p.8 EDITORIAL
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
p.21 DBMS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
[author : Ken White]
From ISAM to XML, data has proven to be the power that runs businesses. Ken examines the database landscape to see where we've been — and where we will be going.
p.30 THREADING & THE .NET FRAMEWORK
[author : Douglas Reilly]
Microsoft's .NET Framework offers a number of features, such as threading, that simplify difficult tasks.
p.40 THE STRIX OBJECT PERSISTENCE ENGINE
[author : César A. Gonzalez Perez]
Strix, a software layer that works between an application and the relational database back end, interfaces relational databases with object-oriented programming languages.
p.50 A JDBC WRAPPER — IN PYTHON!
[author : C.K. Tan]
Database access via JDBC can be less than straightforward. To simplify the process, C.K. presents a Python-based framework that wraps around JDBC.
p.56 APPFORGE: VISUAL BASIC FOR THE PALM OS
[author : Clayton E. Crooks II]
AppForge was developed as an add-in to the standard Visual Basic 6 IDE. Clayton uses it to build a database for the Palm OS.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
p.63 OBJECT-ORIENTED DEVICE NETWORKING
[author : Michael Howard]
Michael presents an object-oriented approach that is an alternative to the traditional ways of designing networked devices.
INTERNET PROGRAMMING
p.71 A TINY PERL SERVER PAGES ENGINE
[author : Andy Yuen]
Perl Server Pages is a small footprint Perl-based cross-platform JSP-like facility for generating dynamic pages for both UNIX and Windows.
PROGRAMMER'S TOOLCHEST
p.87 EXAMINING THE FDF TOOLKIT
[author : Lauren Hightower]
Lauren shows how you can use Adobe's Forms Data Format (FDF) Toolkit to make PDF documents come alive.
COLUMNS
p.97 PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS
[author : Michael Swaine]
Was Bill Gates a good programmer? What does Prolog have to do with the Semantic Web? And what did Kent Beck have for lunch?
p.103 C PROGRAMMING
[author : Al Stevens]
There's nothing like a comment or two about programmer's editors to fill up the mailbag.
p.111 EMBEDDED SPACE
[author : Ed Nisley]
Every real-time project starts with a design point that determines what's to be included and — more importantly — what's to be left out of the final product.
p.115 JAVA Q&A
[author : Nadine McKenzie]
Is JavaScript an object-oriented language? Well, it does utilize prototype-based inheritance and support encapsulation.
p.118 ALGORITHM ALLEY
[author : William Stallings]
Orthogonal codes are sets of sequences extensively used in wireless communication.
p.121 DR. ECCO'S OMNIHEURIST CORNER
[author : Dennis E. Shasha]
It isn't the Star Wars project, but the Air Force still has a base to protect and Ecco and Liane are called upon to help.
p.124 PROGRAMMER'S BOOKSHELF
[author : Peter Roth]
Peter examines a pair of C++ books — C++Builder 5 Developer's Guide and C++ and Object-Oriented Numeric Computing for Scientists and Engineers.
FORUM
p.10 LETTERS
[author : you]
p.18 NEWS & VIEWS
[author : Shannon Cochran]
p.126 OF INTEREST
[author : Shannon Cochran]
and Della Song
p.128 SWAINE'S FLAMES
[author : Michael Swaine]