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BYTE.com > Features > 2003 Combining easy access with human-readable data formats and open integration standards, Web services create an obvious attraction for thrill-seeking and malicious hackers alike. The relative inexperience of developers creating XML-based Web services may also lead to accidental "attacks" that cost time and money regardless of the developers' good intentions. Mon, 15 Dec 2003 Patenting Your Software: A Patent Attorney's Warning Thomas Jackson identifies common pitfalls in the patent application process, and evaluates the do-it-yourself guides available for inventors. Mon, 8 Dec 2003 Building Sentient Machines It's surprising how little code is required to outline the basic features of an intelligent, self-aware computer. Mon, 1 Dec 2003 Open Source Software: What, How and Why? If you're thinking about getting involved with an open source project, asking the right questions is the first step to getting the correct answers. Mon, 24 Nov 2003 Is It Time for Perl Certification? Tim Maher calls for the Perl community to adopt a serious certification program, both to help individual Perl programmers make it through the hiring process, and to increase Perl's standing in the corporate IT market. Mon, 17 Nov 2003 PhotoPlus Expo 2003 Tired of computer shows nobody comes to, Ernest heads to New York City to have some fun looking through his lens at new digital cameras and printers. Mon, 17 Nov 2003 Anonymizing Your Web Server Script kiddies can leverage canned, newly-discovered exploits to do more damage faster by targeting hosts with recognizable signatures. A self-identifying system invites trouble. Mon, 10 Nov 2003 IBM Community Tools: Instant Messaging on Steroids The IBM Community Tools are intended to explore new ways that large companies communicate and interact. Mon, 20 Oct 2003 C# Features Useful for Testing Writing tests in C# is similar in most respects to writing tests in Java. However, a few additional features were quite helpful: a preprocessor, enums, and decimal data. Mon, 13 Oct 2003 Fighting Viruses with MailScanner MailScanner is an open source tool to help systems administrators deal with viruses and spam. Mon, 6 Oct 2003 TechXNY/PC Expo 2003 The PC Expo show in New York City was slow this year, but Daniel still found lots of stuff worth seeing. Mon, 22 Sep 2003 Memories and Cookies The optimism and untethered ambition of the dot-com boom may have vanished from the face of the Internet, but it lingers on in cookie files. Mon, 15 Sep 2003 Cleaning the Spam Cesspool Can Bayesian anti-spam techniques rescue e-mail users from the sewage of unwanted messages? Mon, 15 Sep 2003 Return of the Lone Game Developer Thanks to two recent trends in game development, single developers and small teams once again have the chance to create high-quality games on par with the best of the commercial world. Mon, 8 Sep 2003 BS7799: Up to Standard The UK's BS7799 guidelines can help a company create and maintain effective security policies. Mon, 8 Sep 2003 How to Write a Chess-Playing Program, Part 2 In the second part of this two-part series, Ihor shows how to build a chess-playing program, step by step. Mon, 1 Sep 2003 Python 2.3 Python 2.3, released at the end of July, offers a broad range of improvements to the popular high-level programming language. Jeremy, Cameron, and Alex dig into the details. Mon, 1 Sep 2003 Beyond Google: The Next Generation of Search It is estimated that by 2005 the volume of digital data will double every three months, and search engines will at best only reach 50 percent of the total available web pages. How will existing search engines evolve to cope with this explosion of information? Or will some upstart with a new vision topple the reigning kings of search? Mon, 25 Aug 2003 How to Write a Chess-Playing Program, Part 1 The first part of this two-part series provides some background in game theory and uncovers some of the most popular search algorithms. Mon, 25 Aug 2003 The Tortoise and the Hare Tuomo Kortesmaa explains how a 566 MHz Celeron can outrace a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4. Mon, 28 Jul 2003 Elegance in Computer Programming There are always many ways to structure and code a program that will achieve the goals set for it. Some ways are brutal and some elegant. What constitutes beauty in a computer program? Mon, 21 Jul 2003 Code Quality in Open Source Software: Inspecting Apache Code inspections conducted by Reasoning indicate that open source software and commercially developed projects show similar defect rates when the software is young, but that over time, open source code grows more robust. Mon, 14 Jul 2003 CeBIT America 2003, Part 2 In Part 2 of the CeBIT America 2003 show report, Ernest and Alex review some nifty gadgets and tackle the big industry questions. Mon, 14 Jul 2003 CeBIT America 2003, Part 1 In Part 1 of the CeBIT America show report, Ernest and Alex review new laptops and PDA technology from the likes of Sony and Handspring. Mon, 7 Jul 2003 Human-Targeted Denial of Service In the past, denial of service attacks have frequently been employed by hackers to plague network services with spurious requests, while semantic attacks have been used to dupe unsuspecting Internet users into various get-rich-quick scams. A new possible class of attack would aim at services rendered by humans. Mon, 30 Jun 2003 Apache Axis and the Next Generation of Web Services XML interchange via asynchronous, reliable messaging is the next wave of Web services interaction. The Apache Axis project provides a way to transport XML using reliable messaging within and across the extended enterprise, while preserving the interoperability of SOAP over HTTP across the public Internet. Mon, 23 Jun 2003 SCO Owns Your Computer This article is freely available to all readers. It is now three months since SCO filed a lawsuit against IBM, and a month since SCO declared "Linux is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX," yet we still don't fully understand SCO's claims. BYTE.com contributing editor Trevor Marshall recently sat down with SCO Senior Vice President Chris Sontag, and was told that SCO not only "owns" AIX, IRIX and Linux, but it also has its eyes on BSD. |
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