The Art of Programming Martin reviews Don Knuth's four new "fascicles" from The Art of Computer Programming, discusses test-first programming, and talks about a Buffalo NAS device. Mon, 29 May 2006
Alarums and Excursions Martin builds a data access layer with SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, parses a Word document, puts his world in his briefcase, and surveys his wireless neighborhood. Mon, 1 May 2006
UMPCs and the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Martin gets excited by the Microsoft UMPC announcement, but winds up trying out a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Mon, 27 Mar 2006
StarLogo TNG Martin examines the preview edition StarLogo TNG, a 3D version of StarLogo that uses a graphical programming language, and looks at the progress of F#. Mon, 6 Mar 2006
More AJAX Martin looks at AJAX in Ruby on Rails and Microsoft Atlas. Mon, 6 Feb 2006
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LINQ Martin touches on the Visual Studio 2005 launch, talks about Infragistics NetAdvantage 2005, and examines the Microsoft Language Integrated Query (LINQ) project. Mon, 14 Nov 2005
Smalltalk Meets .NET S# isn't the only Smalltalk implementation targeting the .NET Framework. #Smalltalk isn't quite as ambitious as S#, but it's still pretty interesting. Mon, 12 May 2003
Refactoring Martin delves into the practice of refactoring code, begins to examine tools for refactoring various programming languages automatically, and reports on the new HP Compaq TC4200 Tablet PC. Mon, 20 Jun 2005
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
Indigo Indigo is…web services on steroids? Mon, 12 Apr 2004
The Water Language Martin investigates yet another XML-based language. Mon, 6 Jan 2003
Tools, Tools, Tools Martin examines programming tools from InstallShield, Compuware, and ClearNova. Mon, 9 Jan 2006
More AJAX Martin looks at AJAX in Ruby on Rails and Microsoft Atlas. Mon, 6 Feb 2006
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
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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