The Art of Programming Martin reviews Don Knuth's four new "fascicles" from The Art of Computer Programming, discusses test-first programming, and talks about a Buffalo NAS device. Mon, 29 May 2006
Alarums and Excursions Martin builds a data access layer with SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, parses a Word document, puts his world in his briefcase, and surveys his wireless neighborhood. Mon, 1 May 2006
UMPCs and the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Martin gets excited by the Microsoft UMPC announcement, but winds up trying out a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Mon, 27 Mar 2006
StarLogo TNG Martin examines the preview edition StarLogo TNG, a 3D version of StarLogo that uses a graphical programming language, and looks at the progress of F#. Mon, 6 Mar 2006
More AJAX Martin looks at AJAX in Ruby on Rails and Microsoft Atlas. Mon, 6 Feb 2006
From the Archives
The Mighty Amazon Martin explores the Amazon Web Services SDK, and takes a quick look at two tool updates: Visual SlickEdit 9 and InstallShield X. Mon, 21 Jun 2004
UMPCs and the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Martin gets excited by the Microsoft UMPC announcement, but winds up trying out a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Mon, 27 Mar 2006
Curl Curl, a language optimized to deliver "rich client applications for the Web-enabled enterprise," originated in a DARPA research project at MIT. Mon, 30 Jun 2003
Virtual PC, Linux, and a Few Bugs Martin deals with testing on more Linux distributions and Windows versions than he has computers, and tracks down a couple of annoying bugs. Mon, 27 Sep 2004
More AJAX Martin looks at AJAX in Ruby on Rails and Microsoft Atlas. Mon, 6 Feb 2006
Avalon, Redux Martin gives an update on Software Factories, looks at the Microsoft Avalon Community Technology Preview, and examines the third-party implementation of Avalon, Xamlon Pro 1.0. Mon, 13 Dec 2004
Longhorn and Whidbey, Part 1: Avalon Martin dives into the Microsoft OS codenamed Longhorn, the Longhorn SDK, and the upcoming Visual Studio release, codenamed Whidbey. Mon, 12 Jan 2004
The Water Language Martin investigates yet another XML-based language. Mon, 6 Jan 2003
Software Factories Software Factories offer a way to gain economy of scope when developing software product lines. Microsoft is previewing one component needed for Software Factories—an object model design tool for developing and applying Domain-Specific Languages. Mon, 15 Nov 2004
WS-X and WSE 2 The WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-Addressing, and WS-Policy specifications all add functionality to the XML Web services and WS-Security specifications. Microsoft has implemented all of that for the .NET Framework in its Web Services Enhancements 2.0 release. Mon, 8 Sep 2003
Finding Runtime Concurrency Errors in Multithreaded Java Applications Join Coverity on June 3 at 9:00 a.m. for a web seminar "Finding Runtime Concurrency Errors in Multi-threaded Applications." In this session Thomas Schultz of Coverity's Advanced Technology Group will offer a presentation and demonstration of Coverity Thread Analyzer for Java, a new dynamic analysis solution for multithreaded Java applications that automatically and predictably detects existing and potential race conditions and deadlocks that can cause deadly application behavior. Register today and find out how to:
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Solving the Multicore Programming Problem Processor raw speed gains are hitting a brick wall of power consumption. The voracious appetite for performance now must be sated through the use of multiple CPUs. The problem: multicores are hard to program. Chuck Moore of AMD said "To make effective use of multicore hardware today, you need a PhD in computer science." Learn how Gedae expands the pool of multicore developers while offering unrivaled performance and productivity. Event Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
