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The Best of 2012

By Andrew Binstock, December 21, 2012

The most popular articles of the past 12 months from Dr. Dobb's, plus some additional pieces chosen for your thoughtful consideration by our staff.

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Developer Salary Survey

Design of the LLVM

Interview with Alan Kay

Jolt Awards: The Best Books

Building QuickBooks: How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Reviewed

Interview with Ward Cunningham

Programming Insights

Say No To Properties

Linked Lists are So Last Century

Programming the 60-core Intel Phi

Welcome to the Parallel Jungle (Herb Sutter)

Parallel In-Place Merge

New Languages And Language Revisions

C++ 11:

unique_ptr

auto types and range-based for

scope regions

C11 Standard explained by Tom Plum:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

D

Component Programming in D

Porting the D Compiler to Win 64

Voldemort Types in D

Go Tutorial

Getting Going with Go

OO and Go's Special Data Types

How Go Handles Objects

Go's Standard Library

Native Languages

The New Native Languages

JavaFX: Building a Text Editor

Part 1, Part 2

Windows 8 Apps

Writing your first Windows 8 App: The Lay of the Land

Customizing the Appearance of Windows 8 Apps

Access Data via REST in Windows 8 Apps

Jolt Awards

Books

Coding Tools

Testing Tools

Mobile

Utilities

Editorials

What Makes Great Programmers Different?

Mind Maps: The Poor Man's Design Tool

The Scourge of Error Handling

Videos

Introduction to OpenCL

Heterogeneous Computing

Our Staff's Consensus Favorite Article of the Year

Interview with Alan Kay


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