ACM Queue, Volume 3

Volume 3, Number 1, February 2005

From the editors

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  Edward Grossman:
  Puttin' the Queue in QA. 8

Letters

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  Edward Grossman:
  Letters. 10

Reader files

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  Edward Grossman:
  What's on your hard drive? 11

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious: the return. 12-13

Interview

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  Jim Gray:
  A conversation with Tim Bray. 20-25

Q focus: quality assurance

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  Stuart I. Feldman:
  Quality assurance: much more than testing. 26-29
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  Keith Stobie:
  Too darned big to test. 30-37
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  William W. White:
  Sifting through the software sandbox: SCM meets QA. 38-44
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  Michael Donat:
  Orchestrating an automated test lab. 46-53

Features

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  Mark Kobayashi-Hillary:
  A passage to India. 54-60

REVIEWS

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  Arun Ektare:
  Review of "Designing Software for the Mobile Context: A Practitioner's Guide (Computer Communications and Networks) by Roman Longoria (Ed.)". 61
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  Radu State:
  Review of "Network Security Architectures by Sean Convery". 61

Calendar

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  Edward Grossman:
  Calendar. 62

Curmedgeon

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  Terry Coatta:
  Traipsing through the QA tools desert. 64-

Volume 3, Number 2, March 2005

Patching and deployment

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  David J. Brown:
  An update on software updates. 10-11

Letters

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  Edward Grossman:
  Letters. 12-14

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 16

Reader files

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  Edward Grossman:
  What's on your hard drive? 18

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious reloaded. 20

Q focus: patch and deploy

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  Joseph Dadzie:
  Understanding software patching. 24-30
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  George Brandman:
  Patching the enterprise. 32-39
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  Dorian Birsan:
  On plug-ins and extensible architectures. 40-46

Features

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  Alex E. Bell:
  UML fever: diagnosis and recovery. 48-56

Book reviews

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  R. S. Chang:
  Review of "Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies by Jeff Zhuk". 58
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  David Bellin:
  Review of "PHP5 and MySQL Bible by Tim Converse and Joyce Park". 58

Calendar

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  Edward Grossman:
  Calendar. 60

Curmedgeon

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  Jef Raskin:
  Comments are more important than code. 64-

Volume 3, Number 3, April 2005

Databases: a brave new world From the editors

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  Edward Grossman:
  I am an abstraction layer. 8

Letters

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  Edward Grossman:
  Letters. 10

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 11

What's on your hard drive

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  Edward Grossman:
  What's on your hard drive. 14

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious battles on. 15-17

Interview

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  James R. Hamilton:
  A conversation with Pat Selinger. 18-28

Q focus: databases

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  Jim Gray, Mark Compton:
  A call to arms. 30-38
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  James Ostell:
  Databases of discovery. 40-48
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  Margo I. Seltzer:
  Beyond relational databases. 50-58

REVIEWS

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  André Mariën:
  Review of "Exploiting Software: How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw". 60
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  Carlos F. Enguix:
  Review of "Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web by Thomas B. Passin". 61

Calendar

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  Edward Grossman:
  Calendar. 62

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  File under "unknowable!". 64-

Volume 3, Number 4, May 2005

Going mobile From the editors

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  John Stanik:
  Mobile applications get real. 8

Letters

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  Edward Grossman:
  Letters. 10

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 14

Reader files

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  Edward Grossman:
  What's on your hard drive. 15

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious vs. Mothra. 16-18

Interview

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  Marshall K. McKusick:
  A conversation with Tim Marsland. 20-28

Q focus: mobile applications

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  Bruce Zenel:
  Enterprise-grade wireless. 30-37
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  Frederick L. Kitson:
  Mobile media: making it a reality. 38-47
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  Streams and standards: delivering mobile video. 48-53

Feature

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  Kevin R. Fall, Steven McCanne:
  You don't know jack about network performance. 54-59

Reviews

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  Review of "Expert .NET Programming by Simon Robinson". 60
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  Review of "Building Clustered Linux Systems by Robert W. Lucke". 60

Calendar

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  Edward Grossman:
  Calendar. 61

Curmudgeon

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  Phillip A. Laplante:
  Mal managerium: a field guide. 64-

Volume 3, Number 5, June 2005

Security: a war without end From the editors

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  Randy Harr:
  On feeling secure in an unsafe world. 8

Letters

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  Jim Maurer:
  Letters. 12

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 14

Reader files

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  Jim Maurer:
  What's on your hard drive? 16

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious gets dirty. 18-20

Interview

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  Jim Maurer:
  A conversation with Peter Tippett and Steven Hofmeyr. 22-32

Q focus: security

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  Thomas Wadlow:
  The answer is 42 of course. 34-39
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  John Viega:
  Security---problem solved? 40-50
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  Bruce Schneier:
  Attack trends: 2004 and 2005. 52-53

Feature

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  Ken Arnold:
  Programmers are people, too. 54-59

REVIEWS

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  Don Chand:
  Review of "Privacy: What Developers and IT Professionals Should Know by J. C. Cannon". 60
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  André Mariën:
  Review of "IPv6 Network Programming by Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino". 60

Calendar

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  Jim Maurer:
  Calendar. 61

Curmudgeon

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  Rodney Bates:
  Syntactic heroin. 64-

Volume 3, Number 6, July/August 2005

Enterprise distributed computing From the editors

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  Stuart I. Feldman:
  Distributed computing in the modern enterprise. 8

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 10

What's on your hard drive

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  Jim Maurer:
  What's on your hard drive? 12

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious. 14-16

Interview

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  Jim Maurer:
  A conversation with David Anderson. 18-25

Q focus: enterprise distributed computing

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  Ian T. Foster, Steven Tuecke:
  Describing the elephant: the different faces of IT as service. 26-29
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  Dean Jacobs:
  Enterprise software as service. 36-42
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  Pankaj Kumar:
  Web services and IT management. 44-49
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  Paul Strong:
  Enterprise grid computing. 50-59

Reviews

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  Sajjad Khan:
  Review of "Struts Recipes by George Franciscus and Danilo Gurovich". 60
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  Radu State:
  Review of "Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook by Shon Harris, Allen Harper, Chris Eagle, Jonathan Ness, and Michael Lester". 60

Calendar

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  Jim Maurer:
  Calendar. 61

Curmudgeon

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  Stanley Kelly-Bootle:
  Call that gibberish. 64-

Volume 3, Number 7, September 2005

Make way for multiprocessors News 2.0

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  Jim Maurer:
  News 2.0. 8

What's on your hard drive

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  Jim Maurer:
  What's on your hard drive? 10

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious. 12-14

Interview

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  Jim Maurer:
  A conversation with Roger Sessions and Terry Coatta. 16-25

Q focus: multiprocessors

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  Kunle Olukotun, Lance Hammond:
  The future of microprocessors. 26-29
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  Richard McDougall:
  Extreme software scaling. 36-46
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  Luiz André Barroso:
  The price of performance. 48-53
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  Herb Sutter, James R. Larus:
  Software and the concurrency revolution. 54-62

Curmudgeon

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  Mache Creeger:
  Multicore CPUs for the masses. 64-

Volume 3, Number 8, October 2005

Dealing with semi-structured data From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Unstructured, but not really. 8

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 10

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 12

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode Vicious unscripted. 14-16

Q focus: semi-structured data

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  Daniela Florescu:
  Managing semi-structured data. 18-24
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  Adam Bosworth:
  Learning from the web. 26-32
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  C. M. Sperberg-McQueen:
  XML <and semi-structured data>. 34-41
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  Natalya Fridman Noy:
  Order from chaos. 42-49
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  Alon Y. Halevy:
  Why your data won't mix. 50-58

Reviews

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  John S. Edwards:
  Review of "Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Adminstrators by Robert Haskins and Dale Nielsen". 60
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  Neil Karl:
  Review of "Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra". 60

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 61

Curmudgeon

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  Chris Suver:
  The cost of data. 64-

Volume 3, Number 9, November 2005

Social computing From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Socially acceptable behavior. 8

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 10

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 12

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode Vicious unscripted. 14-16

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Ray Ozzie. 18-26

Q focus: social computing

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  David R. Millen, Jonathan Feinberg, Bernard Kerr:
  Social bookmarking in the enterprise. 28-35
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  Andreas Gustafsson:
  Threads without the pain. 34-41
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  Vipul Ved Prakash, Adam J. O'Donnell:
  Fighting spam with reputation systems. 36-41
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  Andrew McCallum:
  Information extraction: distilling structured data from unstructured text. 48-57

Reviews

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  G. K. Jenkins:
  Review of "The Linux enterprise cluster by Karl Kopper", No Starch Press, 2005, Isbn 1593270364. 58
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  Fernando Berzal Galiano:
  Review of "Working effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers". 58

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 60

Curmudgeon

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  David A. Patterson:
  Stop whining about outsourcing! 64-

Volume 3, Number 10, December 2005

Managing megaservices From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  In with the new. 8

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 10

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 11

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Vicious XSS. 12-15

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Phil Smoot. 16-24

Q focus: managing megaservices

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  Daniel Rogers:
  Lessons from the floor. 26-32
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  Bill Hoffman:
  Monitoring, at your service. 34-43
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  Friedrich Steimann, Thomas Kühne:
  Coding for the code. 44-51

Reviews

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  A. K. Menon:
  Review of "Open Systems and Standards for Software Product Development by P. A. Dargan". 52
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  Andreas Tomek:
  Review of "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response: Deploying Network and Host IPS by Michael Rash, Angela D. Orebaugh, Graham Clark, Becky Pinkard, and Jake Babbin". 52

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Anything Su Doku, I can do better. 56-