Dr. Dobb's Digest, July 2009

EDITOR'S NOTE

Information Security
Jonathan Erickson


TECHNO-NEWS

Finding Java API Methods and Classes


FEATURES

How the U.S. Changed Its Security Game
Alan Paller
Agencies pool threat data and make practical fixes to common woes.

The Case for D
Andrei Alexandrescu
D could be best described as a high-level systems programming language.

Debugging MySQL Stored Procedures
Brian J. Tarbox
Being able to do low- or no-cost logging with Stored Procedures is an extremely useful technique.

Experiences with Kanban
Charles Suscheck
Somewhere between the structure afforded by Scrum and the fluidity of Extreme Programming, Kanban is a very lean Agile development technique.

Monitoring Remote Tasks in AJAX
Dino Esposito
The Progress Indicator pattern lets the JavaScript client and the server application share information.


COLUMNS

Conversations
Jonathan Erickson
Dr. Dobb's talks with security expert Gary McGraw about Twitter and other topics.

Book Review
Mike Riley
Andy Lester offers no-nonsense job search and interview advice in Land the Tech Job You Love.

Effective Concurrency
Herb Sutter
Herb explains the power of "In Progress."