Delivering Video Over IP Networks Delivering broadcast and multicast video, on-demand media, and personalized content with a consistently high quality of experience (QoE) is no small task. Mon, 16 Apr 2007
Designing User Interfaces for Cooperating Devices It's hard enough to design a user interface for a standalone product. But when you have two devices that must work in concert, the level of difficulty multiplies. Mon, 16 Apr 2007
Tomorrow's Software Factory--Today If you read enough technology news, you are bound to run into the software factory. But just what is a software factory? Tue, 31 Jan 2006
PhotoPlus Expo 2003 Tired of computer shows nobody comes to, Ernest heads to New York City to have some fun looking through his lens at new digital cameras and printers. Mon, 17 Nov 2003
The Web Services Threat Model Combining easy access with human-readable data formats and open integration standards, Web services create an obvious attraction for thrill-seeking and malicious hackers alike. The relative inexperience of developers creating XML-based Web services may also lead to accidental "attacks" that cost time and money regardless of the developers' good intentions. Mon, 15 Dec 2003
Beyond Google: The Next Generation of Search It is estimated that by 2005 the volume of digital data will double every three months, and search engines will at best only reach 50 percent of the total available web pages. How will existing search engines evolve to cope with this explosion of information? Or will some upstart with a new vision topple the reigning kings of search? Mon, 25 Aug 2003
The Problems of Personalization Online retailers are crowding onto the "personalization" bandwagon—with humorous and occasionally insulting results. Mon, 1 Nov 2004
Memories and Cookies The optimism and untethered ambition of the dot-com boom may have vanished from the face of the Internet, but it lingers on in cookie files. Mon, 15 Sep 2003
UDDI: Is It Still Relevant? UDDI, the "red headed stepchild" of web services standards, is regaining significance with the rise of service oriented architectures. Mon, 7 Feb 2005
CES 2004: Still Growing This year’s Consumer Electronics Show delivered home media convergence at prices we can almost afford. While industry trade shows shrink, CES keeps on growing as digital media matures for the consumer. Mon, 19 Jan 2004
Buffer, Buffer, Where is the Buffer? With so much of modern technology concerned with buffers, buffering, and the dreaded buffer overflow, Lynne asks: Can we build a better buffer? Mon, 4 Oct 2004
2008 International Mathematica Conference Dr. Dobb's interviews Wolfram Research's Theo Gray, co-founder and Director of User Interfaces, and Roger Germundsson, Director of Research and Development, about the upcoming 2008 International
Mathematica Conference.
How Do You Do Nightly Builds and Tests when there is No Overnight? Software Production in a Geographically Distributed Environment
Attend this Webcast and find out how to overcome common build-test-deploy challenges that affect all members of a distributed team, including:
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<li> Workflow challenges, like lack of documented procedures and build and test handoff problems</li>
<li> Slow build and test cycles, broken builds, and other factors that hamper distributed team productivity</li>
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Thursday, September 25, 2005 " 11am PT / 2pm ET
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In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
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