In This November Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

COVER STORY

• HTML5 — The Hype and the Reality Behind It
  By Dino Esposito
HTML5 is a hot topic and is being pushed hard as the next big thing for whatever kind of software applications you're involved with. This article provides an overview of HTML5 and focuses on dispelling the hype that surrounds it.


• Language of the Month: Opa
  By Adam Koprowski
Developers seem to accept the need to use a multitude of technologies as inherent to Web programming. But it doesn't have to be. What if you could create all the components of your application with one coherent package? That's what Opa is all about.


• Extend MVC Apps Easily Using NuGet Packages
  By Jeffrey Palermo, Jimmy Bogard, Eric Hexter, Matthew Hinze, and Jeremy Skinner
NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to pull libraries, components, and, most importantly, their configuration into your Visual Studio project.


• EDITORIAL
  By Andrew Binstock


• From the Vault: m1 — A Mini Macro Processor
  By Jon Bentley
This simple, Awk-based macro processor is a surprisingly useful tool for manipulating text files.


• Letters
  By you
Readers weigh in on all manner of matters.


• Links
  
Snapshots of the most interesting articles on drdobbs.com including an interview with Herb Sutter and a JavaOne overview.

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