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What CUDA Can Do For You [video]
Mark Ebersole from NVIDIA discusses what CUDA is and how it can help developers.
Review of Xamarin.Mac Professional
While a good IDE for porting Xamarin MonoTouch code (iOS-based C#) to the Mac, the long learning curve and poor documentation make it difficult to port code from Windows to the Apple desktop.
Debugging Memory in iOS Apps
Dangling pointers, double frees, memory leaks, and hogs — when it comes to writing apps for iOS, you've got to avoid these common pitfalls. Here's how!
What Exactly is DevOps?
The latest trend in software development is the culture of DevOps, in which developers partner with operations staff to assure that software runs with a minimum of problems.
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.
Tools News
UrtheCast "Live" Earth Video Camera Opens API
Two cameras located on the Russian module of the International Space Station
Complex Geospatial Application Development Made Simple(r)
Accelerating programmer options for location-aware apps and dynamic-geo queries on cloud
Sparx Releases Enterprise Architect 10
Version 10 of visualization and design platform based on UML 2.4.1
Digia Launches Qt 5 Framework
Intensified graphical animations/effects plus "highly portable" apps
Developer "Joy" Felt At MoSync SDK 3.2
On-device debugging and Android 4.x support
Splunk Announces New Development Tools
A route to "operational intelligence" from machine data
CollabNet TeamForge Strengthens Git Grrrr-Factor
Enterprise-grade distributed version control with centralized governance
DotNetNuke 7.0 Makes Refreshed Play For Developers
Better controls, less code, and better data access: Are you interested yet?
Git Gets Flash With A Bit Of Stash
On-Site Git management focused decentralized version control system from Atlassian
Not All Release Management Is Created Equal
Serena Software's orchestrated release management evangelist calls for balance in DevOps cadence
Events of Interest
February 19-20. Wellington, New Zealand. Multicore World 2013
February 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 Past 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
