by Eugene Eric Kim
Will the Internet really change the way we live, work, learn, govern, and communicate? Eugene reports on a Harvard University symposium that looked for the answer to this and other questions.
by Frederic Bien, Michel Delory, and Richard McGillis
Our authors present SurfReport, a program that takes the nearly unreadable format of your web-site log entries, and converts them to a meaningful report of who has been accessing your site.
by Andrew Davison
Andrew presents two approaches to creating access counters-one that's based on server-side includes, and another that utilizes the CGI protocol.
by Mary Kroening
WebLS is a logic-based system that's designed to "automatically" answer commonly asked technical-support questions via the Web.
by Anil Hemrajani
Java's java.net package provides the tools you need for developing client and server applications for the Internet. Anil examines this class and shows how you can make the most of it.
by Vinod Anantharaman
Microsoft's ActiveX Documents are designed to make it possible for heterogeneous documents to integrate seamlessly with a wide variety of container applications, including multivendor Web browsers.
by Mark Carolan
While Mark's PlugInstall was originally designed for installing plug-ins for Netscape Navigator, it's flexible enough for general-purpose Windows 95 installation.
by Michael Abrash
Michael always thought you had to resort to fixed-point math when attacking real-time, 3-D problems. But with its faster floating-point instructions, pipelined floating-point unit, and parallel FXCH, the Pentium has changed his way of thinking.
by Hal W. Hardenbergh
DRAM and the future of Windows NT are Hal's focus in this issue.
by Al Williams
Adding Net-related functionality to your software used to mean knowing all about TCP/IP stacks, domain name services, and protocols. Tools such as Microsoft's ActiveX Internet Control Pack now do the work for you.
by Marc E. Brown
What really happens when software is involved in a legal dispute? Marc examines the anatomy of a software lawsuit.
by Allen Holub
The next battles in the component architectures war may pit OLE against Java. Allen examines the two competing object models.
by Tim Kientzle