Dr. Dobb's Digest, September 2009

EDITOR'S NOTE

Mobile Devices: Where Do You Start?
Jonathan Erickson


TECHNO-NEWS

OpenAjax Alliance Moves Towards More Secure Mashups


FEATURES

HTML 5 Starts Looking Real
Rob Cherny
The World Wide Web Consortium's statement that it was opting for HTML 5 over XHTML 2 as the "official" Web markup language sent ripples across web development waters.

The IIS7 Integrated Pipeline
Dino Esposito
In an integrated pipeline, an ASP.NET request is like any other request.

Coding in the Cloud
Lori MacVittie
There are three "gotchas" associated with deploying applications into a load-balanced environment.

G1: Java's 'Garbage First' Garbage Collector
Eric J. Bruno
A garbage collector works to reclaim areas of memory within an application that will never be accessed again.

Void Safety: Putting an End to the Plague of Null Dereferencing
Bertrand Meyer, Alexander Kogtenkov, and Emmanuel Stapf
Almost every program runs the risk of hitting a void call in some execution.

A Build System for Complex Projects: Part 2
Gigi Sayfan
Ibs is an invisible build system that doesn't require any build files.


COLUMNS

Conversations
Jonathan Erickson
Philippe Le Hegaret leads the W3C Interaction Domain, which develops technologies in areas such as HTML and CSS.

Book Review
Mike Riley
Venkat Subramaniam's Programming Scala doesn't waste time getting to the heart of the language.

Swaine's Flames
Michael Swaine
Don Ameche and the Human Torch.