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[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
A caffeine-starved editor does his best to stay on track.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
South American Software Development
[author : Michael Swaine]
Using Brazil to take the temperature of the South American software climate.
Inside Visual Studio 2008
[author : Dino Esposito]
Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship for developers, and Visual Studio 2008 is the first version of Visual Studio to support multiple versions of .NET.
BibPort: Creating Bibliographic References
[author : Matthew Curry and Jeffrey G. Gray]
BibPort extracts relevant information from a set of legacy documents to create a database of bibliographic references using Visual Studio Tools for Office in combination with Visual Studio 2008 and Word 2007.
Continuous LINQ
[author : Kevin Hoffman]
Continuous LINQ is just one expansion made possible through language extensions and LINQ on the .NET Framework 3.5.
The ZK Framework
[author : Andrzej Sekula]
ZK is a framework that introduces event-handling programming—backed by an AJAX engine—to web applications.
Static Testing C++ Code
[author : Carlo Milanesi]
The C++ utility Carlo presents here implements static testing automation that retrieves from the command line the paths of the files containing the static testing programs.
COLUMNS
The Agile Edge
[author : Scott W. Ambler]
Test-driven development is an important agile software development technique that lets you specify and validate functionality at a finely detailed level.
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
Herb fought the law—Amdahl's Law, that is—and Herb won.
DEPARTMENTS
Alia Vox
[author : John Graham-Cumming]
If you are not yet using virtualization in your build environment, then it's time to get moving.
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]
Microsoft's S. Somasegar discusses some of the new and unique features that Visual Studio 2008 offers developers.
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael goes through the mail.