Blogs

February 22, 2013

Continuous Debugging

I propose that the next generation of IDEs create an environment of continuous debugging, to be integrated into the continuous integration paradigm. In other words, from the moment I begin coding in an editor, I want the IDE to enter debug mode, attempting to execute the project and update its execution state while I type.

July 04, 2012

Measuring Performance for Analytics, Decision Support, and the Data Warehouse

The Transaction Processing Council (TPC) produces specifications for benchmarks to compare hardware and software configurations used for applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support.

March 01, 2012

Information Storage and Retrieval: From MEDLARS to Twitter

Each decade, technology breakthroughs update our lexicon with new words and phrases.




Web Development

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Java EE 7: And Then What?

Enterprise Java is finally becoming the product it was originally intended to be.

Pydoop: Writing Hadoop Programs in Python

Installed as a layer above Hadoop, the open-source Pydoop package enables Python scripts to do big data work easily.

Through A PRISM Darkly

The revelation of secret government eavesdropping is likely to substantially reshape companies' understanding of their data's safety.

Acquiring Big Data Using Apache Flume

Data analysis is only half the battle; getting the data into a Hadoop cluster is the first step in any Big Data deployment. Apache Flume uses an elegant design to make data loading easy and efficient.

C++ Reading List

The new C++11 standard has led to a flood of new books and updates to classics. These are the core books you need.

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Red Hat Embraces Web Language Spectrum

Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 arrives in beta

JavaScript Utopia For Mobile App Developers

Cross-platform TigerLogic Omnis Studio Version 6.0 arrives

Bigger Beeps In Developer Barcodes

Dynamsoft enhances reader technology for .NET TWAIN SDK

The Crowd-Teaching Approach To Code Training

Codio IDE drives "post-curriculum" interactive collaboration

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

Events of Interest

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

Ocotber 23-25. San Fransisco, CA. API Strategy and Practice Conference

October 28-30. London, United Kingdom. JAXLondon 2013 Big Data Conference


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



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