November 1998
The Buzz Around B2B
Business-to-Business E-Commerce
By Michael Carroll
What does the Web have in common with traditional EDI? It's all about moving data, and today's technology is making the process a lot easier. In this article Michael discusses various methods for leveraging the Web to integrate business functions across corporate boundaries.
Scaling For Enterprise
By Maynard Vitalis and Eric Delore
Proven architectural concepts work for large, industrial-strength distributed-software applications. The situation is no different when building applications for the Web. Maynard and Eric tell you why.
Shopping Without A Cart
By Lauren Hightower
Is there something wrong with the current model for shopping on the Web? Lauren thinks so, and she presents a more intuitive alternative using Microsoft's implementation of Dynamic HTML along with its Remote Data Services.
C O L U M N S :
Webmaster's Domain
While in the U.S. we may be concerned about personal liberty, in Europe the hot topic is privacy. Lincoln D. Stein looks at how the European Commissions' rulings are affecting our own privacy issues.
Visual Designer
Forget striving for user-friendly palettes: Getting the right color to display on a monitor can be an even more fundamental problem. This month Lynda Weinman discusses two standards related to computer-display calibration.
Database Developer
In the second of a two-part series, Ken North surveys what some commercial vendors are doing about dates and the coming millennium, and then ponders his own solution--a long South Pacific cruise.
Programming with Perl
Keeping file systems synchronized is a common problem in distributed computing. You could use a commercial replication product, but as Randal Schwartz points out, it's easy using the Web. Just add LWP::Simple::mirror to your tool kit.
Java@Work
When is an array not an array? In Java, it might be when it's a Vector a BitSet, or even a HashTable. In this refresher course on arrays, Al Williams counts on Java's object-oriented paradigm to get the right answer.
Beyond HTML
Tim Berners-Lee may have invented the World Wide Web, but before HTML there was SGML. This month Michael Floyd interviews the grandfather of today's markup language, Charles F. Goldfarb.
D E P A R T M E N T S :
Business Developer
In the premiere of our new department, learn why scaling up means more than just buying more hardware and software: Joe Vierra explains the rationale behind the redesign of CompareNet's successful Web site.
Lab Note
Some would argue that if you know the structure of a Web site, you can use the URL as an API into the site. WIDL goes a step further and uses XML to create metadata about sites so that information can be collected and shared across multiple sites. webMethods B2B Integration Server makes it possible.
The Home Page
Editor-in-Chief Bob Kaehms explains what happens "When Worlds Collide."
News & Notes
Tools That Tcl Me Pro; The GNU Jumped over the Window.
The Last Page
Editorial Director Dale Dougherty tells you "One or More Things I Learned From Regular Expressions."
