Web Development
Web Development Feature Articles
Developer's Reading List
The most interesting books of the last month, selected and reviewed by Dr. Dobb's editors.
Interview With Ward Cunningham
The creator of the Wiki dishes on the Wiki, Wikipedia's policies, OO design, technical debt, CoffeeScript and Perl, how to survive as a veteran programmer, and doing the simplest thing that could possibly work.
Jolt Awards: The Best Testing Tools
The Annual Award for Best Testing Products
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.
Type-Safe File-Based Configuration
Front loading error detection allows you to use configuration properties without having to worry about things like type mismatches, missing or illegal values, or unexpected exceptions
Web Development News
Open Django Builds Open Source Web Democracy
Developers "more interested" in framework's data models than operating system or GUI
2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winners
Jack Andraka, Nicholas Schiefer, and Ari Dyckovsky take top honors.
HTML5 Overview
Ben Hanley, Senior Project Manager at Evans Data Corporation gives you a structural overview of HTML5 adoption.
Amazon: New Managed Services for Windows Developers
Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server and ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Infragistics "Fostering" Designer/Developer Love
Company announces NetAdvantage Ultimate 2012 Volume 1
Practical HTML5
Doris Chen, a developer evangelist at Microsoft, explains, shows you how to get started with HTML5 today!
RIM BlackBerry 10 Platform Beta Arrives
New WebWorks SDK for HTML5/CSS3 and a native SDK (APIs)
M2M
Wireless Technology is Revolutionizing Transportation
Azul Zing 5.2 JVM Released with Support for Ubuntu
Zing Vision added: overhead production-time application monitoring and diagnostics tool
MS Open Tech Releases Open Source Metro Theme for jQuery Mobile
HTML5 automatically adapts to Metro on Windows Phone 7.5 devices
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.
