Hmmmm
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
Misunderstandings happen.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
Social Networks and Software Development
[author : Michael Swaine]
If 2007 was the year that social networks "got their geek on," will 2008 be the year that programmers actually profit from them?
Detecting Bugs in Safety-Critical Code
[author : Paul Anderson]
When software is used for safety-critical applications, bugs aren't just expensive annoyances—they can kill.
Change Code Without Fear
[author : Nada daVeiga]
Behavioral regression testing is a technique that provides a fast and easy way to determine if code modifications change or break existing functionality.
Continuous Integration and Performance Testing
[author : Steven Haines]
Steven extends continuous integration to perform integration, performance, and load testing.
Wt: A Web Toolkit
[author : Wim Dumon and Koen Deforche]
Wt is a freely available library and application server that lets C++ programmers write modern web applications using a familiar C++ GUI programming style.
Automating Release Notifications
[author : Scott Miller]
Scott presents an automated approach for notifying users about updates to libraries and frameworks.
COLUMNS
The Agile Edge
[author : Scott W. Ambler]
Scott examines the myths surrounding agile software development.
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
When it comes to scalability and concurrency, more is always better.
DEPARTMENTS
Alia Vox
[author : Rakesh Kumar]
The impact of many-core processors goes beyond technical issues. Rakesh explains how they also change the economic model of how CPUs are bought and sold.
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 : Jonathan Erickson]
Jeff Lei goes beyond pairwise testing with an automated combinatorial testing technique that reduces the number of smaller tests faster.
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]
Is Bill Gates hatching a doomsday plot to eradicate all life on Earth? F. William Engdahl isn't sure.