FEATURES
The Man Who Sold the Sky
[author : Michael Swaine]
Greg Wyler's mission is to make the Internet accessible and affordable to the "other three billion" people in the developing world, enriching lives and ensuring fair and equal access to information throughout.
Performance on Rails
[author : Jeremy Weiskotten]
Jeremy presents strategies for identifying common performance problems in Ruby on Rails applications—and shares ways to fix them.
LINQ-to-SQL and T-SQL
[author : Dino Esposito]
LINQ-to-SQL, an API for working with data in a SQL Server database, fully supports the LINQ syntax for running queries.
A Remote Java RMI Registry
[author : Oliver Haase, Juergen Waesch, and Bo Zhao]
Our authors present a custom registry that objects can register with remotely.
Beyond B-Trees
[author : Konstantin Knizhnik]
Of all the indexes that can order records in database-management systems, only B-Trees indexes are offered universally.
File Descriptors and Multithreaded Programs
[author : Sergey Babkin]
Sergey applies design patterns to parallel programming.
COLUMNS
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
Understanding parallel performance. How do you know when good is good enough?
The Agile Edge
[author : Scott W. Ambler]
There's nothing simple about complex requirements and agile projects. Still with a discipline and a little luck...
DEPARTMENTS
Friday Night Fish Fry
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
We hear a lot about Java and C++, but that doesn't mean they're the only languages developers are using.
Alia Vox
[author : Charles E. Leiserson]
Making a case for a concurrency platform.
Developer Diaries
[author : edited by Michael Swaine]
Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers.
Conversations
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
Paul Grabscheid has thoughts on the direction that databases are going.
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael looks at tech strategies for hard times. (Panhandling programmers? Riding the Rails?)