Noam and I delivered on Tuesday a joint session called Everything New in C++ at the SELA Developer Practice.
It’s been a really fun session to work on, even though it was also a
cold reminder how easy it is to forget “The C++ Way” when you stay away...
0 replies - 1672 views - 12/09/11 by Sasha Goldshtein in News
With the release of the new SDK developers also gained access to a
new set of APIs. One of these revolves around the OS-based alert
mechanism. If you’ve used a NoDo (or pre-NoDo) device and activated a
standard system alarm or used the calendar to...
0 replies - 2580 views - 10/08/11 by Den Delimarsky in Articles
The latest version of the Eclipse development enviroment, version 3.8M1, was released today. The IDE is now on par with IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 and Netbeans 7.0.1 by adding "official" support for Java 7.
0 replies - 18279 views - 08/08/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Microsoft announced today that they will be awarding a total of $250,000 in prize money in a competition to create new security technologies for preventing memory safety vulnerabilities and exploits. The winner of the contest, dubbed the "Bluehat...
0 replies - 18026 views - 08/04/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Google has created Page Speed Service, an online service designed to help speed up the loading time of web pages. The service obtains content from your servers, rewrites the pages by applying web performance best practices and serves them to end users through...
0 replies - 13810 views - 07/28/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Right on schedule, the GA release of JDK 7 is now available. If you haven't already familiarized yourself with all the new features, check out the OpenJDK page. New features include diamond syntax, strings in switch, try-with resources, and more.
0 replies - 16560 views - 07/27/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
According to tech news site BGR, it's possible that Suresh Periyalwar, Research In Motion's head of Blackberry software, has left the company after 10 years of service. RIM has been going through a tough time recently, as their stock has fallen more than 60%...
0 replies - 12158 views - 07/26/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
Mozilla announced "Boot to Gecko" today, their take on a mobile operating system. B2G's main goal is to "pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web". Mozilla envisions an operating system based on...
2 replies - 14354 views - 07/25/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
MapReduce, Google's framework for scaling large amounts of data across computers, has been ported to Windows Azure by Microsoft. The project, code-named "Daytona", was made available under a non-commercial-use license on Friday.
0 replies - 15588 views - 07/17/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
LucidWorks Enterprise released its new version 1.8 featuring the addition of new crawl and security functionality. The platform can now crawl and index files on Windows shares and Access Control Lists (ACLs) for shared files and directories.
0 replies - 18261 views - 07/14/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Over the last three months, nominations and voting for the Jax
Innovation Awards took place, the awards ceremony which highlights
innovation and excellence in the Java programming community. Last night,
the winners of the JAX Innovation Awards were
...
0 replies - 13683 views - 06/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Today, Adobe released an update to Flex and Flash Builder 4.5, adding support for Apple's iOS and Blackberry Tablet OS Flex Projects in addition to the support for Android they added in April. The aim of this release is to give developers one single platform...
0 replies - 9865 views - 06/20/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
LexisNexis is set to launch open source data processing tools that supposedly outdo Hadoop, the current darling of the Big Data world. The new product line is called HPCC Systems, and was constructed a decade ago by the LexisNexis Risk Solutions division, who...
0 replies - 11770 views - 06/16/11 by Jim Moscater in Daily Dose
In a research paper published by Google last week, C++ was found to be the best-performing programming language in the market, trumping Java, Scala, and its own Go language after a number of tests. Today, Microsoft revealed its plans to make C++ more suited...
0 replies - 10165 views - 06/15/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Spring, the open source application framework, reached its "second and final milestone", and version 3.1 is now available. The new features include:
0 replies - 13525 views - 06/10/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
