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RadRails and Podcasting
Kyle Shank of RadRails talks about using podcasts to promote new releases of the RadRails IDE. He also compares his experiences at this years' EclipseCon and Canada on Rails. Part 2 of 2. (MP3 9:15 min)
April 28, 2006
Database Design: How Table Normalization Can Improve Performance
Database table normalization can improve performance.
April 26, 2006
Visual Studio 2005: Unstable and Highly Recommended
Dr. Dobb's recently sat down with some industry experts who use Visual Studio 2005 on a daily basis to get their impressions about its stability and usefulness.
April 21, 2006
Maven: Building Complex Systems
Maven is all about large-scale Java-based software projects. It advocates a standard lifecycle, standard directory layout, various best practices, extensive reports, documentation facilities, and it is totally extensible through plug-ins to boot.
April 21, 2006
Checkpointing, CHPOX, and Linux
Checkpointing lets you grab a snapshot of the current state of a program in execution, then save it on disk.
April 21, 2006
Euclid Over Hamming by a Few dB
In coding and modulation theory, an interesting parameter is called Euclidean distance.
April 19, 2006
Wireless Braille Keyboard and Virtual Dogs
Robotiker-Tecnalia has designed a wireless Braille keyboard. Also, scientists at the Royal Veterinary College are modeling the mechanics of canine locomotion. (MP3, 2:23 mins.)
April 18, 2006
Offshoring confidential
Whether it's across the street or around the planet, outsourcing jobs is a fixture of engineering life. Here are the top five tips from one who's seen it all.
April 17, 2006
Project Management
Greg Wilson reviews Applied Software Project Management by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene and Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail by George Stepanek.
April 7, 2006
Domain-Specific Languages & DSL Workbench
Domain-specific languages can enable richer development environments than those provided by general-purpose languages.
April 7, 2006
Corrigan sees double-digit chip growth returning
Semiconductor industry icon Wilfred J. Corrigan said he is “confident” that 15 percent annual growth rates can be achieved by the semiconductor industry again, driven by consumer electronics spending of some two billion new consumers in China, India, countries that were part of the Soviet Union, and Middle East nations.
April 5, 2006
Frequent Flyer
Weariness reigns when I'm duty-bound to shuttle back and forth between Epsilon's development center and field office. Still, the trips are well worth the hassle.
April 1, 2006
Come, Let's Play
David Harel and Ramy Marelly wrap scenarios into sequence-like diagrams to describe interactions with other systems. Can they shift our perspective on programming?
April 1, 2006
VS 2005 Team System
Lifecycle management meets IDEs as Microsoft enters the fray with its Visual Studio Team System, upping the ante in an already competitive market.
April 1, 2006
A Special Guide-MDA and UML Tools: CASE 2.0—or the Developer's Dream
The quest for model-driven application development that drives model-to-code and model-to-model transformation still needs some work, but the MDA products out there show huge promise.
April 1, 2006
Gearing Up for Modeling, Microsoft Style
Members of Microsoft's Modeling Team speak with Software Development magazine about Visual Studio Team System's modeling tools and Microsoft's thoughts about modeling in general.
April 1, 2006
An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time
Making a slow program fast can lead to both joy and frustration. But sometimes a new approach yields amazing improvements.
April 1, 2006
Dependency Management
John explores the irony of Make.
April 1, 2006
Consuming .NET Web Services in Oracle JDeveloper
Max uses Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.2 to examine the problems you must overcome when consuming ATL/.NET web services in Java clients that rely on Apache SOAP.
April 1, 2006
Managed C++ and the Side-by-Side Cache
The Visual Studio installer places Visual Studio shared libraries in a location called the "side-by-side cache." Here's what you need to know to leverage it.
April 1, 2006
Accelerating Compute Intensive Functions Using C
Joe examines how you accelerate application processing using a software-configurable architecture to achieve hardware-accelerated performance in C.
April 1, 2006
Tight Code
Ed builds an ISBN bar-code scanner.
April 1, 2006
April 2006 Of Interest
April 2006 Of Interest.
April 1, 2006
Dr. Dobb's Journal April 2006
Algorithms (13.4 MB)
April 1, 2006
Feedback
In which our readers both praise and criticize PSP, make the case for CASE tools and query Sun's click-thru license.
April 1, 2006
Diary-Based Engineering
Ten years ago, text-based systems defined today's products.
April 1, 2006
Don't Jump In Blind
Eclipse's rich ecosystem is still evolving to respond to the risks associated with a free platform. You must know why, how and when developers use Eclipse tools.
April 1, 2006
Emergency Exit Books
Suppose your office caught on fire and you only had time to grab three books from your technical library? Which three would you choose?
April 1, 2006
Squaring the Circle
Jerry teaches Avery and Alphonse about the relationship between the number of dependencies and the number of classes in a cycle. But why should they care?
April 1, 2006


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