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Things That Go Boom

It is easier to make a safe light bulb than to make a safe explosive.

Abstractions For Binary Search, Part 10: Putting It All Together

After the discussions of the last few weeks, we are finally ready to build our test cases.

The Touch of a Button

Of course, I wasn't satisfied with the simple approach, so I added a bit of code to sense swipes much as you would find on a touchscreen phone.

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Farewell,Dr. Dobb's

After 38 years of glory, the long run ofDr. Dobb's has come to an end. -Design

Jolt Awards 2015: Coding Tools

The best tools available for creating, testing, and debugging code. -Jolt Awards

Thriving Among the APIs

You're about to start work on designing and publishing your product's API. Now what? -Design

The Long Death of Project Hosting Sites

Last month, Microsoft and Google bypassed their own code hosts to post major code projects on GitHub. The once-favored hosts have begun a long, familiar decline. -Web Development

Testing for Failures with Python

Writing solid code means knowing that when programs fail, they do so gracefully and predictably. Unit testing verifies this. -Testing

We Need More Agile IT Now!

While IT is becoming more Agile, the rate of change in business requires even faster adoption of Agility. -Design

Clarity of Goals: The Most Important Element of Product Success

Complete clarity and constant communication of goals are as important to a product's success as execution, perhaps more so. -Design

Building Node.js Projects in Visual Studio

Developing server-side apps with the popular Node.js framework can now be done with the full support of Visual Studio IntelliSense, debugging, and project management. -Tools

Events of Interest

December 11-12. Washington, D.C.ModevCon

March 2-6, 2015 London, UK.QCon London

March 5-8, 2015. Recife, Brazil.Tropical Ruby

March 17-19, 2015. Boston, MA.O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference

March 23-24, 2015. Palo Alto, CA.Evans Data's 11th Annual Developer Relations Conference

April 8-16, 2015. Montreal, Canada.PyCon 2015

April 27-30, 2015. Baltimore, MD.11th Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference

May 4-8, 2015. Chicago, IL. Microsoft Ignite Conference

May 12-14, 2015. Zaragoza, Spain.Protocols Plugfest Europe 2015

Videos of Past Events

September 2014.Atlassian Summit 2014

September 2013.JavaOne

June 2013.JAXConf 2013

May 2013.Google I/O

October 2012.JAXLondon 2012

September 2012.Strangeloop

July 2012.Java Language Summit

June 2012.Google I/O 2012

May 2012.Atlassian Summit

May 2012 (paid).Fluent Conference

March 2012.Multicore World

July 2011.JVM Language Summit

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• Google's Data Processing Model Hardens Up
• Did Barcode Reading Just Get Interesting?
• 20x Faster Test Scripting, Seriously
• SmartBear Supports Selenium WebDriver
• Xamarin Editions of IP*Works! & Integrator
• JetBrains Upsource 1.0 Final Release

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This month, Dr. Dobb's Journal is devoted to mobile programming. We introduce you to Apple's new Swift programming language, discuss the perils of being the third-most-popular mobile platform, revisit SQLite on Android,and much more!

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