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Floating-point NaN (Not A Number) values are the Rodney Dangerfields of numerical work. They are met mostly with a baffled “what are these silly things for?” and then avoided and ignored. The D programming language, however, has elevated NaNs to a more significant role, and I’ll try to show how […]

Collaboration specialist Atlassian is using an appearance at the Agile 2012 Conference in Dallas to unveil its GreenHopper project management and planning system. Logically built to work with the firm’s Jira issue-tracking system, Atlassian is championing descriptive terms for GreenHopper including “visibility” and “predictability” as it shines a light on […]

SVP of strategy at Nokia for Qt Sebastian Nystrom has confirmed that Qt will not be used in future Nokia products. Due to a “sharpening of strategy” Nokia has confirmed that it plans to reduce up to 10,000 positions globally by the end of 2013. Subsequently, Digia announced its plans […]

Last week, I said I’d give a concrete example of how a new C++11 feature changes teaching strategy. The first such example that comes to mind is teaching how to write copy constructors. C++11 makes copy constructors harder to teach because it makes them unnecessary in many contexts in which […]

By Ted Mann Associated Press In this 2010 photo, then New York Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo, right, conducts an inspection tour of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Just days after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s staff defended raising tolls on the Tappan Zee Bridge to as much as $14 to pay for […]

Although it is coming from behind when it comes to connecting cars to a cellular network, Sprint is looking to speed past its competitors. With a deal announced Monday, Sprint will not only be the network provider for Chrysler’s Uconnect system, but also the system integrator that puts the pieces […]

By Ted Mann Subway cables burning near the DeKalb Avenue subway station in Brooklyn have disrupted rush-hour service, emergency officials said Tuesday afternoon. The two-alarm fire in a tunnel just north of the station temporarily blocked service between Manhattan to Brooklyn on five subway lines, including the heavily traveled Q, […]

Deutsche Telekom’s colorfully named Developer Garden platform has opened a new M2M Developer Community for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication solutions developers. The community offers developers access to APIs, discussion forums, programming guidelines, and SDKs to develop and sell applications for the M2M space, or — as it is increasingly being referred […]

Windows components player Syncfusion has released Metro Studio 2, a free-to-members utility that contains more than 1,700 vector-based customizable Metro icons. NOTE: Originally released in May of 2012, Metro Studio 2 is a collection of customizable Metro-style icon templates. To date, it has been downloaded over 22,000 times. All the […]