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Cover Contents Hmmmm Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer’s Notebook AI: It’s OK Again! Conversations Visual Cryptography and Bit-Plane Complexity Segmentation Inside the Windows Vista Disk Encryption Algorithm Memory-Aware Components Software and the Core Description Process Logging In C++ Effective Concurrency The Agile Edge Swaine’s Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - October 2007

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