DDJ - Mobility

Anomalies, and design strategies for avoiding them, are among the many reasons that programming-language design is harder than it looks.

Ben Hanley, Senior Project Manager at Evans Data Corporation gives you a structural overview of HTML5 adoption.

Using the metaprogramming capabilities of C++ and generic programming, it's possible to create an elegant parser of parameter types. Command-line interpreters, parsers, and syntax checkers are among the many applications.

Linux and OS X compliant IDE with developer debugging tools

Faking a CS degree will get you fired. Falsely claiming to be a software engineer will get you — wait, is that even possible?

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.

OO tests stimulate an object and observe that object's behavior. The tests do not look at the object's state to judge whether or not the test succeeds, they just look at the object's behavior. When I call dog.expressHappiness(), my test succeeds when I observe that wagTail() is called. I would never look inside the dog at the isHappy field.

Potential answer to "increasing demand" for developing MySQL apps on multiple cloud platforms

Amazon Relational Database Service for SQL Server and ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Defense-grade data encryption for iOS and Android devices

Java application deployment directly onto OpenStack-based HP cloud

Hamming distance is important in reliable systems and is also used in some cryptography algorithms.

Potential "GPU-boost" for broader range of programming languages

Rogue Wave Software acquires ILOG visualization for C++ products from IBM

In this post, I want to remind you to consider issues that your parallel code can encounter from the compiler.

Exploring the Java Executor Service, which is useful for managing pools of threads, as well as the scheduling of future events

Public beta of cloud-based component and asset management tool

Plantronics Developer Connection aims to fuel innovation in context-aware computing

Essential Studio 2012 Volume 2 with project wizard for ASP.NET MVC