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FEATURES:
16 Smart Compilers—But Smart Enough?
Compilers are smart, but are they smart enough in the emerging world of multicore processors?
by Michael Swaine

22 Grid-Enabling Resource-Intensive Applications
Our authors take an application designed to run on a single PC and distribute its processing over a network grid.
by Timothy Hoehn and Bob Zeidman

30 Distributed Computing: Windows and Linux
Mohamed and Klaus describe a distributed system in which a single Windows machine controls a Linux cluster.
by Mohamed Abo El-Fotouh and Klaus Diepold

36 Adobe AIR: Desktop/Web Convergence
Adobe AIR is designed to enable the development of desktop applications using web technologies.
by Oliver Goldman

42 Transparency on Demand
Richard presents a technique for loading JavaScript libraries transparently at the point of need.
by Richard Vaughan

51 Reusable Associations
Our authors take the Model-Driven Development (MDD) concept of reusable associations and implement them for C++, C#, and Java.
by Martin Soukup and Jiri Soukup

COLUMNS:
57 Effective Concurrency
Critical sections are our One True Tool for guaranteeing mutual exclusion on shared variables.
by Herb Sutter

60 The Agile Edge
Many traditionalists will claim that Agile projects are difficult to govern, but Scott says nothing could be further from the truth.
by Scott W. Ambler

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