Dr. Dobb's Journal - May 2008 - (Page 4) d05TOFC_p2db 3/13/08 10:56 AM Page 4 The World of Software Development May 2008 Contents F EAT U R E S 16 Software Development Goes to the Movies Solving software problems for moviemaking has paid off for software development in general. by Michael Swaine 22 Cat: A Functional Stack-Based Little Language Cat is an intermediate language for program verification, optimization, and more! by Christopher Diggins Page 44 30 Mojax: Mobile Ajax Framework Mojax is a framework that provides the best of Ajax but on a mobile platform. by John Muchow 38 Kernel-Mode Databases A database technology for high-performance applications. by Andrei Gorine and Alexander Krivolapov 44 Getting Better Search Results Search engines are great, but more often than not that bring you too much useless information. That’s when human-aided filtering can make the difference. by Bob Zeidman COLUMNS 49 Effective Concurrency DE PARTM E NTS 6 Friday Night Fish Fry By whatever name they go by, programming languages are programming languages. by Jonathan Erickson 20 Conversations From what Paul Jansen has seen, everyone has a favorite programming language. by Deirdre Blake Stopping threads or tasks you no longer need is important for efficiency. But how do you do it? by Herb Sutter 52 The Agile Edge Scrum is an agile methodology that focuses on a subset of project management and requirements management. But some organizations are finding it can be a challenge to scale Scrum to meet the complexities of their real-world environments. by Scott W. Ambler 10 12 Alia Vox Parallel extensions to the .NET Framework. Do we need them? by Matt Davey 56 Swaine’s Flames Michael goes back to the future with John McCarthy by Michael Swaine Developer Diaries Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers. edited by Michael Swaine 4 Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l May 2008 Page 30 http://www.ddj.com
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