Article :: Understanding C11 and C++11 Atomics

The end of 2011 brought new releases of both the C and C++ standards for the first time, with C11 sneaking in just before Christmas. David Chisnall takes a look at one of the more important features added to both standards: atomic operations.

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Article :: Windows Phone 7 Game Programming: Printing Text

This lesson covers creating a new Windows Phone project in Visual C# 2010 while learning about fonts and text drawing code.

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Article :: Remote Control Software Solves "Friends and Family" Support Issues

In this lively autobiographical article, Ed Tittel describes his long-distance quest to help his father diagnose and fix computer issues.

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Article :: C++ 11 Memory Management

Enterprise development and networking specialist Stephen B. Morris illustrates how to handle a classic C/C++ problem by using the new features in C++ 11 in conjunction with more established techniques.

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Article :: Software [In]security: vBSIMM Take Two (BSIMM for Vendors Revised)

Gary McGraw and Sammy Migues introduce a revised, compact version of the BSIMM for vendors called vBSIMM, which can be thought of as a foundational security control for vendor management of third-party software providers.

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Article :: The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Working with View Controllers

This chapter shows how to build simple menus, create view navigation trees, design tab-bar-based and page-view-based applications using view-controller-based classes.

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Article :: Programming in Objective-C

To help you understand the steps involved in keying in a program and compiling and running it, this chapter shows you how to write your first simple Objective-C program.

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Article :: Sight Unseen: Pro Tips to Supercharge Your Automated Tests

Writing tests is often a laborious and thankless activity. Much of the literature on the Web focuses on frameworks and methodology. Dhanji R. Prasanna attacks testing from a new angle: The "visual test" is a technique used by pros to improve speed, quality, and the reward of writing tests for even the most complex applications.

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Article :: Languages, Verbosity, and Java

With the new spate of programming languages emerging for the Java virtual machine and other platforms, it's more important than ever that the rules of a language make code clear and concise. But clarity and conciseness don't exactly go hand in hand. Dhanji R. Prasanna compares some of these new languages with a popular mainstay, Java, contrasts their expressiveness, and explains why Java is verbose for a reason.

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Article :: An Academy for Software Craftsmen? An Interview with Founder Ken Auer

For all the talk of craftsmanship and apprentices, there is only one commercial school in the world offering a journeyman rating: The RoleModel Software Craftsmanship Academy in Holly Springs, North Carolina. We interviewed Ken Auer to find out where the idea came from, how the program works, and why it's necessary today.

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