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Dr. Dobb's Journal - May 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Software Development Goes to the Movies Cat: A Functional Stack-Based Little Language Mojax: Mobile Ajax Framework Kernel-Mode Databases Getting Better Search Results Effective Concurrency The Agile Edge

Dr. Dobb's Journal - May 2008

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