flash Builder
Amethyst 2 Ultimate, an answer after Adobe removed the visual designer from Flash Builder 4.7
The Only Way Is A Cloud Mobile Back-End
Telerik Icenium is an alternative to Facebook/Parse, Salesforce.com, and Heroku
Google Updates Go Open-Source Language
Version 1.1 adds race detector to find concurrency bugs
Google Launches First Dedicated Android IDE
Android Studio IDE built on base of IntelliJ Idea Java IDE
Zing's Unstoppable Java for WebSphere
Zing Platform Edition with WebSphere Application Server arrives
Amazon OpsWorks Cloud App Management Service
AWS "layers" act as blueprints for instances of cloud a developer deploys
Kaazing WebSocket Gateway Arrives
High-performance web communication platform
The Industrial Internet Is Data-Driven and Context-Intelligent
Pivotal PaaS boosted for next phase of growth inside new data fabrics
Oracle Uses HTML5 To Enhance Application Mobility
HTML5 to provide simplified remote access to enterprise apps
Facebook Buys Parse For Mobile App Acceleration
Social networking giant steps towards so-called premium application sector
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.
