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Dr. Dobb's Journal - December 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Conversations The Man Who Sold the Sky Performance on Rails LINQ-to-SQL and T-SQL A Remote Java RMI Registry Beyond B-Trees File Descriptors and Multithreaded Programs Effective Concurrency The Agile Edge Swaine's Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - December 2008

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