Dr. Dobb's

Dr. Dobb's Journal

Highlights, December 2008

Features

http://www.ddj.com/ architect/212000189 The Man Who Sold the Sky by 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.	http://www.ddj.com/ web-development/212000386 Performance on Rails by Jeremy Weiskotten Jeremy presents strategies for identifying common performance problems in Ruby on Rails applications—and shares ways to fix them.
http://www.ddj.com/ database/212001058 LINQ-to-SQL and T-SQL by Dino Esposito LINQ-to-SQL, an API for working with data in a SQL Server database, fully supports the LINQ syntax for running queries.	http://www.ddj.com/ java/212001090 A Remote Java RMI Registry Oliver Haase, Juergen Waesch, and Bo Zhao Our authors present a custom registry that objects can register with remotely.
http://www.ddj.com/ database/212001281 Beyond B-Trees by Konstantin Knizhnik Of all the indexes that can order records in database-management systems, only B-Trees indexes are offered universally.	http://www.ddj.com/ hpc-high-performance-computing/212001285 File Descriptors and Multithreaded Programs by Sergey Babkin Sergey applies design patterns to parallel programming.

Columns

Effective Concurrency

by Herb Sutter
Understanding parallel performance. How do you know when good is good enough?

The Agile Edge

by Scott Ambler
There's nothing simple about complex requirements and agile projects. Still with a discipline and a little luck...

Departments

Friday Night Fish Fry

by 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

by Charles E. Leiserson
Making a case for a concurrency platform.

Developer Diaries

edited by Michael Swaine
Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers.

Conversations

by Deirdre Blake
Paul Grabscheid has thoughts on the direction that databases are going.

Swaine's Flames

by Michael Swaine
Michael looks at tech strategies for hard times. (Panhandling programmers? Riding the Rails?)


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