FEATURES
There Must be Contest
[author : Michael Swaine]
Programming contests used to be fun. Now they're a commercial software development business—and they're still fun!
Building a Test Harness for RTOS
[author : Cort Dougan]
"Sparky," the test system for RTOS that Cort describes here, does a build of all software components and tools and runs a set of measurement, specification, and regression tests.
Qt and Windows CE
[author : Espen Riskedal]
To demonstrate how you can use Qt to build a Windows Mobile application, Espen presents an image and internationalizes it for three different languages.
Software to Hardware Parallelization
[author : Steve Casselman]
To accelerate algorithms on multi-core systems, you must first identify the code within the application that can be parallelized, then figure out how to parallelize it.
Performance Portable C++
[author : Jeff Keasler]
Performance portability means that code can achieve good performance across a range of computer architectures while maintaining a single body of source code.
COLUMNS
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
Want to kill your parallel application's scalability? Easy: Just add a dash of contention.
The Agile Edge
[author : Scott W. Ambler]
Has agile peaked? Scott crunches the numbers to find out.
DEPARTMENTS
Friday Night Fish Fry
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
First, you start with a requirements document...
Alia Vox
[author : Joel Gyllenskog]
Joel describes how Dr. Dobb's readers helped him create a better product through open peer review.
Developer Diaries
[author : edited by Michael Swaine]
Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers.
Conversations
[author : Deirdre Blake]
Sebastien Marineau-Mes talks about the world of Real-Time Operating Systems.
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael treks with the stars, as he goes where no CEO has gone before.