May 2000
Heat & Serve Scripts
PerlScript: A Hot Ingredient for ASP
By Shelley Powers
Active Server Pages have long been written in VBScript. Yet, with help from ActiveState, more and more developers are starting to spice up their Web pages with PerlScript. Shelley Powers shows you how and when to make the switch.
Caffeinate Your HTML with a Shot of Java
By Michael Trachtman
A healthy alternative to ASP, JavaServer Pages let you create dynamic sites with an object-oriented language. For developers who work primarily on UNIX-based platforms, Michael Trachtman believes that this is a good thing.
Preserving Integrity: Don't Let Tainted Data Get You in a Jam
By Matt Curtin
Is your Perl so full of security holes that it could pass for Swiss cheese? In this follow-up to last month's feature article, Matt Curtin examines the pitfalls of scripting languages.
S T R A T E G Y :
Upper Hand
Margaret Berry reveals what really happens to your press releases once you send them out.
Corporate Strategist
Cheryl Currid tracks the bandwidth hog in the next cubicle.
Product Review
SoftCart 5.0
D E S I G N :
Integrated Design
Molly E. Holzschlag predicts that pretty soon, all our Web pages will be coded in XHTML.
Real-World Cross-Browser HTML Development
Joel Anderson and Chris Kunicki offer solutions for browser incompatibility. Finally.
Inside Design Shops
The ad houses duke it out with the design firms. Lucas Daniel acts as emcee.
Product Review
Flash 4
P R O G R A M M I N G :
Java@Work
Al Williams invites you to try your hand at a game that's part Java, part JavaScript.
Programming with Perl
Randal L. Schwartz outlines basic authentication for newbies.
XML@Large
Michael Floyd believes it's all about the data—and how to get at it.
Script Junkie
When it comes to analyzing log files, PerlScript is decidedly lower in calories than VBScript, touts Kent Tegels.
Data-Drive Sites with Midgard
Zope isn't the only Open Source site-management tool out there. Brian Jepson introduces Midgard.
Product Review
ChiliSoft ASP
Product Review
iASP
I N F R A S T R U C T U R E :
Connections
John Stewart shows you how to monitor your network status with MRTG and Cricket.
Platforms
Ray Valdés wants to make sure that you know templates are the answer to separating form from function.
Managing Groups in LDAP
Mark Wilcox reassures that managing groups in LDAP is not as hard as it seems.
Insight
Stayin' Alive
Jim Jagielski discusses how small hosting companies subsists with the big fish.
Product Review
VelociGen
E N D TO E N D :
The Home Page
Has the Web industry developed an internal Seuss-like language of its own? Executive Editor Amit Asaravala contemplates the idea in "Speaking in Tongues."
Webmaster's Domain
Lincoln D. Stein writes that Napster spells trouble. But did it ask for it?
Redirect
Dale Dougherty is "Seeking Professional Help" after trying to install Windows 2000 himself.
Haiku Review
A product announcement based on the song "Cold Turkey"? John Lennon is turning in his grave.
Help Desk
John Mark Walker shows you how to manage content as well as keep it fresh, and how to organize query results.
Bookmarks
Eugene Eric Kim covers books on the Python language for scripting neophytes, and on Tcl and Tk for programming gurus.
The Last Page
Michael Swaine muses upon prose, supposing that multidimensional links might ease his vexation at stagnant text. Dream on!
