Dr. Dobb's .NET Blogs

Dr. Dobb's Now Has A Windows Phone App

Wed, 07 Aug 2013 13:57:00 -0400

Reader writes open-source app for Windows Phone 8

BodyCom Development Kit

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:27:00 -0400

Use your body's electric field to authenticate

Porting the D Compiler to Win64

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:40:00 -0500

64-bit Windows was the last major x86 platform that the dmd compiler didn't support, so last summer my colleagues and I decided it was past due.

The Parrot Asteroid Development Experience

Thu, 31 May 2012 21:44:00 -0400

Is That An Android In Your Car?

Out of Memory (Topics)

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:05:00 -0400

I want to talk about how Android uses the out-of-memory mechanism built into the kernel to manage memory.

Introducing Embree

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:57:00 -0400

Open source photo-realistic ray tracing kernels that take full advantage of SSE and AVX on the CPU

Intel OpenCL SDK 1.1

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:59:00 -0400

Optimized performance for Intel architecture processors

Intel AVX2 Will Bring Integer Instructions with 256-bit SIMD Numeric Processing Capabilities

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:57:00 -0400

The forthcoming microarchitecture, codenamed "Haswell," will introduce Intel AVX2 in 2013

High-Level Programming Languages Should Improve Support for SIMD Instructions

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:19:00 -0400

Exposing SIMD units within interpreted languages could simplify programs and unleash floods of untapped processor power

New Features In ASP.NET MVC 3

Thu, 26 May 2011 11:05:00 -0400

ASP.NET MVC, a framework that runs on top of the ASP.NET runtime, enables you to design and implement applications that can leverage the Mode View Controller design pattern.

ViewState Enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0

Fri, 20 May 2011 13:53:00 -0400

ASP.NET 4 introduces a new property called ViewStateMode.

web.config Transformations in Visual Studio 2010

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:38:00 -0400

Visual Studio 2010 now comes with a new and interesting feature named "web.config transformation".

Android, Airplanes, and Assembler: IDEOne

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:46:00 -0400

I spend a lot of time on airplanes. It used to be you'd often strike up a conversation with the person next to you on a plane. Over the years I met the editor of a newspaper in Roswell, New Mexico (and, yes, he was human as far as I could tell), an LA Laker Girl (no kidding)

High Performance C++ Code in Windows Azure Roles

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:07:00 -0500

The newest Windows Azure versions allow you to make P/Invoke calls to invoke native code

I'm Loving It!

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:08:00 -0500

I wrote a very little code in the 1970s, got paid to write a little more in the 1980s, and have been writing code professionally, ever since 1990. I started with C++ -- self taught -- right when it came out in 1990. C++ was hard language to learn by myself, but I read Stroustrop, Eckel, Booch, Coplien, Meyers, Thielen and more, and these guys were pretty darn good teachers

Stranded on a Desert Island...

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:58:00 -0500

I just got back from Microsoft's MVP Summit 2011. I grouse a little (well, ok, a lot) about going because at 6'4 I hate cramped planes

Cloud Computing Races On, But NoSQL Finds Bumps In The Road

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:47:16 -0500

Highly publicized outages of sites using a NoSQL solution have raised the specter of stability problems. That's not atypical for new software and some big name NoSQL products are not an exception

Whither F#?

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:48:00 -0500

Why isn't there wider adoption of functional programming languages?

Enhanced Track Change Features in Visual Studio 2010

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:41:45 -0500

Track Changes is a well known feature in Visual Studio. To enable or disable this feature, you need to follow these steps: Open the Visual Studio 2010 IDE Click on Tools -> Options -> TextEditor Swit...

Part II: Specialty Hardware, Databases, Mainframes, and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:52:42 -0500

Building new services and applications is one solution for surfacing information that currently resides in data silos, such as legacy data sources. So there's plenty of interest in tapping mainframe d...

Fearful Vista

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 10:15:09 -0500

Robot fleeing, screaming NOOOOH! I DON'T _WANT_ TO RUN WINDOWS!

Cloud Development Tools in Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:45:07 -0400

Visual Studio 2010 provides excellent support for developing applications that reside in the cloud.

0 is octal!

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:10:00 -0400

I'm currently enhancing one of my source analysis tools and have had occasion to revisit the parsing of numeric literals in C, C++, C#, D and Java. Working my way through the requisite parts of the C and C++ standards I learned that the literal 0 is actually an octal, something that's probably not that widely known.

SEO Enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:18:50 -0400

ASP.NET 4.0 is a web application development framework that ships with Visual Studio 2010.

Visual Studio 2010's Parallel Programming Support in Visual Studio 2010

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:10:21 -0400

Visual Studio 2010 provides better support for debugging, profiling, and analyzing parallel applications running on multicore platforms.