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

d09TOFC_p3ds 7/17/08 8:16 AM Page 4 The World of Software Development September 2008 Contents F EAT U R E S 16 20 Application Lifecycle Management Meets Model-Driven Development The combination of ALM and MDD gives you the connected workflow you need to handle the development of even the most complex applications and systems. by John Carrillo and Scott McKorkle 26 Building a Robust Development Environment Stephen presents strategies for source-code managment, build automation, and human factors—including tips on how to handle significant project change, regardless of platform. by Stephen Rylander A Conversation With Erik Demaine Erik Demaine is this year’s recipient of the Katyanagi Emerging Leadership Prize. Erik’s research interests range from algorithms and data structures for improving web searches, to the computational difficulty of playing games. by Jack Woehr 32 Real Users Really Matter 37 Here’s an elegant wildcard string-matching algorithm that you’ll find efficient and useful. by Kirk J. Krauss 40 Android is an open-source mobile phone stack developed by Google for the Open Handset Alliance. by Tom Thompson Matching Wildcards: The Android Mobile An Algorithm Phone Platform Page 16 To deal with the complexity of web applications, there has to be a link between development and operations. by Hon Wong 48 Managing Application Thread Use Multicore processors are increasingly replacing single-core processors, and developers are being confronted with new challenges when using them. by Levent Akyil 54 Signalling Integer Overflows in Java Our authors present COJAC, a freely available tool that instruments any existing Java bytecode for overflow detection. by Frederic Bapst and François Kilchoer 59 .NET Development & the IBM WebSphere Portal Server Shelly presents techniques and examines tools for developing .NET applications for IBM’s WebSphere Portal Server. by Shelly Saunders DE PARTM E NTS COLUMNS 6 Friday Night Fish Fry Software engineers have always been willing and able to step up and help out when needed by Jonathan Erickson 12 Developer Diaries Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers. edited by Michael Swaine 65 The Agile Edge Much of what occurs during Iteration –1 involves the preproject aspects of portfolio management. by Scott W. Ambler 10 14 72 Developer’s Notebook New development products. compiled by the DDJ Staff Alia Vox Coverity CTO Ben Chelf wonders, how can we maintain our balance while walking the tightrope of software development? by Ben Chelf Swaine’s Flames You’d expect a column called “Swaine’s Flames” to be edgy and unbalanced, like a Lewis Black rant. Will this month tip the scales toward unbalancedness? by Michael Swaine 68 Effective Concurrency Writing lock-free code can confound anyone—even expert programmers, as Herb shows this month. by Herb Sutter 4 Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l September 2008 Page 48 http://www.ddj.com

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Dr. Dobb's Journal - September 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer’s Notebook A Conversation With Erik Demaine Application Lifecycle Management Meets Model-Driven Development Building a Robust Development Environment Real Users Really Matter Matching Wildcards: An Algorithm The Android Mobile Phone Platform Managing Application Thread Use Signalling Integer Overflows in Java .NET Development & the IBM WebSphere Portal Server The Agile Edge Effective Concurrency Swaine’s Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - September 2008

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