Web Development
Web Development Feature Articles
Building Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems
Like most things in life, taking the time to plan ahead when building a Web service can help in the long run.
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.
Developer Reading List
New books on C, C#, Node, Win8 Apps, Perl and Groovy.
Writing Your First Windows 8 App: The Lay of the Land
A lot of the basic features of Windows apps have changed with the release of Win 8. Here is a step-by-step explanation of what's new and how to get started writing Win8-compliant apps.
Easy, Real-Time Big Data Analysis Using Storm
Conceptually straightforward and easy to work with, Storm makes handling big data analysis a breeze.
Web Development News
Developers Get "Locked Down" HTML5 Specification From W3C
Version 5 locked down, HTML 5.1 now a working draft
Sauce Labs Shares Its Open Sauce Secret
Open source focused programmers offered Selenium-based free cloud testing service
DotNetNuke 7.0 Makes Refreshed Play For Developers
Better controls, less code, and better data access: Are you interested yet?
Single Browser Plug-in SDK Covers Webcams or TWAIN Devices
Single optimized SDK to enable image capture on "myriad of devices"
API To Embed SMS Messaging Into Apps
Connect API allows customer-configurable SMS messaging with "in app" service registration
Kendo UI Brings HTML5 and Accessibility
Kendo UI is an enterprise-ready collection of HTML5 and JavaScript tools
Simplifying Complicated Analysis of Web Performance Data
New LoadComplete from SmartBear
TomTom Launches RAD Platform
Cloud-based developer platform connects to TomTom location and navigation services
Crash Report Diagnostics From Crittercism
Modules include analytics, API integration, advertising, and commerce
Legacy App Modernization Via WebMAP
App tool focused on transforming Visual Basic 6, .NET, and PowerBuilder applications
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
