While some people may dismiss the Xbox as nothing more than a prettied-up PC, Andy looked under the hood and finds that Microsoft, the kings of code-bloat,
has stripped the PC of all of its hardware hangups to create a console that
offers more perform
Andy Experiences Windows and Office XP
Andy Patrizio
Office XP is definitely a few steps in the right direction after the
misfire of Office 2000. Here's to hoping Windows XP is equally good when it
ships. It isn't there yet.
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.