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 ...

Following up on his earlier book, Computational Fairy Tales, Jeremy Kubica brings us more education in programming through stories in his newest book, this time dealing with the best practices of ...

It’s safe to say that many, if not most, of us have done this before. But maybe your rule-breaking is exactly why your code was better than average. At least it didn’t make you lose your job. Or make ...

You can take advantage of asynchronous programming to perform resource-intensive operations without having to block on executing thread of your application. This increases the throughput while at the ...

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 ...

Why do programs fail? For as far as we've come since the very first time Ada Lovelace saw the potential of universal computation in the 19th century, our software still has bugs. Over the years, even ...

The Multicore Association (MCA) just released the first Multicore Programming Practices guide that you can download for free. The MCA is also know for its array of multicore APIs including: These have ...

Throughout the years, engineers and editors have debated best practices in embedded systems programming. Here's a collection of best practices: do they still stand the test of time?