21 Great Resources for Asp.Net Developer
Almost everything can be found on these sites, but if you can’t find a code out there then you can log in to there forums. With a large fan-base &... more »
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Developer Lessons from Diablo II
Think you can't learn anything useful from a video game for development? Well, spend a few hundred hours on Diablo II and you might learn some of... more »
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LLVM's Clang Compiler Achieves Self-Hosting
Self-sufficiency is a major milestone for any compiler technology. The LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) developers were pleased to announce that... more »
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Java vs C++? Really?
The question that is often posed in one rhetorical flourish or another is this: Which is better (faster, more efficient, blah blah blah...) Java or... more »
Can you sort 10 million numbers using 1MB of memory?
A number requires 4 bytes and 10 million will need 40 megabytes of memory. A classic problem that has been taken from the Programming Pearls series,... more »
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Creating and Using Your Own Delegates in Objective-C
I've been doing iPhone development for about a year now and have used the delegation pattern many times. Specifically with regards to UITableViews and... more »
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HipHop on GitHub
Link to the recently open sourced "HipHop for PHP" runtime.
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Daily Dose - Facebook Open Sources PHP Innovations
Facebook unveiled the PHP transformer its been using to scale its massive social networking site and released it on GitHub under the open source PHP... more »
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Facebook’s PHP Runtime HipHop, now Open Source
A look at how it does that
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Facebook creates faster PHP compiler, increasing the speed by 80%
The rumors have been flying over what's going on over at Facebook headquarters. The word has been that a PHP team was brought in and made to sign... more »
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World's Smallest Operating System
BareMetal is a new Open source OS that beats all previous records of the size. It's not in MBs, but few...
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A couple of nice C++0x readings
The last days I was going through some introductory C++0x material and noticed that this nice article by Bjarne Stroustrup isn't linked in some of the... more »
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C++: A language for next generation web apps
On Monday, I was pleased to be an uninvited speaker at Waterloo Devhouse, hosted in Postrank's magnificent office. After making some surreptitious... more »
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Amplifying C
Having programmed in C++ professionally for well over 10 years I have learned all of it. I have all the books, I know all the tricks. And I don’t like... more »
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IPhone Development - Part 2
Creating an app that allows for iPhone rotation from side to side, as well as creating functions that take multiple arguments and writing a custom... more »
The Real Reason Outsourcing Continues To Fail
Outsourcing is hard...but why so? Find out the REAL reason outsourcing continues to fail...and how to address it.
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Using structured patterns as a basis for high-level parallel programming #7: Reduce
In this blog post Mike McCool examines the use of reductions, which are used in many algorithms to compute error metrics and termination conditions... more »
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Getting the System Up Time (C# / .NET)
Sometimes it is necessary to know how much time has passed since Windows was started. This article demonstrates two ways to obtain this information... more »
The Invention of C++ - The Lost Interview
On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE's 'Computer' magazine. Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving... more »
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Outdated Curriculums - Are CS Students Being Cheated?
Are CS students being cheated out of their parents hard earned money by being taught 20 year old technologies that don't even work on modern... more »
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Global Illumination in 99 lines of C++
smallpt is a global illumination renderer. It is 99 lines of C++, is open source, and renders the above scene using unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing... more »
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Speaking the Java language without an accent
Learning a new programming language is easier than learning a new spoken language. But, in both endeavors, it takes extra effort to learn to speak the... more »
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Coder's Game: The Queue ICPC Challenge
The online battle for coding supremacy is ready to begin. The 2010 Queue ICPC Challenge, which begins this week, is a programming competition based on... more »
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Hiring Ren and Stimpy
Suppose you had two new junior developers at your company: Ren and Stimpy. Both have similar backgrounds, education and experience. Both passed the... more »
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Java vs. C++: The Performance Showdown — Developer.com
Java vs. C++: The Performance Showdown
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