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The Art of Programming Martin reviews Don Knuth's four new "fascicles" from The Art of Computer Programming, discusses test-first programming, and talks about a Buffalo NAS device. Mon, 29 May 2006
Alarums and Excursions Martin builds a data access layer with SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, parses a Word document, puts his world in his briefcase, and surveys his wireless neighborhood. Mon, 1 May 2006
UMPCs and the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Martin gets excited by the Microsoft UMPC announcement, but winds up trying out a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Mon, 27 Mar 2006
StarLogo TNG Martin examines the preview edition StarLogo TNG, a 3D version of StarLogo that uses a graphical programming language, and looks at the progress of F#. Mon, 6 Mar 2006
More AJAX Martin looks at AJAX in Ruby on Rails and Microsoft Atlas. Mon, 6 Feb 2006
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The Kid's Programming Language Martin looks at the Kid's Programming Language and investigates ReSharper, a C# refactoring add-on for Visual Studio .NET 2003. Mon, 10 Oct 2005
REALbasic Martin examines REALbasic for Windows 5.5.3, gets his feet wet in the Linux pond, and takes a quick look at Komodo 3.0. Mon, 9 Aug 2004
Self, Slate, and Prothon Two new programming languages, Slate and Prothon, have a common ancestor in Self. Mon, 31 May 2004
XL and Concept Programming Martin investigates the XL programming language, and begins looking at Longhorn. Mon, 8 Dec 2003
F#: ML for .NET Despite its status as a relatively small Microsoft research project, F# is an interesting demonstration of what can be done to implement a mixed functional/imperative programming language for the .NET framework. Mon, 11 Aug 2003
Ch, Redux Martin looks at key features of the Ch C99 interpreter, library and shell. Mon, 18 Oct 2004
Ruby on Rails Martin looks at the Ruby on Rails web development framework, talks about AJAX and Microsoft's Atlas announcement, and discusses the original thesis on refactoring. Mon, 25 Jul 2005
Programming for the Tablet PC Martin explores the current state of Tablet PC programming, and examines the new Fujitsu Stylistic ST5020 Tablet PC. Mon, 10 Jan 2005
Curl Curl, a language optimized to deliver "rich client applications for the Web-enabled enterprise," originated in a DARPA research project at MIT. Mon, 30 Jun 2003
Erlang Martin examines Erlang, a language for programming concurrent, real-time, distributed fault-tolerant systems. Mon, 10 Mar 2003
DevSuite 7 Discussion Dr. Dobb's talks to TechExcel's Joel Ferman and Paul Unterberg about
their company's recently released DevSuite 7 Application Lifecycle
Management suite.
The Rubinius Project Dr. Dobb's talks with Rubinius Founder and Project Lead Evan Phoenix
about the major Rubinius announcement made at this year's RailsConf 2008 event.
In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
