by Michael Doyle, Cheong Ang, and David Martin
At last count, there were nearly a dozen APIs vying for hearts and home pages of Web developers. Our authors propose a standard API that leverages the concept of embedded executable content for interactive application development and delivery.
by Tim Kientzle
Tim compares the error-handling strategies of a variety of popular protocols, then presents heuristics that improve the performance of Kermit's windowing strategy.
by G. Dinesh Dutt
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) makes it possible for Web servers to interact with external programs. Dinesh presents a program that reports gateway-execution errors.
by Matt Kruse
Server-side includes are commands embedded inside HTML documents that enable your page to do something different each time it is loaded. Matt describes the format of these commands and shows how to write programs that work with your Web pages.
by Greg White
Greg introduces a package of Java classes that parse the command-line parameters for HtmlXlate, an application that converts HTML to RTF. Because HtmlXlate doesn't require display graphics, Greg made it an "application" instead of an "applet."
by Jim Beveridge
The Undo/Redo mechanism Jim presents here is based on a history length limited only by available memory. Because it is implemented in Visual C++ and MFC, this mechanism can easily be added to your applications.
by Gil Gameiro
Novell's Embedded Systems Technology (NEST) lets you incorporate network protocols and client services into embedded systems. Gil uses NEST to put an intelligent coffee maker online, then controls it with a Windows-hosted menu program.
by Derek Brown and Martin Hall
Derek and Martin show how you can get maximum performance from WinSock 2.0 applications by taking advantage of two features new to the spec--event objects and overlapped I/O.
by P.W. Scherer
RogueWave's Tools.h++, a C++ library consisting of more than 100 classes, has been the cornerstone of Perry's development efforts ever since he ported over 30,000 lines of C++ code to an equivalent app that was only 6000 lines long.
by Ian E. Gorman
Ian describes how he used traditional compiler-development techniques and the MKS Lex & Yacc Toolkit to build a keyword-query compiler for a CD-ROM database.
by Michael Swaine
Before continuing his examination of little languages for the Macintosh, Michael looks at a number of books devoted to HTML coding.
by Al Stevens
Al launches "Quincy 96," a C/C++ interpreter that runs under Windows 95 and is based on GNU C and C++. Among other features, Quincy 96 manages two kinds of documents--project documents and text source-code documents.
edited by Bruce Schneier
Binary searches are algorithmic staples that can be used in just about any program. Micha Hofri sees how efficient he can make a basic binary-search algorithm.
by Dean Gahlon
Dean compares Practical Algorithms for C Programmers, by Andrew Binstock and John Rex, and Practical Algorithms in C++, by Bryan Flamig.
by Jonathan Erickson
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by Monica E. Berg