Editorial
[author : Jonathan Erickson] #Edito
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
Mission-Critical Development with XP & Agile Processes
[author : Julius Gawlas]
Getting a mission-critical application up and running in a matter of months is easier said than done—and sometimes it requires extreme (programming) measures.
Radical Refactoring
[author : Eugene Belyaev, Maxim Shafirov, and Ann Oreshnikova]
Whether you're aware of it or not, refactoring is a fundamental part of the software development process. In fact, it is as crucial to projects as the initial coding itself.
iSCSI Target Emulation
[author : Patrick L. Garvan, Shawn McFarland, Manoj Mehta, Mike Ramsay, & Chris Robinson]
iSCSI is a networking standard for sending SCSI commands over IP networks. Our authors present an iSCSI emulator and show how it can be used to test iSCSI systems.
VoiceXML & Instant Messaging
[author : Moshe Yudkowsky]
Moshe uses Jabber, VoiceXML, Python, and a bunch of other tools to build a prototype system that enables speech technologies—speech recognition, text-to-speech, and speech biometrics—to interact with instant messaging.
Double Dispatch Revisited
[author : Nat Goodspeed]
Nat takes a second look at the Double Dispatch pattern in C++, then implements a Java version of it.
Preventing Buffer overruns in C++
[author : Richard Grimes]
Buffer overrun vulnerability can lead to security breaches. Richard shows how to use the Visual C++ .NET compiler and libraries to rid your code of buffer overruns.
Porting Lucene to .NET Using Visual J#
[author : Larry Reeve]
Larry uses Microsoft's Visual J# .NET to port the open-source Lucene search engine to .NET. Lucene is a text search engine written entirely in Java.
EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Programmable Systems-On-Chips
[author : Al Williams]
Programmable systems-on-chips are similar to ordinary microcontrollers, but designed so that you configure components into different I/O devices.
COLUMNS
Programming Paradigms
[author : Michael Swaine]
Michael's meanderings take him from paregmenons to paradigms, as he examines e-voting, Eric Raymond, and a bunch of other stuff.
Embedded Space
[author : Ed Nisley]
Ed reports on what went on at this fall's Embedded Systems and Software Development conferences.
Chaos Manor
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Video boards are wonderful contraptions—when they work. And when they don't work, tracking down why and why not is a job in itself.
Programmer's Bookshelf
[author : Dan Wohlbruck]
Ben Shneiderman's Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies and B.J. Fogg's Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do are the books Dan reviews this month.
FORUM
Letters
[author : you]
The New Adventures of Verity Stob
[author : Verity Stob]
News & Views
[author : Shannon Cochran]
Of Interest
[author : Shannon Cochran]
Swaine's Flames
[author : Michael Swaine]