EDITOR'S NOTE — OS: Does That Mean Operating Systems, Open Source, or Both?
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ALIA VOX
Speeding Up Software Development Using Embedded Scripting
[author : Harry H. Cheng]
DEVELOPER DIARIES
Mashups and Match Ups
[author : Michael Swaine]
CONVERSATIONS
What's Open About OpenSolaris?
[author : Jonathan Erickson]
SWAINE'S FLAMES
Virtual Is Its Own Reward
[author : Michael Swaine]
FEATURES
It's Time To Get Good At Functional Programming
[author : Michael Swaine]
If you've been wondering what functional programming is all about, don't wait any longer. Michael examines functional languages like Scala, F#, Erlang, and Haskell, and Mike Riley adds a note about functional programming with Mathematica.
.NET Development on Linux
[author : Eric Bergman-Terrell]
Eric finds out that a VM and Mono comes in handy when creating C# .NET programs. In addition to Linux, Mono lets you develop and run .NET client and server applications on Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX.
The DOORS OS
[author : Walter O. Krawec]
Even though the DOORS OS is an operating system designed to run on the HC11, there's nothing stopping you from porting the code to your processor of choice.
Lock Options
[author : Bartosz Milewski]
The two major problems in concurrent programs are data races and deadlocks. The solution that Bartosz presents here is based on a deadlock-avoidance protocol.
The iPhone Application Builder
[author : Bob Cusick]
Why bother writing apps for Apple?s iPhone when you can write an app to write the apps.
COLUMNS
Effective Concurrency
[author : Herb Sutter]
When it comes to scalability and concurrency, more is always better.
Disciplined Agility
[author : Scott W. Ambler]
Scott examines the myths surrounding agile software development.