Software “best practices” are often a combination of personal experience, corporate knowledge, group-think, and even customer requirements in some cases. As developers work to create new software or ...

Whether the subject is programming guidelines or nearly anything else, there's a difference between documenting and prescribing. Be clear on the task before you start I have been recently asked to ...

Who hasn’t stolen a cookie from the jar when Mom wasn’t looking? Or stayed out with friends long after bedtime? Or — God forbid — taken the shortcut through the park where shady people lurk, instead ...

Asynchronous programming enables you to perform resource-intensive I/O operations without having to block on the main or the executing thread of the application. Though beneficial and seemingly easy ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Multicore Association is kicking off an effort to define best programming practices for embedded multicore processors. The group hopes within a year to define and create a guide ...