DDJ, September 2007
Requirements and Compliance


FEATURES

Return of the Desktop
Michael Swaine
Is the rediscovery of the desktop just the latest swing of some tech-trend pendulum, or is there something more going on here?

Separating Duties to Meet IT Compliance
Tracy Ragan
If your organization is facing strict audit compliance but struggles with distributed platforms, take a look at how the big boys do it.

SCRUM Meets CMMi
Pablo Santos
Codice Software tackles Agile methodologies (SCRUM) and process improvement (CMMi) at the same time.

Widgets & Rich Internet Applications
Dana Moore and Ray Budd
Desktop widgets are lightweight client apps used with RIA to take optimum advantage of what the client and server have to offer.

Service-Component Architectures
Arunava Chatterjee
Service-Component Architectures (SCA) provide a programming model for implementing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).

Debugging with NTSD and Application Verifier
Patrick Garvan
Did you know that Windows ships with built-in debugging tools--the Microsoft NT Symbolic Debugger and the Application Verifier?

Multithreaded Asynchronous I/O & I/O Completion Ports
Tom R. Dial
I/O completion ports provide an elegant solution to the problem of writing scalable server applications that use multithreading and asynchronous I/O.


COLUMNS

Effective Concurrency
Herb Sutter
How many cores (or hardware threads) can your code harness to get its answers faster?

The Agile Edge
Scott W. Ambler
Scott examines strategies for dealing with constraints that business stakeholders may put on software development teams.


DEPARTMENTS

Hmmmm
Jonathan Erickson
Multicore or manycore -- it's all the same to me!

Alia Vox
Joe Marasco
Organizations are recognizing the link between requirements quality and the success of software development initiatives.

Developer Diaries
edited by Michael Swaine
Petaflops and threads are in this month's spotlight.

Developer's Notebook
compiled by the DDJ Staff
New development products and new releases of existing ones.

Conversations
Deirdre Blake
Karl Wiegers answers the question: "So what are requirements?"

Swaine's Flames
Michael Swaine
Michael takes a practical look at the theory of a "hair of the bit that bit you."