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VIEWPOINTSmore EDITOR'S EYE by Jon Erickson Dr. Dobb's 2009 Hall of Fame Calendar Just to prove that I'm not behind the 8 ball on everything, I'm posting the Dr. Dobb's 2009 Hall of Fame Calendar -- a downloadable PDF document with monthly photos of recipients of the annual Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award. I was late this year, if you recall, posting the 2008 calendar when the year was almost half over. That's because I was totally behind the 8 ball. Luckily, in working through a stack of stuff here, and a stack of stuff [...] Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:00:00 +0100		EVENTS October 27-30, 2008 Boston, MA Join us for Software Development Best Practices 2008, Dr. Dobb's premier east coast event, featuring world-class training on the entire software development lifecycle. Register by Sept 19^th to save up to $400! MICROSITES FEATURED TOPIC ADDITIONAL TOPICS

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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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Dr. Dobb's 2009 Hall of Fame Calendar