FEATURES
Software Development Goes to the Movies
[author : Michael Swaine]
Solving software problems for moviemaking has paid off for software development in general.
Cat: A Functional Stack-Based Little Language
[author : Christopher Diggins]
Cat is an intermediate language for program verification, optimization, and more!
Mojax: Mobile Ajax Framework
[author : John Muchow]
Mojax is a framework that provides the best of Ajax but on a mobile platform.
Kernel-Mode Databases
[author : Andrei Gorine and Alexander Krivolapov]
A database technology for high-performance applications.
Getting Better Search Results
[author : Bob Zeidman]
Search engines are great, but more often than not that bring you too much useless information. That's when human-aided filtering can make the difference.
COLUMNS
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
Stopping threads or tasks you no longer need is important for efficiency. But how do you do it?
The Agile Edge
[author : Scott W. Ambler]
Scrum is an agile methodology that focuses on a subset of project management and requirements management. But some organizations are finding it can be a challenge to scale Scrum to meet the complexities of their real-world environments.
DEPARTMENTS
Friday Night Fish Fry
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
By whatever name they go by, programming languages are programming languages.
Alia Vox
[author : Matt Davey]
Parallel extensions to the .NET Framework. Do we need them?
Developer Diaries
[author : edited by Michael Swaine]
Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers.
Conversations
[author : Deirdre Blake]
From what Paul Jansen has seen, everyone has a favorite programming language.
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael goes back to the future with John McCarthy.