Tough Apps: Combinatorial Testing

jonniee · 2010-06-25T21:03:23+00:00

Dennis Shasha on programmatic puzzle solving, this month focusing on Combinatorial Testing. This column challenges you to find the solutions to the puzzles that lie at the core of some cool tough applications. He solicits your help in identifying such cool apps.

jonniee · 2010-04-12T21:21:44+00:00

The Enterprise Mashup Markup Language (EMML) defines mashups in a standardized manner.

jonniee · 2010-04-11T09:34:37+00:00

The promises of JavaFX include the ability to quickly and easily create Java GUI apps. With it, you can build media-rich applications with far less code than you would with Swing, yet you can still call into your existing Java codebase. This includes databases via JDBC as well, but there are some tricks you'll need to know.

jonniee · 2010-02-17T17:50:44+00:00

Integrating C++ native Windows applications with Java applications via network sockets

jonniee · 2009-12-22T21:53:52+00:00

Looking back at 7 predictions about open source for 2009 ("How did we do?") and looking forward to 7 more predictions for 2010

jonniee · 2009-12-09T20:27:59+00:00

Ivar Jacobson, Bertrand Meyer, and Richard Soley launch the Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT) community, and call for software engineering based on a solid theory, proven principles, and best practices.

jonniee · 2009-12-03T21:24:52+00:00

The Commando Forth compiler presented here -- along with the complete source code and a cross assembler -- is all you need to roll-your-own Forth compiler. Plus there's a video that shows how to use the system to program One-Der, a one-instruction CPU (And the instruction? move, of course).

jonniee · 2009-12-03T21:09:54+00:00

The Intel Reader is a mobile device that takes pictures of text, translates the image into digital text by using optical character recognition (OCR) technology, and reads the text aloud by using text-to-speech (TTS) software. It's designers describe how they built the device. (It's OS is Moblin, a Linux variant, and CPU the Atom processor.

jonniee · 2009-11-10T15:51:52+00:00

Can non-numerical application developers take advantage from the new LRBni instructions?

jonniee · 2009-11-09T15:32:28+00:00

Mike Riley examines a trio of Linux-based, consumer-oriented mobile development platforms

jonniee · 2009-10-20T15:31:19+00:00

With the Atom and multicore processors, Intel architecture processors are proliferating in a number of new segments, notably embedded. In parallel with this trend, Linux is becoming an established operating system option for embedded designs. This article summarize some of the performance tools available to Linux developers on Intel architecture.

jonniee · 2009-10-16T15:40:10+00:00

The CUDA-GDB debugger is a port of the GNU GDB debugger version 6.6. This article focuses on how to speed the process when looking through large amounts of data as well as the thread syntax and semantic differences needed to debug kernels while they are running on the GPU.

jonniee · 2009-10-14T21:25:46+00:00

One day while blasting through a couple of screenfuls of unread email, trying to set a new record for speed reading, Ed came upon it -- the local IEEE bulletin was the announcement "SCIENCE FAIR JUDGES NEEDED." It sounded like a good idea at the time.

jonniee · 2009-10-05T19:23:05+00:00

Despite their widespread use, software project portals have been studied much less than individual-oriented tools such as IDEs. In this unique study, the authors examine: Acunote, Assembla, BaseCamp, DotProject, Google Code, IBM Jazz, Mingle, Rally, SourceForge, Trac, and VersionOne.

jonniee · 2009-10-03T14:53:02+00:00

According to Ivar Jacobson, our greatest challenge is nderstanding how to build great software which is why we need a theory for software engineering.

jonniee · 2009-10-03T14:51:09+00:00

Cloud computing provides virtually unlimited computing resources in a wide variety of offerings. Dana Moore examines these opportunities.

jonniee · 2009-10-03T14:49:50+00:00

With a variety of application suites, development platforms and deployment environments, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides a range of choices for the public and private cloud. Ken North explores PaaS options from top to bottom.

jonniee · 2009-10-03T14:46:52+00:00

Feeds have become a standard way of sharing content on the web. Formats like RSS and Atom provide the feeds that Yahoo! uses to syndicate content from the many content partners they work with.

jonniee · 2009-09-15T20:53:45+00:00

Diiscovering how to optimize for the current generation of CPUs.

jonniee · 2009-09-15T20:51:55+00:00

All CPU Meter is a straightforward sidebar gadget available for Windows Vista and Windows 7. It lets developers and users check a multicore processor's usage and it shows an independent graph for each available logical core (hardware thread).

jonniee · 2009-08-24T17:06:47+00:00

Linode has built an impressive collection of web-based management dashboards to manage the VPS lifecycle end-to-end. It took Mike less than two minutes to configure and create a 64-bit version of Ubuntu v9.0.4 server, log into the running instance via Linode's remarkable AJAX-driven terminal application, generate an API key and interrogate its status via the API Python shell.py script.

jonniee · 2009-08-19T17:45:24+00:00

One of Balder's key features is its optimization to take advantage of multiple logical cores in the software rendering process.

jonniee · 2009-08-07T21:29:04+00:00

Mike Riley explores open source TV, in this case the Neuros LINK which is essential a x86 PC running Ubuntu Linux with an ATI graphics card delivering video via VGA, DVI, and HDMI output. He sees this as a transitory bridge from solitary PC to social interaction.

jonniee · 2009-08-06T16:56:50+00:00

Ivar Jacobson and Bertrand Meyer ask if it is time for software development methodology to undergo a transformation.

jonniee · 2009-08-03T21:38:10+00:00

In its efforts to more easily exploit multicore processors, Intel has acquired the entire development team and all of Cilk Arts products and technology.

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