Explores features that allow distributed real-time and embedded applications to select protocol properties and to explicitly bind clients to server objects using pre-allocated connections, priority bands, and private connections.

Carl Sassenrath on creating agents with Rebol.

This easy to understand language may become the scripting choice for the code challenged.

Summarizes the motivation for the new type qualifier restrict and explains how to use it. Also shows a way to check how well compilers exploit the possibilities of restrict. (C/C++ Users Journal)

Reviews guidelines developed years ago for throwing exceptions and how to use exception specifications.

When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?

Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets.

Article discussing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) by Molly E. Holzschlag.

Sun Java Internationalization and Localization Toolkit 2.0, and Multilizer Java Edition Pro 2.0.

Sharing requires waiting and overhead, and is a natural enemy of scalability. This article focuses on one important case, namely mutable (writable) shared objects in memory, which are an inherent bottleneck to scalability on multicore systems.