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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.
Access Data with REST in Windows 8 Apps
Develop and consume a REST service that provides data to a Windows Store app that uses the Grid app — using C# and XAML.
Customizing the Appearance of Windows 8 Apps
Appearance is managed by images and XML files spread throughout the app. Here's how to figure where each asset goes and how to marshal them together to give Win8 apps a finished look
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.
.NET News
Digia Launches Qt 5 Framework
Intensified graphical animations/effects plus "highly portable" apps
DotNetNuke 7.0 Makes Refreshed Play For Developers
Better controls, less code, and better data access: Are you interested yet?
Windows 8 Development At The Speed Of COBOL
Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.1 supports Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Arrives
Improvements to Windows 8 application development plus support for debugging
Windows Phone 8 Hit With Random Reboot Bug
Windows Phone 8 smartphone owners report crashes and reboots affecting their devices. Nokia says it is investigating. HTC has yet to respond.
Legacy App Modernization Via WebMAP
App tool focused on transforming Visual Basic 6, .NET, and PowerBuilder applications
Hosted TFS Server 2012 From Dynamsoft
Team Foundation Server 2012 via managed hosting with support for SQL reporting and a dedicated VM
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
Microsoft Build Details The C++ State Of The Nation
A brighter future for C++ with a new Visual C++ compiler plus Standard C++ Foundation and website
Microsoft Launches Team Foundation Service
Hosted ALM service comes out of beta, targets smaller developer groups
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
