If you're like me, you'll be writing '2008' on your checks for a few more weeks. Which will lead you to break that new year's resolution about cursing. How can you prevent catastrophies such as these?

By knowing what's the correct day, week, month, and year. And how do you know that? With you personal copies of Dr. Dobb's Hall of Fame 2009 calendar. You can download it right now. Don't forget.

We are going to use some of our test code in production. Yes you read it right test code in production. Here are the details
In our system, among other things, we support visual search in video calls. i.e. an end user calls the system, points the camera at something she is interested, and (hopefully :) ) gets relevant information. Basically the system is made of several resources (image

The last time we addressed the question of why women are disproportionately represented in the Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) was when Mark Nelson discussed a Google blog entry that reported that not only are women underrepresented in computer science, but their numbers are dropping. A recent study at the University of  Missouri seems to concur, finding that the impact of the engineering curriculum and obstacles can impede women's success in the predominantly male discipline of engineering.

By recovering from such an error, I mean that the program is able to clean up and continue operating. This is as opposed to a non-recoverable error, where the process cleans up and exits. Far and away most places in code where an exception could be thrown are memory allocation points, so eliminating those possibilities will simplify a lot of code. This will greatly increases the range of

Recently there has been some discussion on the concatenative discussion group  about the term "concatenative language" and what it actually means. In this post I provide my definition and attempt to deconstruct it.

 This is the second part of the series of articles about merging. In the previous post I talked about automatic merges and how the version control systems solve the conflicts for you. But, whenever you start thinking about merging you'll say: "hey, what if we touch the same code?". I'll try to answer this question here.

You're in trouble: manual conflicts

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