EDITOR'S NOTE — Moblin Makes Its Move
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TECHNO-NEWS
API for Cloud Application Services Project Launched
FEATURES
Programmer Productivity
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
Multitasking is good when it comes to computer programs, letting them do more with less. But when computer programmers start multitasking, productivity flies out the door.
How Effective Is ASP.NET Partial Rendering?
[author : Dino Esposito]
It's a simple postback-based technique.
Integrating ALM: Lessons Learned Deploying Tasktop at Nokia
[author : Andy Boyle]
Tool environments in tech companies require a stronger emphasis on treating engineers as customers.
Multithreaded File I/O
[author : Stefan Wörthmüller]
Tackling the file I/O bottleneck.
Why We Need a Theory for Software Engineering
[author : Ivar Jacobseon and Ian Spence]
Our greatest challenge is understanding how to build great software.
Coming of Age in the Era of Cloud Computing
[author : Dana Moore]
Cloud computing provides virtually unlimited computing resources in a wide variety of offerings.
A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 3
[author : Gigi Sayfan]
Generating a full-fledged NetBeans build system involves multiple projects.
COLUMNS
Conversations
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
Cyndi Mitchell, managing director of Thought-Works Studios, talks about Agile development and ALM.
Book Review
[author : Mike Riley]
Ray Harr's Murach's JavaScript and DOM Scripting is an up-to-date introduction to JavaScript.
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
Perhaps the most effective way to deliver concurrency is to hide it inside "synchronous" APIs.
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]
Cousin Corbett and the Piggyback Skunkworks.