October 2001
Internet Appliances: Quick and Easy
Recipes for Network Appliances
By Amber Howle
A look at how UPS and the Pacific Stock Exchange rely on customized devices to manage the details of day to day business.
Talk SOAP
By Amit Asaravala
The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) makes intra-device communications a breeze. Get ready for online kitchens.
S T R A T E G Y :
Legal Code
Dealing with the Tasini v. New York Times aftermath will be a struggle. Bret A. Fausett asks, do you own your online content?
Effective Info Architecture
Once you know a few simple techniques, your users can show you how to organize your site. Andrew Chak shows you how to be an effective information architect.
Product Reviews
Various W3C-compliant browsers.
D E S I G N :
Integrated Design
HTML and CSS are nice, but Macromedia Flash is unparalleled. Molly E. Holzschlag explains why this medium is her favorite Web technology.
Taking a Content Inventory
Janice Crotty Fraser reminds you that for a Web site, once you take stock of what you have, you'll gain a better idea of where to put it.
Product Reviews
Jasc WebDraw .5b
Product Reviews
Animatek World Builder 3.0
D E V E L O P M E N T :
Multilingual Methods
Al Williams launches his new column with an exploration of ad hoc parsers for HTML filtering.
Programming with Perl
Transform flat-file databases into interactive documents, using three modules from the CPAN. Randal L. Schwartz shows you how to make interactive calendars in HTML.
Product Reviews
Microsoft Visual Studio .Net Enterprise Edition Beta 2
I N F R A S T R U C T U R E :
At Your Server
Jim Jagielski shows you how to take a load off your server by creating your own dedicated log appliance.
Roving Internet Appliances
New technologies can make your mobile appliance strategy less of a moving target. Michael Trachtman explores embedded databases, UDDI, and other industry initiatives engineered for mobile business devices.
Product Reviews
Intrinsyc CerfCube
Product Reviews
U.S. Robotics WAN Combination Set
E N D TO E N D :
Home Page
Editor in Chief Amit Asaravala admits, the first consumer Internet appliances were disappointments. But does that mean future generations will suffer a similar fate?
Webmaster's Domain
Lincoln D. Stein warns about the deep reaching impact of Microsoft's monopoly power.
Bookmarks
Eugene Eric Kim looks at Photoshop: Restoration & Retouching, and Information Anxiety 2.
Access: A Discussion with Hewlett-Packard's Jeff Morgan
A world of countless digital appliances can be tough to manage; but some folks at HP Labs (well, less now than there were at the time of writing this article) are betting that Cooltown will help us all get along.
