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[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
Plugging in to electrical plug-ins. And who's that changing your Wikipedia entry? Our editor deals with odds and ends.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
Smart Compilers—But Smart Enough?
[author : Michael Swaine]
Compilers are smart, but are they smart enough in the emerging world of multicore processors?
Grid-Enabling Resource-Intensive Applications
[author : Timothy Hoehn and Bob Zeidman]
Our authors take an application designed to run on a single PC and distribute its processing over a network grid.
Distributed Computing: Windows and Linux
[author : Mohamed Abo El-Fotouh and Klaus Diepold]
Mohamed and Klaus describe a distributed system in which a single Windows machine controls a Linux cluster.
Adobe AIR: Desktop/Web Convergence
[author : Oliver Goldman]
Adobe AIR is designed to enable the development of desktop applications using web technologies.
Transparency on Demand
[author : Richard Vaughan]
Richard presents a technique for loading JavaScript libraries transparently at the point of need.
Reusable Associations
[author : Martin Soukup and Jiri Soukup]
Our authors take the Model-Driven Development (MDD) concept of reusable associations and implement them for C++, C#, and Java.
COLUMNS
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
Critical sections are our One True Tool for guaranteeing mutual exclusion on shared variables.
The Agile Edge
[author : Scott W. Ambler]
Many traditionalists will claim that Agile projects are difficult to govern, but Scott says nothing could be further from the truth.
DEPARTMENTS
Alia Vox
[author : Matt Davey]
Why use WPF for complex event processing visualization?
Developer Diaries
[author : edited by Michael Swaine]
Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers.
Developer's Notebook
[author : compiled by the DDJ Staff]
New development products and new releases of existing ones.
Conversations
[author : Deirdre Blake]
Terracotta CTO Ari Zilka talks with us about the challenges ahead for distributed computing.
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael worries about the long arm of letters and the law.