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FEATURES:
A Conversation with Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou is this year’s recipient of the Katayanagi Prize for Research Excellence. In this exclusive interview, Dr. Dobb’s and Christos discuss subjects ranging from the economics of the programming market to the “computer scientist as popular novelist.”
by Jack Woehr

OpenGL and Mobile Devices: Round 2
It’s been a couple of years since Richard wrote about the intersection of OpenGL and mobile devices. And my word—the world has changed, thanks in part to devices such as Apple’s iPhone.
by Richard S. Wright Jr.

Ellipse Specification Using Vectors
The program Robert presents here demonstrates a method for rendering ellipses that’s suited to the specific task of aligning ellipses to arbitrary curve segments using trigonometric splines.
by Robert F. Kauffmann

Embed Custom GUIs in WPF
The FlowDocument class in the Windows Presentation Framework— the graphics and user interface engine in .NET 3.0—lets you easily manipulate documents containing rich content.
by Eric Bergman-Terrell

Building RIAs on J2EE Foundations
Joe uses ColdFusion 8 to design and build an AdobeFlex RIA that enables collaborative management of a list of tasks using a rich front-end and real-time communications.
by Joe Rinehart

Disentangling Concepts in Object-Oriented Systems
A class interface can be deceptively simple, which is why Stephen finds useful this object-oriented technique for “unpacking” the underlying concepts present in a given class.
by Stephen Gross

COLUMNS:
50 The Agile Edge
One of the riskiest decisions you can make in software development is to require a “precise” cost and schedule estimate at the beginning of the project.
by Scott W. Ambler

53 Effective Concurrency
Deadlock can happen whenever there is a blocking (or waiting) cycle among concurrent tasks.
by Herb Sutter

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