Avalon, Redux Martin gives an update on Software Factories, looks at the Microsoft Avalon Community Technology Preview, and examines the third-party implementation of Avalon, Xamlon Pro 1.0. Mon, 13 Dec 2004
Software Factories Software Factories offer a way to gain economy of scope when developing software product lines. Microsoft is previewing one component needed for Software Factories—an object model design tool for developing and applying Domain-Specific Languages. Mon, 15 Nov 2004
Ch, Redux Martin looks at key features of the Ch C99 interpreter, library and shell. Mon, 18 Oct 2004
Virtual PC, Linux, and a Few Bugs Martin deals with testing on more Linux distributions and Windows versions than he has computers, and tracks down a couple of annoying bugs. Mon, 27 Sep 2004
REALbasic Martin examines REALbasic for Windows 5.5.3, gets his feet wet in the Linux pond, and takes a quick look at Komodo 3.0. Mon, 9 Aug 2004
The Web, with Inheritance Martin examines some of the improvements in ASP.NET 2.0, and takes a brief look at M7 NitroX. Mon, 19 Jul 2004
The Mighty Amazon Martin explores the Amazon Web Services SDK, and takes a quick look at two tool updates: Visual SlickEdit 9 and InstallShield X. Mon, 21 Jun 2004
Self, Slate, and Prothon Two new programming languages, Slate and Prothon, have a common ancestor in Self. Mon, 31 May 2004
Indigo Indigo is…web services on steroids? Mon, 12 Apr 2004
Intentional Programming Martin explores links between Intentional Programming and Concept Programming. Mon, 8 Mar 2004
Yada, Yada, Yada Microsoft has introduced Yet Another Database API for Whidbey and Longhorn. In fact, there's more than one of them in the offing. Mon, 9 Feb 2004
Longhorn and Whidbey, Part 1: Avalon Martin dives into the Microsoft OS codenamed Longhorn, the Longhorn SDK, and the upcoming Visual Studio release, codenamed Whidbey. Mon, 12 Jan 2004
What Zope Did Wrong (and How It's Being Fixed) Dr. Dobb's talks with Lennart Regebro about the many things that
Zope 2 did right and did wrong. Lennart has also been one of the driving
forces behind Five, the integration of Zope 3 technologies into Zope 2.
Ubuntu and the Software Around It Dr. Dobb's interviews Ubuntu's Gerry Carr about the Linux-based Ubuntu
operating sytem and the application lifecycle tools -- such as the
recently released Launchpad -- that surround it.
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.