PragPub—March 2011
Table of Contents
Features
- In an era of virtual machines and managed environments, C is the original Punk Rock Language.
- Just because you are using an external web API for your site doesn’t mean that BDD principles need to go out the window.
- The three big differences cloud computing brings with it are really just modern twists on old practices.
- The fourth in this four-part series of Big Ideas in software development.
- How a great mathematician solved a classic problem and laid the theoretical foundation for modern computers.
Departments
- A Polemic on Programming and Punk Rock
- A few selected sips from the Twitter stream.
- If companies simply trusted their people, a lot of the waste on software projects would go away.
- A monthly diversion at least peripherally related to programming.
- After a slow-ish winter, things are really heating up this spring.
- John considers why Microsoft jumped onto Nokia’s burning platform.
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