Dr. Dobb's Journal - December 2008 - (Page 4) D12TOFC_p3ds 10/13/08 12:25 PM Page 4 The World of Software Development December 2008 Contents F EAT U R E S 16 The Man Who Sold the Sky Greg Wyler’s mission is to make the Internet accessible and affordable to the “other three billion” people in the developing world, enriching lives and ensuring fair and equal access to information throughout. by Michael Swaine 20 Performance on Rails Jeremy presents strategies for identifying common performance problems in Ruby on Rails applications—and shares ways to fix them. by Jeremy Weiskotten 29 LINQ-to-SQL and T-SQL LINQ-to-SQL, an API for working with data in a SQL Server database, fully supports the LINQ syntax for running queries. by Dino Esposito 35 A Remote Java RMI Registry Our authors present a custom registry that objects can register with remotely. by Oliver Haase, Jürgen Wäsch, and Bo Zhao Page 29 40 Beyond B-Trees Of all the indexes that can order records in database-management systems, only B-Trees indexes are offered universally. by Konstantin Knizhnik 42 File Descriptors and Multithreaded Programs Sergey applies design patterns to parallel programming. by Sergey Babkin DE PARTM E NTS COLUMNS 6 Friday Night Fish Fry We hear a lot about Java and C++, but that doesn’t mean they’re the only languages developers are using. by Jonathan Erickson 14 Conversations Paul Grabscheid has thoughts on the direction that databases are going. by Jonathan Erickson 46 Effective Concurrency Understanding parallel performance. How do you know when good is good enough? by Herb Sutter 10 Alia Vox Making a case for a concurrency platform. by Charles E. Leiserson 52 Swaine’s Flames Michael looks at tech strategies for hard times. (Panhandling programmers? Riding the Rails?) by Michael Swaine 49 The Agile Edge There’s nothing simple about complex requirements and agile projects. Still with a discipline and a little luck… by Scott W. Ambler 12 Developer Diaries Profiles of programmers, descriptions of developers. edited by Michael Swaine 4 Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l December 2008 Page 46 http://www.ddj.com
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