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A First Taste of Design by Contract: By Jim McKim, Richard Mitchell; Jan 25, 2002; In this sample chapter from Design by Contract, by Example, authors Jim McKim and Richard Mitchell provide a quick introduction to design by contract.

A Glitch in Time Saves Nine: By Jeff Papows; May 6, 2010; Whether you're a car manufacturer or a state tax agency, software glitches can have extensive — and expensive — repercussions. In this article, Jeff Papows, President and CEO of WebLayers, explains that proper IT governance can prevent many of these problems.

A Go Primer: By David Chisnall; May 31, 2012; This chapter contains an overview of Go syntax, including declaring variables and functions, looping, creating enumerations, declaring structures, defining methods, implementing interfaces, and casting types.

A Goal-Problem Approach for Scoping a Software Performance Improvement Program: By Neil S. Potter, Mary E. Sakry; Aug 2, 2002; Is there inconsistency between your improvement model and your company's goals? Discover the goal-problem approach and how it can help you achieve your goals and still stay within the standard.

A Guided Tour through C#: Part I: By Klaus Michelson; May 17, 2002; This chapter presents an overview of several important C# features, to give you an introductory feel for the language.

A Half-Way Step to Apple’s Source Code: An Interview with David Chisnall: By Linda Leung, David Chisnall; Jun 5, 2009; Longtime InformIT contributor David Chisnall talks Cocoa, GNUstep, and the Étoilé project with Linda Leung.

A Handful of Tips for Swing Programs: By Jeff Friesen; Apr 13, 2001; Here's a handful of tips from Java expert Geoff Friesen that can enhance your Swing programs.

A Head Start on Domain-Driven Design Patterns: By Jimmy Nilsson; Aug 25, 2006; Do you think design patterns are academic nonsense, useless and elitist? If this is how you feel, the aim in this chapter is to show you the opposite, because nothing could be more wrong. Patterns can be very pragmatic, highly useful in day-to-day work, and extremely interesting to all (or at least most) developers.

A Holistic View of Six Sigma: By Roger W. Hoerl, Ron D. Snee; Dec 3, 2004; This chapter has provided a general overview of Six Sigma—the key elements of the initiative and the key concepts, methods, and tools—and the tremendous opportunities for using Six Sigma to improve processes, functions, and organizations beyond the factory floor.

A Human Being Is Not Equivalent to a Tool: Working with the Dynamic Systems Development Method: By Arie van Bennekum; Mar 22, 2002; Working with the DSDM philosophy means adopting an attitude of collaboration, cooperation and commitment from everyone involved. This includes end-users, management and technology professionals. The benefits go beyond a good piece of software.

A Java Card Primer: Part 1—Introduction to the Java Card Environment: By Mauro Marinilli; Jan 25, 2002; This first of two articles on Java Card by Mauro Marinilli offers important details of the Java Card platform.

A Java Card Primer: Part 2—A Java Card Example: By Mauro Marinilli; Jan 25, 2002; In this second article of Mauro Marinilli's primer on Java Card, you learn more about the platform by the use of a concrete example.

A JNLP Tutorial: Part 1—An Introduction to JNLP: By Mauro Marinilli; Jan 25, 2002; Want to use JNLP directly in your applications? This first of two articles on the subject covers the essentials of the powerful Java Network Launching Protocol.

A JNLP Tutorial: Part 2—An Example: By Mauro Marinilli; Jan 25, 2002; What are the pros and cons of JNLP? This second article on the subject by Mauro Marinilli gives you important insights into this powerful protocol.

A Light Introduction to ARM Assembly: By David Chisnall; Mar 20, 2012; David Chisnall looks at why most modern mobile and embedded platforms use ARM chips and gives a gentle introduction to ARM assembly.

A Look at Apple's Core Animation: By Marcus Zarra; Feb 1, 2008; Marcus Zarra walks you through some of the basics of Core Animation and how they can be applied to a normal Cocoa application.

A Magic Spell: Using auto and decltype in C++11 to Declare Objects Without Spelling Out Their Types: By Danny Kalev; Mar 15, 2012; C++11 weaves its magic to help you eliminate keystrokes and simplify your code, safely transferring some of your workload to the compiler. With two new C++11 features, you can omit the type of an object from its declaration, and the compiler ingeniously deduces the missing type by examining the initializer used in the declaration. Danny Kalev reveals the secret behind the curtain.

A New Harvest of Python IDEs: By Boudewijn Rempt; Nov 27, 2000; Use this pragmatic guide to pick the Python IDE that's right for you. The author compares and contrasts the most important features, and illustrates each IDE with screenshots to help his descriptions.

A New Open Resource Management Architecture in the Sun HPC ClusterTools Environment: By Sun Microsystems; Feb 21, 2003; This article presents a new architecture for the integration of the Sun HPC ClusterTools parallel computing environment with distributed resource management systems such as the Sun Grid Engine system.

A Picture Can Save a Thousand Words: UML Class Diagrams and Java: By Stephen R. Palmer; Aug 30, 2002; Need an introduction to UML class diagrams from a Java programmer’s perspective? Starting from Java source code, Stephen Palmer shows how the industry-standard modeling language can be used to graphically describe an object-oriented system.