FEATURES
Engineers Without Borders
[author : Michael Swaine]
Engineers Without Borders is an international humanitarian aid organization that mobilizes volunteer professionals to solve critical problems in the developing world.
Patricia Tries
[author : Konstantin Knizhnik]
Specialized indexes like the Patricia Trie can lead to faster development and more efficient code.
Event-Based Architectures
[author : Ted Faison]
Event-Based Architectures simplify system design, development, and testing because they minimize relationships between system parts.
Graphs Versus Objects
[author : John Hebeler and Matt Fisher]
Graph-based development can help in all areas of knowledge management, including Web 2.0 and beyond.
Lock-Free Queues
[author : Petru Marginean]
One thread can write and another read—at the same time!
Dr. Dobb's Architecture & Design World
[author : Amber Ankerholz]
Previewing what's to come at an exciting upcoming event.
Java and the Nokia N10 Internet Tablet
[author : Eric J. Bruno]
The Nokia N810 isn't really a phone. It's a Linux-based Internet tablet with wireless connection options—and you can write and run Java applications with it.
COLUMNS
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
Linked Lists and Balanced Search Trees are familiar data structures, but can they make the leap to parallelized environments?
The Agile Edge
[author : Scott W. Ambler]
Does Agile scale to big—make that "really big"—team sizes?
DEPARTMENTS
Friday Night Fish Fry
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
Microsoft almost said "yahoo" about open source. But the key word is "almost."
Alia Vox
[author : Bil Lewis]
Bill says just say "No!" to overflow.
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.
Conversations
[author : Deirdre Blake]
David Kranz talks about the architect's role in the world of RIA development.
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]
Slow nights at the Foo Bar can lead to some lively conversation.