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The JVM As Language Farm Club
No other platform today is gaining so many new and sophisticated languages as the JVM. Wasn't that the original promise behind .NET? - JVM Languages
Articles 
Language of the Month: Kotlin
The JetBrains team releases a JVM language that compiles and runs as fast as Java. It adds a multitude of new features, many of which are coated with syntactical sugar and pixie dust borrowed from Groovy and Scala - JVM Languages
A Look at the Main JVM Languages Today
The JVM hosts an increasingly wide array of languages. Here we compare the prominent ones, mourn those that have come and gone, and celebrate newborn languages clamoring for attention. - JVM Languages
Efficient Use of Lambda Expressions and std::function
Functors and std:function implementations vary widely between libraries. C++11's lambdas make them more efficient. - C/C++
Working with Dropbox
Dropbox client applets allow only basic functionality for interacting with the file storage service. To get the full breadth of capabilities, you'll need to use their SDK and write your own code - Tools
Project of the Month: TestNG
Not every coder uses xUnit frameworks for testing. Many prefer TestNG, which gets around xUnit limitations, supports testing at multiple levels (unit, functional, integration, end-to-end), and greatly facilitates data-driven tests. - Testing
The Need to Rewrite Established Algorithms
Parallel architectures, like other hardware advances before them, require us to rewrite algorithms and data structures — especially the old standbys that have served us well - Parallel
Rebuilding the Tower of Hanoi
Sometimes seemingly serial computations may be coded with parallel algorithms if you can figure out how to present the final results in the proper order. - Parallel
Using Bluetooth
Trying to communicate with a remote device with no other familiar protocol? Bluetooth provides an easy answer with well-documented specs and straightforward programming APIs. - Mobile
Best of the Web
Triple Buffering as A Concurrency Mechanism
Triple Buffering is a way of passing data between a producer and a consumer running at different rates. It ensures that the consumer sees only complete data with minimal lag.
Embedding GDB Breakpoints in C Source Code
Have you ever wanted to embed GDB breakpoints in C source code? Something like this:
printf("Hello,\n");
EMBED_BREAKPOINT;
printf("world!\n");
Writing Kernel Exploits
Why attack the kernel? Because it has a huge attack surface with potential for very interesting bugs. This presentation (pdf) takes a code-level dive into recently reported Linux-kernel exploits.
Compiling the JavaScript Engines
With growing demand for out-of-browser JavaScript (e.g., server JavaScript), a good knowledge of JavaScript engines is becoming more important.
Events of Interest
February 26-29, San Francisco, CA. SPTechCon (Sharepoint Technology Conference)
March 5-6, London, UK. QCon London
March 5-9, San Francisco, CA. Game Developers Conference
March 19-23, Denver, CO. DrupalCon
March 24-28, San Jose, CA. CGO '12. 10th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization.
March 25-30, Potsdam, Germany. AOSD '12. Aspect-oriented Software Development.
March 26-29, Reston, VA. EclipseCon 2012
April 2-3, London, U.K. Moblie 360 Live
April 2-4, San Francisco, CA. O'Reilly Where Conference
April 10-12, Santa Clara, CA. Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo
May 7-11, St. Petersburg, FL. SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference 2012
May 14-17, San Jose, CA. NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference
May 14-17, Bay Area, California. AnDevCon III (Android Developer Conference)
May 29-31, Fluent 2012: JavaScript and Beyond, San Francisco, CA.
June 4-6, Nashville, Tennessee.Magic Software Users Conference
June 11-14, Orlando, FL. Microsoft Tech-Ed
June 18-20, New York, NY. QCon New York
June 27-29, San Francisco, CA. Goole I/O Conference
July 16-20, Portland, OR. OSCON
August 20-24, Munich, Germany. DrupalCon Europe
September 23-25, St Louis, MO. StrangeLoop
September 30 - Oct 4, San Francisco, CA. JavaOne
October 22-24, San Francisco, CA. Windows Phone DevCon
October 24-25, New York City. The Strata Conference
November 7-9, San Francisco, CA. QCon
