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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...