Just because you can eliminate server-based control doesn't mean
you always should. P2P is really about maximum choice.
Component Software: The Next Generation
Jon Udell
Microsoft's .NET takes language agnosticism to the next level.
How Do Peers Connect?
Jon Udell
The newsgroup mulls over whether TCP or UDP connection-splicing could assure bi-directional communication between any two peers, even when both are firewalled.
From The Mailbag: Thread Readers Write
Jon Udell
In their e-mail to Jon, readers of this column point him to a variety of interesting software projects.
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.
