DDJ, July 2006
Java
FEATURES
Living with Compliance
Michael Swaine
Ensuring that you're building the system you thought you were building amounts to "proving that you did what you said you'd do." Who'd have thought that this would prove to be one of the thorniest problems in software development?
Optimized Java
Matt Love
Virtual machine features in Java 6 can provide performance improvements—if you can avoid the pitfalls.
Radios, Cell Phones, & Java
Tea Vui Huang
Among other tricks, Java's Advanced Multimedia API lets you turn a mobile device (such as your cell phone) into an AM/FM radio.
Assurance & Agile Processes
Cliff Berg & Scott W. Ambler
Assurance that systems will perform as you expect does not conflict with agility—it merely challenges it.
Threading & .NET
Michael Taylor
Even with recent advances in .NET, multithreading issues can be a struggle for developers.
Supporting Custom C++ Types
Stephen Hutton
Traits are a powerful technique that lets you create arbitrary user-defined types, among other things.
COLUMNS
The New C++
Pete Becker
Pete discusses the addition of almost all of TR1 to the new C++ Standard.
Nisley's Notebook
Ed Nisley
Triple-boot systems and memory-stick errors are the least of Ed's problems.
The Agile Edge
Scott Ambler
When you want to launch an agile project, where do you start?
DEPARTMENTS
Hmmmm
Jonathan Erickson
Summer is supposed to be a time for poison ivy and mosquito bites&mdsash;not school.
Alia Vox
Tim O'Reilly
When it comes to Web 2.0, Tim wonders if we're stuck on a name or hooked on value?
Developer Diaries
Michael Swaine
From startups to SlickEdit, we're on the road this month.
New & Noteworthy
Rick Wayne
The latest news and developments to take note of.
Developer's Notebook
DDJ Staff
New development products and new releases of existing ones.
Hard Copy
Greg Wilson
Designing systems and designing games are the focus of this month's books.
Swaine's Flames
Michael Swaine
The sharing of delusional ideas by two people who are closely associated. And no cousin Corbett?