Soma Games and Code-Monkeys change the application game 70%: Do what makes your heart come alive. 30%: Go where it takes you. Is this utopia, or the business plan of two thriving development companies? Read on and spend time in the alternate, but very real, universe of Soma Games and Code-Monkeys. Nuts Bolts Entering the [...]

This article is sponsored by Intel AppUpSM developer program Ultrabook(TM) is the latest word in the mobile device world. Ultrabook devices are slim, lightweight, as powerful as a PC, and as portable as a tablet. Consumers want Ultrabook devices for these features, but as a software developer, what I find more interesting is understanding how [...]

Developers can now submit and distribute applications via the Intel AppUp(SM) developer program to the latest experience in personal computers called UltrabookTM. What’s an UltrabookTM? Ultrabook devices are the latest computing devices with the performance to keep up with modern users. Ultrabook empowers users with a productive worry-free system that wakes up in seconds, apps [...]

by Charles Leiserson I’m constantly amazed how many seemingly well-educated computer technologists bandy about the word parallelism without really knowing what they’re talking about. I can’t tell you how many articles and books I’ve read on parallel computing that use the term over and over without ever defining it. Many of these “authoritative” sources cite [...]