Publishers take heed: If you don’t have the content, the readers won’t come. As a publisher of developer-related content, I spend a significant amount of time researching technical topics,
For those of you who didn’t attend Scott Ambler and Terry Quatrani’s keynote “Software Development Strategies, Philosophies, and Techniques: Traditional vs. Agile” at this week’s SD West conference, let me
previous 10-Minute Solution demonstrated the new initialization rules of C++09, which enable you to initialize standard containers (among the rest) in the following manner: vector scores = {89, 76, 98,
I recently read the book, “33 Million People in the Room” by Juliette Powell. The subtitle inspired me to get rich quick: “How to Create, Influence, and Run a Successful Business
ith the processing power of single-core chips running out of steam, hardware manufacturers have turned to multicore processors to make up for the lack of processing power increases in single-core
he days of large increases in clock frequency are behind us. It was great while it lasted, but it’s now clear that we have finally hit a frequency wall. Contrary
emember the red telephone box, once a familiar sight on the streets of London? That’s a good example of mutually exclusive access to a shared resource, although you probably didn’t
f writing software is hard, then writing applications that will take full advantage of the ever-more-prevalent multicore/multi-CPU hardware?without introducing subtle race conditions and consistency errors?is even harder. Numerous solutions have
arallel computing and concurrent programming are rapidly becoming mainstream topics for discussion in the corporate world. These are not new ideas; in fact they’ve been around for more than 30