In This December Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

COVER STORY

• Testing Linux Code
  By Gil Zilberfeld and Avi Hein
Just as there are a variety of Linux distributions, there is also an abundance of development tools. While the amount of customization and flexibility is one of Linux's core strengths, it also imposes almost infinite permutations to test.


• What's New in Visual Studio 2011
  By Joydip Kanjilal
Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 is the next major upgrade to the Visual Studio IDE. It simpler, easy to use, and sports enhanced IDE features, performance improvements, and lots of new features in the editor.


• From the Vault: A Finite State Machine Framework
  By P. Dale Mason
The state transition diagram, better known as a finite state machine, is one of the most popular methods for invoking control-oriented systems. This article presents a portable approach for implementing finite state machines in C++



GUEST EDITORIAL

• HTML5 — Where Are All the Apps?
  By Geoff Perlman
The founder of RealSoftware predicts that as long a Web apps are stitched together from low-level, hand-coded pieces, no technology, not even HTML5, will launch the wave of new applications


• Letters
  By you
Readers discuss recent posts on drdobbs.com.


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