Editorial
[author : Tim Kientzle] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
Harvard's Conference on the Internet and Society
[author : Eugene Eric Kim]
Will the Internet really change the way we live, work, learn, govern, and communicate? Eugene reports on a Harvard University symposium that looked for the answer to this and other questions.
Analyzing Web Traffic with Perl
[author : Frederic Bien, Michel Delory, and Richard McGillis]
Our authors present SurfReport, a program that takes the nearly unreadable format of your web-site log entries, and converts them to a meaningful report of who has been accessing your site.
Access Counters for Web Pages
[author : Andrew Davison]
Andrew presents two approaches to creating access counters-one that's based on server-side includes, and another that utilizes the CGI protocol.
Automating Tech Support
[author : Mary Kroening]
WebLS is a logic-based system that's designed to "automatically" answer commonly asked technical-support questions via the Web.
Networking with Java
[author : Anil Hemrajani]
Java's java.net package provides the tools you need for developing client and server applications for the Internet. Anil examines this class and shows how you can make the most of it.
ActiveX Documents and the World Wide Web
[author : Vinod Anantharaman]
Microsoft's ActiveX Documents are designed to make it possible for heterogeneous documents to integrate seamlessly with a wide variety of container applications, including multivendor Web browsers.
Your Own Netscape Plug-in Installer
[author : Mark Carolan]
While Mark's PlugInstall was originally designed for installing plug-ins for Netscape Navigator, it's flexible enough for general-purpose Windows 95 installation.
COLUMNS
Ramblings in Real Time
[author : Michael Abrash]
Michael always thought you had to resort to fixed-point math when attacking real-time, 3-D problems. But with its faster floating-point instructions, pipelined floating-point unit, and parallel FXCH, the Pentium has changed his way of thinking.
DTACK Revisited
[author : Hal W. Hardenbergh]
DRAM and the future of Windows NT are Hal's focus in this issue.
20/20
[author : Al Williams]
Adding Net-related functionality to your software used to mean knowing all about TCP/IP stacks, domain name services, and protocols. Tools such as Microsoft's ActiveX Internet Control Pack now do the work for you.
Software and the Law
[author : Marc E. Brown]
What really happens when software is involved in a legal dispute? Marc examines the anatomy of a software lawsuit.
The Software Engineer
[author : Allen Holub]
The next battles in the component architectures war may pit OLE against Java. Allen examines the two competing object models.