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• A Base Class for Intrusively Reference-Counted Objects in C++
  By Peter Weinert
  Smart pointers encapsulate pointers to dynamically allocated resources such as heap memory or handles. They relieve you of explicit resource deallocation, therefore simplifying resource management, exception-safe programming, and the "Resource Acquisition Is Initialization" (RAII) idiom. Your tool box provides different smart pointer templates: auto_ptr, unique_ptr, shared_ptr, weak_ptr, or intrusive_ptr. This section sketches these template classes.
• WebMatrix
  by Andrew Binstock
  Microsoft promotes WebMatrix as a single download that provides most everything an SMB would need to build a small web site — but does it deliver?
• Programming Python, 4th Edition Review
  by Mike Riley
  Python has grown from a Perl alternative to a language capable of running some of the most sophisticated and flexible applications for global companies like Google. How does this 4th release of Mark Lutz's Programming Python hold up to the previous books it was built upon?
• Improving OLTP Database Throughput via Batching
  by John Lane
  Parallel threads and JDBC connection pools can be useful, but should not be used blindly. When handling numerous transactions with small overhead on heavily contended systems, batch processing often provides a better solution.

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