Ubiquitous Computing In the Classroom

Editor's Note

Ubiquitous Computing In the Classroom

If you want to find out about ubiquitous computing and its impact on the classroom, Kent State University's Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET) is the place to go.

Music To Code By

There are those who have said that "rap music" is an oxymoron. Not me. But then I'm also a big fan of The Trailer Park Troubadours and Junior Brown.

In the News

xDoc Challenges Adobe Across Platforms
xDoc Server Version 2.02 creates PDF documents from Microsoft Word files more efficiently and less expensively than Adobe's PDF maker, CambridgeDocs says.

Reduced Time-to-Market: A Major Driver of R&D Outsourcing
Ability to exploit pools of skilled labor, however, remains the top driver

Microsoft Offers SOA Framework For Insurance Companies
Microsoft unveils a framework for insurance companies to leverage service-oriented architectures for integrating software applications around core business processes.

AOL To Cut 1,300 Jobs
AOL plans to cut its call-center workforce by some 1,300 positions, due to fewer calls for support from a shrinking membership.

Dr. Dobb's Podcasts

Computing in Outer Space and Nanospace
Los Alamos National Lab's new project aims to dramatically increase on-orbit computational capabilities. Also, UCLA engineers score a breakthrough in nanoscale semiconductor spin-wave research. (MP3, 3:20 mins.)

Adaptive Automated Testing
Steve Lafferty of Aberro discusses AberroTest, a new testing tool that can adapt to new application behavior on the fly and reconfigure itself, eliminating the need for writing test scripts. (MP3, 7:43 mins.)

Autonomic Computing: Computer, Heal Thyself
Jay Litkey explains what autonomic computing is and why it may be critical to the reliability of large-scale systems. (MP3, 6:16 mins.)

New Features

CodeFile and Code-Behind
The VS2003 implementation of code-behind was mandatory but also brittle. VS 2005 is more flexible, and layout/code separation is optional.

Multi-core & Multi-threaded: A New Era in Computing
Helping advance a new era in computing through new methods of thread-level parallelization

Right-brained programming
Rotating pixels, finding a square root, picking the length of a timeout on a watchdog timer--what do all these typical computing problems have in common? They're all likely to get you stuck in a rut, using the same boring algorithms. Knowing how to think creatively helps you solve all sorts of puzzles. Time to take a fresh look at some old problems.

Smalltalk: Requiem or Resurgence?
The grandaddy of the object-oriented world, Smalltalk has fascinated developers since it appeared on the programming scene.

Hares, Tortoises, and the Decorator Pattern
An empirical comparative study of the overheads carried by static and dynamic implementations of the Decorator pattern

Crossing the Chasm
The agile cost-of-change curve, with new rhetoric and shorter feedback cycles, are all helping agile to further penetrate more traditional organizations.

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