EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
SCRIPTING FOR PNUTS
[author : John H. McCoy]
Pnuts is a language, API, and interpreter that provides a thin procedural wrapper with an interactive interface for manipulating Java objects.
REBOL AND E-MAIL SERVICES
[author : Michael Swaine]
When rebuilding his web sites, Michael looked at a number of scripting languages — and settled on Rebol. He found it easier to use than many other scripting tools, and the kinds of tasks it makes easy are those involving Internet programming.
A DYNAMIC SELECT COMPONENT FOR JAVASCRIPT
[author : Steve Johnson]
Designing a GUI component in Javascript is different than developing a custom widget in more traditional object-oriented environments. Steve shows you how to do it.
PYTHON SERVER PAGES: PART 1
[author : Kirby W. Angell]
Python Server Pages (PSP) is a server-side scripting engine designed along the lines of Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) and Sun's Java Server Pages (JSP).
TOOLS FOR FLEXIBLE SCRIPTING
[author : Sergei Savchenko]
Building scripting languages can be a time-consuming tasks. Sergei presents a pair of tools to simplify development.
EC: A EURO CALCULATOR FOR THE PALM PLATFORM
[author : Michael Yam]
EC, the Euro calculator Michael presents here, involves a number of advanced Palm programming topics, including database and memory management, and the synchronization of data between the device and the desktop.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
ECOS: AN OPERATING SYSTEM FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
[author : Gary Thomas]
The Embedded Configurable Operating System (eCos) is a royalty-free, open-source, real-time kernel, targeted at high-performance small embedded systems. As such, eCos has been specifically designed and tuned to run on 32- and 64-bit microprocessors.
INTERNET PROGRAMMING
THE ULTIMATE HOME JUKEBOX
[author : Charlie Munro and Mark Nelson]
Our authors describe how they used MP3 to encode and store on hard disk nearly 300 audio CDs, then networked the music server to create the ultimate home jukebox.
PROGRAMMER'S TOOLCHEST
EXAMINING PERLCOM
[author : Mike McMillan]
PerlCOM, from O'Reilly & Associates, lets you use Perl in any language or application that supports Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) objects. Mike shows you how to use it to extend Visual Basic.
COLUMNS
PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
It's more than a change in the weather that has Michael scratching his head this month.
C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
Al continues his development of the graphics template library. This month, he adds an ellipse shape to the library implemented as a template class in ellipse.h.
JAVA Q&A
[author : Michael Travers]
What is interactive scripting and what does it have to do with Java? Michael answers this question, as he presents Skij, an interactive scripting language for the Java environment.
ALGORITHM ALLEY
[author : Timothy Rolfe]
Card shuffling is an example of putting a fixed number of items into completely random order. Timothy examines a couple of randomizing algorithms — one that does not generate all permutations with equal probability, and another that does.
DR. ECCO'S OMNIHEURIST CORNER
[author : Dennis E. Shasha]
Ecco and Liane do lunch and go Hollywood, as they look for ways to keep a low-budget just that.
PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Jack J. Woehr and Lou Grinzo]
Databases are the focus this month, as Jack examines the latest edition of C.J. Date's classic An Introduction to Database Systems, while Lou looks at MySQL & mSQL, by Randy Jay Yarger, George Reese, and Tim King.
FORUM
LETTERS
[author : you]
NEWS & VIEWS
[author : edited by Nicholas Baran]
OF INTEREST
[author : Nicholas Baran and Amy Lincicum]
SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]