2008 Special 2010

PDF april 2009

text on archive.org (DVD)

(couverture_manquante.jpg)

EDITOR'S NOTE — Open Source Meets Mobility

[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TECHNO-NEWS

Fuzzy Logic Reveals Cells Inner Workings

FEATURES

A Moving Target

[author : Avo Reid]

A CTO looks at the development issues in choosing a mobile platform.

A First Look at Larrabee New Instructions

[author : Michael Abrash]

LRBni is a very different — and fascinating — extension to the x86 instruction set.

Smartphone Operating Systems: A Developer's Perspective

[author : Tom Thompson]

For developers, the battle lines are forming in the smartphone wars.

Three Reasons for Moving to Multicore

[author : Christopher Diggins]

Performance is at the head of the class.

Bug Labs BUG Update

[author : Mike Riley]

With the release of the 1.4, the BugLabs folks are still in the modular system programming game in a serious way.

COLUMNS

Conversations

[author : Jonathan Erickson]

Dr. Dobb's talks with the Symbian Foundation's Lee Williams.

Book Review

[author : Mike Riley]

Examining Hello Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform.

Effective Concurrency

[author : Herb Sutter]

What are thread pools for, and how can you use them effectively?