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Fresh Faces
Young upstarts challenge the industry's leading products, books and websites. By Rosalyn Lum - Jolt Awards
AI Expert Newsletter - May 2005
We've devoted this month's issue to spreadsheets and AI, including my Model Master, a program which uses Prolog to reduce spreadsheet errors; neural nets and cellular automata in Excel; notes on Mike Kassof about his work on logical spreadsheets; and Amzi!'s ARulesXL, which by embedding logical rules in Excel, makes possible apps that are not practical using Excel on its own. - Parallel
Battle of the Code Generators 
Code generation involves generating source code in some target programming language from some simpler input. - Design
Cyber Hyper Detective
Cloak. Decoy. Spoof. Snare. Are these the words of an interstellar Star Trek spy? Not this time. Instead, they're the keys to keeping your enterprise safe and secure.
Wiping Out Sensitive Data
Deleting files doesn't mean they're erased. Here's a .NET class that wipes a file by writing zeros in place of each byte of allocated space prior to calling the regular file-deletion API.
Flexible C++ #11: Imperfect enums, part 1: Declarations, Definitions, and Namespace Leakage
Welcome to a series on enumerations in C and C++, in which I cover their uses, good practices for managing them, and two imperfections in the way the language handles them. In this first installment, I cover the overview of enumerations, and examine the first imperfection: the leakage of enumeration symbol names into the surrounding namespace.
Server-Side Persistence & Embedded Database Engines
Chris shares the lessons he learned when building the Steam software delivery and content management system that's built on top of the Berkeley DB database engine.
A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
The face of hardware is changing, impacting the way you'll be writing software in the future. - Web Development
Implicit Virtual
When it comes to implicit virtual, one man's "bug" is another's "feature."
OSGi: Out of the Gates
A well-designed Java plug-in architecture gives Eclipse 3.0 much of its functionality. If your client-side software uses discrete modules, this technology could be right for you, too. Here's how it works. - Open Source