Design
Design Feature Articles
The Steady Emergence of PaaS
After the first wave of IaaS, the cloud market is turning to PaaS as the primary model for service delivery
Unit Testing in C: Tools and Conventions
Two lightweight testing frameworks make it easy to unit test C code.
GNU Awk: This is Not Your Father's Awk
Awk's features have advanced considerably in the last decade — such as the addition of a debugger and a profiler — all without removing any of the elegance or terseness of the fabled little language.
Advice to a New Programmer
So much advice is heaped upon beginners that it can be hard to know where to start. However, these five practices are the foundation upon which everything else is built.
Designing a Network Protocol
When requirements are tight and unforgiving, it's sometimes easier to design your own protocol.
Design News
Apache Mahout Rides New Jungle Book
Machine learning algorithm libraries for filtering, clustering and classification
Oracle Champions Multi-Channel Application Development
New Application Development Framework, Oracle JDeveloper and Enterprise Pack for Eclipse
An Agile OS X Methodology Collaboration Combo
A native interface to combine different methodologies and platforms
Research@Intel Showcase
Researchers show off new technologies at Research@Intel demo.
Windows 8.1 Preview Technical Preview Download
Windows Blue is "reimagined from the chipset to the experience", honest
Apigee Wizard Converts APIs From SOAP to REST
Helping developers reengineer IT architectures for modern web and mobile apps
1,700 Numerical Routines Parallelized for Intel Xeon Phi
NAG Library for Intel Xeon Phi launches
Expanding Vibrations In Haptic SDK For Games
Three developer platforms get access to Immersion Haptic SDK effects for Android games
Perforce Speeds Application Cadence
Filtered replication capabilities and task streams for rapid release cadences
Teen Computer Scientist Wins Big at ISEF
19-year-old Ionut Alexandru Budisteanu of Romania won the $75,000 Gordon E. Moore Award for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car.
Events of Interest
August 20-22. San Jose, CA. NoSQL 2013 Conference and Expo
August 20-21. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
August 25-29. San Francisco, CA. VMWorld 2013
September 9-12. Santa Clara, CA.SpringOne 2GX 2013
September 10-12. San Francisco, CA. Intel Developer Forum (IDF13)
September 16-19. Santa Clara, CA. Storage Developer Conference (SDC)
September 18-20. St. Louis, MO. Strange Loop 2013
September 22-26. San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
September 25-7. Boston, MA. 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
October 1-3. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
October 5-6. Los Altos Hills, CA. Silicon Valley Code Camp
October 26-31. Indianapolis, IN. SPLASHCon2013
October 23-25. San Fransisco, CA. API Strategy and Practice Conference
October 28-30. London, United Kingdom. JAXLondon 2013 Big Data Conference
November 5-7. Los Angeles, CA. App Developers Conference (ADC)
March 17-21, 2014. San Francisco, CA. Game Developers Conference (GDC 2014)
Videos of Past Events
June 2013. JAXConf 2013
June 2013. Gradle Summit
June 2013. Chicago Algorithmic Trading Conference
May 2013. Google I/O
March 2013. GPU Technology Conference
October 2012. JAXLondon 2012
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
