Dr. Dobb's Journal - August 2008 - (Page 4)

The World of Software Development August 2008 Contents F EAT U R E S 16 20 OpenGL and Mobile Devices: Round 2 It’s been a couple of years since Richard wrote about the intersection of OpenGL and mobile devices. And my word—the world has changed, thanks in part to devices such as Apple’s iPhone. by Richard S. Wright Jr. A Conversation with Christos Papadimitriou Christos Papadimitriou is this year’s recipient of the Katayanagi Prize for Research Excellence. In this exclusive interview, Dr. Dobb’s and Christos discuss subjects ranging from the economics of the programming market to the “computer scientist as popular novelist.” by Jack Woehr 30 Ellipse Specification Using Vectors 36 Embed Custom GUIs in WPF The FlowDocument class in the Windows Presentation Framework— the graphics and user interface engine in .NET 3.0—lets you easily manipulate documents containing rich content. by Eric Bergman-Terrell Page 20 The program Robert presents here demonstrates a method for rendering ellipses that’s suited to the specific task of aligning ellipses to arbitrary curve segments using trigonometric splines. by Robert F. Kauffmann 40 Building RIAs on J2EE Foundations Joe uses ColdFusion 8 to design and build an AdobeFlex RIA that enables collaborative management of a list of tasks using a rich front-end and real-time communications. by Joe Rinehart 46 Disentangling Concepts in Object-Oriented Systems A class interface can be deceptively simple, which is why Stephen finds useful this object-oriented technique for “unpacking” the underlying concepts present in a given class. by Stephen Gross DE PARTM E NTS COLUMNS 6 Friday Night Fish Fry Ruby just isn’t for Tuesday anymore. It’s a 24/7 programming tool that’s finding it’s way into large organizations. by Jonathan Erickson 14 56 Developer’s Notebook New development products. compiled by the DDJ Staff 50 The Agile Edge One of the riskiest decisions you can make in software development is to require a “precise” cost and schedule estimate at the beginning of the project. by Scott W. Ambler Swaine’s Flames Four topics brought a smile to Michael’s face this month. by Michael Swaine 10 12 Alia Vox Can Microsoft’s Silverlight find a home in the financial industry? by Matt Davey 53 Effective Concurrency Deadlock can happen whenever there is a blocking (or waiting) cycle among concurrent tasks. by Herb Sutter Developer Diaries Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers. edited by Michael Swaine 4 Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l August 2008 Page 36 http://www.ddj.com

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Dr. Dobb's Journal - August 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer’s Notebook A Conversation with Christos Papadimitriou OpenGL and Mobile Devices: Round 2 Ellipse Specification Using Vectors Embed Custom GUIs in WPF Building RIAs on J2EE Foundations Disentangling Concepts in Object-Oriented Systems The Agile Edge Effective Concurrency Swaine’s Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - August 2008

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