Editorial
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
NetBeans 4.1 & Eclipse 3.1
[author : Eric J. Bruno]
NetBeans 4.1 and Eclipse 3.1 are at the forefront when it comes to development platforms for J2SE, J2EE, and J2ME.
Visual Studio 2005 Visualizers
[author : James Avery]
"Visualizers" are Windows Forms dialogs in Visual Studio 2005 that let you create graphical views into the value of an object.
The Eclipse Modeling Framework
[author : Frank Budinsky]
The Eclipse Modeling Framework helps you define models, from which many common code-generation patterns are generated.
The TMS Development Platform
[author : Alexander Frey]
The TMS build system offers a simple, powerful way to do multiplatform development.
The VSTSEclipse Project
[author : Joe Sango]
The VSTSEclipse project is focusing on an Eclipse plug-in for utilizing Visual Studio Team System functionality outside the VSTS framework.
Performance Diagnosis & .NET Applications
[author : Ramkumar N. Chintalapati and Sachin Ashok Wagh]
The authors present a tool that lets you identify .NET-related problems and resolve bottlenecks during performance analysis.
Moving To .NET 2.0
[author : Eric Bergman-Terrell]
.NET 2.0, C# 2.0, and Visual Studio 2005 include a host of new features.
Finding Binary Clones with Opstrings & Function Digests: Part II
[author : Andrew Schulman]
Andrew continues his examination of reverse engineering, this month, focusing on binary code.
NPTL: The New Implementation of Threads for Linux
[author : L. Blunt Jackson]
Introduced with Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel, the Native POSIX Thread Library brings full compliance to the POSIX Standard.
Porting Compilers & Tools to 64 Bits
[author : Steven Nakamoto and Michael Wolfe]
Rehosting compilers and tools to 64-bit processors may not be as difficult as you think.
An STL-Compatible Hybrid of Linked List & Hash Map
[author : William Nagel]
"Linked_hash" is an STL-compatible data structure based on the best of the linked-list hash-map classes.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
A Reusable Duff Device
[author : Ralf Holly]
Duff's Device is a special kind of loop-unrolling mechanism that's useful when performance counts.
COLUMNS
Programming Paradigms
[author : Michael Swaine]
Embedded Space
[author : Ed Nisley]
Chaos Manor
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Programmer's Bookshelf
[author : Jacek Sokulski]
FORUM
Letters
[author : you]
Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner
[author : Dennis E. Shasha]
News & Views
[author : Shannon Cochran]
Of Interest
[author : Shannon Cochran]
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]