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Open Source Feature Articles
The Best of 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.
Heterogeneous Programming
AMD's Ben Sander shares details about the heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) and how it will change the way people program in the future.
Easy, Real-Time Big Data Analysis Using Storm
Conceptually straightforward and easy to work with, Storm makes handling big data analysis a breeze.
Testing Browser Apps
The QUnit framework makes it easy to test Web apps directly in the browser. By showing the red/green results in the browser with links to the failing tests, it makes it possible to write, test, and correct quickly.
The Git Revolution Is Here
The movement from centralized to distributed VCS is accelerating. Enterprises and tool vendors are catching on and catching up with what open-source developers have been doing for a while. And at the front of the parade is Git.
Open Source News
Developer "Joy" Felt At MoSync SDK 3.2
On-device debugging and Android 4.x support
Sauce Labs Shares Its Open Sauce Secret
Open source focused programmers offered Selenium-based free cloud testing service
Open Source REBOL Language Reaches Version 3
REBOL is not a traditional computer language and is not for everyone
Connectors To MySQL Community Via MariaDB
SkySQL and Monty Program release the MariaDB Client Library for C and MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications
Collaborate Apps In The Big Data Hell Hole
ActuateOne based on BIRT Now Certified on CDH4
Cloud Foundry Pushes PaaS Interoperability
The open source VMware-sponsored Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) project has introduced the new Cloud Foundry Core framework in a bid to try and address cloud PaaS interoperability.
OmniOS Wants To Fill The OpenSolaris Void
Open source software operating system has improved ZFS support and new tools
VMware Does Complicated Dance With Open Source
Now that VMware owns Nicira, how will Nicira continue to lead development of virtual networking in OpenStack? Nicira founder Martin Casado explains.
MS Open Tech Cures Asynchronous Spaghetti Code Disease
Open sourcing of Reactive Extensions (Rx) to provide a common interface for cloud apps managing data from diverse sources
SOA Software's Open and Free API Playground
Open API developer platform brings developers and API providers together
Events of Interest
Febrary 21, 2013. San Diego, CA. Hadoop Innovation Summit
February 22-24, 2013. Los Angeles, CA. SCALE 11x
February 24-March 2, 2013. Portland, OR. ApacheCon North America 2013
February 25-March 1, 2013. Montreal, Canada. ConFoo
March 3-6, 2013. San Francisco, CA. SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference
March 18-19, 2013. Redwood City, CA. Developer Relations Conference
March 18-21, 2013. San Jose, CA. GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2013
March 25-28, 2013. Boston, MA. EclipseCon
April 8-10, 2013. Cambridge, MA. Big Data TechCon
April 8-12, 2013. Austin, TX. Xamarin Evolve 2013
April 16-17, 2013. Seattle, WA. Business & Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
April 28-May 3, 2013. Las Vegas, NV. IBM Software Impact 2013
May 14-15, 2013. San Francisco, CA. Security Development Conference
May 28-30, 2013. San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Fluent Conference
April 22-25, 2013. San Jose, CA. DESIGN West and Embedded Systems Conference
June 18-20, 2013. Santa Clara, CA. O'Reilly Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference
August 20-21, 2013. Raleigh, NC. Business and Technology Solutions Summit 2013: Cloud and Big Data Conference and Expo
October 1-3, 2013. San Francisco, CA. Atlassian Summit 2013
Videos of Recent Events
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
Best of the Web
Amazon's Vogels Challenges IT: Rethink App Dev
Amazon Web Services CTO says promised land of cloud computing requires a new generation of applications that follow different principles.
Reverse-engineering legacy ANSI C codebases
Start with the data structures, then document the APIs, then...
Exclusive: Anatomy Of A Brokerage IT Meltdown
Regulators last year issued the SEC's first-ever privacy fine against broker-dealer GunnAllen for failing to protect customer data. But former IT staffers say regulators didn't seem to know half of this cautionary tale of outsourcing and oversight gone wrong.
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
OpenStack: An Overview
The latest release of OpenStack, which goes by the code name Folsom, adds two additional modules to the mix: Quantum and Cinder
