Microsoft set off a furor among developers this week when it disclosed that Visual Studio 2005 won't be fully compatible with Vista and that older versions of Visual Studio won't be supported at all on Vista. Microsoft pledged to smooth out the Visual Studio 2005 software conflicts with a patch "soon" after Vista's release.
In the field of log and IT data, Splunk is king. And the vendor continues to reign in that arena with Splunk Professional Server 2.1, which marks another milestone in error log collection and detection.
Harvey Sugar describes how to efficiently code communications protocols using C++, using C++ classes to implement a layered protocol and demonstrates how the tasking/queuing model can be separated from the layered implementation.
This unusual and creative approach to standard C programming can save space and time in your design without losing C's efficiency. A clever piece for all embedded systems programmers.
The SPAMMED Architecture Framework Arnon presents here helps you identify the steps and activities you need to design, model, and build successful architectures.
Mike McCullough reviews briefly on the history of the Eclipse framework and provides details and perspective on new additions to the Web-based IDE, such as Eclipse Plugin Central (EPIC), Callisto, BIRT, and CDT
Verification engineer Mike Mintz (shown) developed two open-source programs aimed at helping IC designers do hardware verification with C++. He also co-authored a book on that topic.
