WebBrain and TheBrain help visualize associations -- but do they solve the real challenges, wonders Jon; and Byte Newsgroup readers respond. Jon also considers digital cameras.
Documents, Databases, And XML
Jon Udell
Can XML help document objects be put into databases? Threads contributors offer their thoughts on this and on PostgreSQL.
QNX, Linux, And Windows
Jon Udell
One recent discussion in Byte's Newsgroups is about QNX, the real-time Unix-like operating system recently made available free for non-commercial use. How do people feel about QNX vs. Linux, or Microsoft OSes? Read and find out.
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.
