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My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment Before becoming a journalist I had had a real job as a computer graphics programmer, working with some very high-end systems that cost, believe it or not, upwards of $250,000. It was all so hard to work with, you needed a programmer to make... [11 Jul 2008]
Efficient Load Balancing for Wide-Area Divide-and-Conquer Applications
White Paper Divide-and-conquer programs are easily parallelized by letting the programmer annotate potential parallelism in the form of spawn and sync constructs. To achieve efficient program execution, the generated work load has to be balanced evenly among... [10 Jul 2008]
A Reconfigurable Architecture for Load-Balanced Rendering
White Paper The programmer species the number of tiles per pipeline stage, and the StreamIt compiler maps the computation to the Raw architecture. Commodity graphics hardware has become increasingly programmable over the last few years but has been limited to... [10 Jul 2008]
Intel Compiler Code-Coverage and Test-Prioritization Tools
White Paper Both tools improve software quality and performance as well as increase programmer productivity. This paper introduces two related tools that are based on Intel Compiler Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) technology. [30 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up He's been a programmer, a visionary, a populist and a target for custard pie throwers both real and metaphorical. Brilliant technologist, ruthless businessman, chino-trousered philanthropist, founder of the most influential technology company of... [27 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile Hamon brings a solid technical background to the CIO role, having studied computing at the London Computer Electronic School and cut her teeth as a programmer. Claire Hamon joined the construction and building maintenance company Rok Group in... [11 Jun 2008]
Using Intel Thread Profiler for Win32 Threads: Philosophy and Theory
White Paper For serial applications this was useful information that guided the programmer to those parts of the code that could most benefit from optimization or threading. In the past, software profiling tools have concentrated on measuring the execution... [31 May 2008]
IT Developer Speeds Time-to-Market Using Open XML Formats
White Paper To stay competitive and open to innovations in the software development market, Programmer's opted to use Open XML Formats when developing its electronic invoicing application. Programmer's enjoyed a 50 percent gain in productivity and improved... [30 Apr 2008]
Comparing SQL Server 2005 and IBM UDB DB2 8.2: Focus on Developer Productivity
White Paper The features discussed include both the database features and programming tools available on both platforms and how these features affect programmer productivity. This paper compares and contrasts SQL Server 2005 and DBA UDB 8.02 for the Microsoft... [30 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News The open source community's programmer-hours, if added up, would place it as the largest software employer in the world, the study said. Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating... [22 Apr 2008]
Gazing into the technological future
News Recycling and automating code to increase programmer performance 100-fold Self-charging devices and real-time language translation are among technologies pinpointed by future gazers that will change the world. [14 Apr 2008]
Effective Memory Utilization for Reliable, High-Performance Java Applications
White Paper Java was intended to be an environment free from memory errors associated with programmer-managed memory, which are common in C and C++. While a significant number of problems were eliminated, other types of memory problems became part of the Java... [10 Apr 2008]
Symbian OS C++ for Windows C++ Programmers
White Paper This paper discusses some issues that a typical Windows C++ programmer will encounter when approaching Symbian OS for the first time. While one reason for Symbian's success may be the desire of many mobile phone manufacturers not to be tied to... [10 Apr 2008]
A Comparison of Mobile Agent and Client-Server Paradigms for Information Retrieval Tasks in Virtual Enterprises
White Paper We argue that to be successful mobile agent platforms must coexist with, and be presented to the applications programmer side-by-side with, traditional client-server middleware like CORBA and DCOM, and we sketch middleware architecture for doing so. [10 Apr 2008]
Fairfield Residential LLC Improves Information Access With Flexible Human Capital Management Solution
White Paper Fairfield Residential upgraded to Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Human Capital Management applications to increase flexibility and improve efficiency of HR processes and leveraged Oracle Portal as an out-of-the box solution, enabling Fairfield... [24 Mar 2008]
