Dr. Dobb's Journal - March 2008 - (Page 44)

SD WEST 2008 CONFERENCE & EXPO FREE TECHNICAL SESSIONS FIND CODE. FIND ANSWERS Presented by Ken Krugler, co-founder and CTO Wednesday, March 5 | 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Overview: Krugle Enterprise indexes and organizes source code and other enterprise development resources into a searchable and linkable asset, and allows developers to easily find code and the documentation that supports it. This technical session will show how Krugle Enterprise helps developers be more efficient as they learn new code, find and fix bugs, work with loosely coupled systems (eg: SOA), and leverage open source software. PUTTING OPEN SOURCE TO WORK FOR QUALITY AND SECURITY Presented by David Maxwell, Coverity Wednesday, March 5 | 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Overview: Partnering with the Department of Homeland Security, Coverity has enabled open source developers to identify and correct more than 7,500 software defects leveraging static source code analysis from www.scan.coverity.com. Many of these defects were in widely used open source projects, which could have affected millions of people if they were not discovered and corrected. In this presentation, participants will receive a detailed look at the security and quality challenges confronting open source software and how developers are leveraging new technology to improve the quality of their open source code. DATABASE SECURITY CHALLENGES FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS - BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR DATA SECURITY Presented by: Liviu Groza, PhD, CISSP, GSEC, FairCom Security Officer and Randal Hoff, B.S. EE & CE, FairCom Engineering Services Wednesday, March 5 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Overview: In today's information-centric age, our most valuable asset is often our data. Whether stored in a phone, laptop or in a server farm, protecting this important asset is (or should be) of great importance to every developer. Using FairCom's c-treeACE embedded database engine as a model, this presentation will focus on techniques for securing data and applications including discussions of real-world scenarios implemented using c-treeACE. CODE, STRUCTURE, ARCHITECTURE – THE MAGIC TRIANGLE Presented by: Chris Chedgey, CEO, Headway Software Wednesday, March 5 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Overview: We're all too familiar with the way poorly organized code sucks the life out of developers. But how to get from a big unstructured code-base to an organized one, without disrupting ongoing development? This talk shows how a model can be extracted from the code and analyzed, measured and understood. Based on this understanding an architectural model can be defined and gaps between it and the as-built code identified. Finally, by warning developers if their changes violate the defined layering, the Magic Triangle is completed and the code evolves toward the target architecture. As well as general principles, specific technical considerations for C/C++ & Java will be explained with examples. PEER CODE REVIEW DOESN'T HAVE TO SUCK Presented by: Jason Cohen, Founder, Smart Bear Software Wednesday, March 5 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Overview: Peer code reviews can be one of the most effective ways to find bugs, however developers hate heavy process and it's easy to waste time. Jason Cohen describes how lightweight code review practices can succeed where more cumbersome methods fail. You will see best practices on the mechanics of lightweight code reviews and a comparison of five common styles of review. Jason provides advice on how to build checklists and describes what metrics really mean. REGISTER TODAY AT WWW.SDEXPO.COM! http://www.scan.coverity.com http://www.scan.coverity.com http://WWW.SDEXPO.COM

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Dr. Dobb's Journal - March 2008 Contents Hmmmm Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer’s Notebook Social Networks and Software Development Conversations Detecting Bugs in Safety-Critical Code Change Code Without Fear Continuous Integration and Performance Testing Wt: A Web Toolkit Automating Release Notifications The Agile Edge Effective Concurrency Swaine’s Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - March 2008

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