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by Jon Erickson

Down On the Farm with BPL

In an recent installment of Dr. Dobb's Report newsletter, I wrote a short article entitled "How You Goin' Keep 'em Down on the Farm, Once They've Used DSL." Rather than telling you what I had to say about broadband reaching out to rural America, I present it here. But what's interesting is not what I had to say, but what readers such as yourself added to it. As always, I learn more from readers than readers learn from me.

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The Man Who Sold the Sky
Greg Wyler's mission is to make the Internet accessible and affordable to the "other three billion" people in the developing world, enriching lives and ensuring fair and equal access to information throughout.
Performance on Rails
Jeremy presents strategies for identifying common performance problems in Ruby on Rails applications—and shares ways to fix them.
LINQ-to-SQL and T-SQL
LINQ-to-SQL, an API for working with data in a SQL Server database, fully supports the LINQ syntax for running queries.
A Remote Java RMI Registry
Our authors present a custom registry that objects can register with remotely.
Beyond B-Trees
Of all the indexes that can order records in database-management systems, only B-Trees indexes are offered universally.
File Descriptors and Multithreaded Programs
Sergey applies design patterns to parallel programming.
Effective Concurrency
Understanding parallel performance. How do you know when good is good enough?
The Agile Edge
There's nothing simple about complex requirements and agile projects. Still with a discipline and a little luck...

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