ACM Queue, Volume 4

Volume 4, Number 1 , February 2006

From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Quality really is job #1. 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:
  Gettin' your kode on. 12-14

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Jarod Jenson. 16-24

Q focus: system performance

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  Bryan Cantrill:
  Hidden in plain sight. 26-36
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  Philip Beevers:
  A high-performance team. 38-43
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  Bart Smaalders:
  Performance anti-patterns. 44-50
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  Mark Purdy:
  Modern Performance Monitoring. 48-57

Reviews

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  Arthur Gittleman:
  Review of "Foundations of Ajax by Ryan Asleson, " Nathaniel Schutta, APress, 2005, ISBN 1590595823. 62
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  Radu State:
  Review of "Switching to VoIP by Ted Wallingford, " O'Reilly & Associates, 2005, ISBN 0596008686. 62

Curmudgeon

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  Phillip A. Laplante:
  It isn't your father's realtime anymore. 64-

Volume 4, Number 2, March 2006

Letters

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Letters. 7

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 8

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 9

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Human-KV interaction. 10-12

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Steve Ross-Talbot. 14-23

Q focus: workflow systems

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  Peter de Jong:
  Going with the flow. 24-32
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  James Champy:
  People and process. 34-38
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  Derek Miers:
  Best practice (BPM). 40-48
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  Duncan Johnston-Watt:
  Under new management. 50-58

Reviews

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  Marc Paquette:
  Review of "Wiki: Web Collaboration by Anja Ebersbach, Markus Glaser and Richard Heigl, " Springer, 2005, ISBN 3540259953. 59
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  Elliot Jaffe:
  Review of "Pro Perl by Peter Wainwright, " Apress, 2005, ISBN 159059438X. 59

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 60-61

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  But, having said that, ... 64-

Volume 4, Number 3, April 2006

Purpose-built systems From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  The private universe. 7

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 8

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 9

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Kode vicious bugs out. 10-12

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Chuck McManis. 13-21

Q focus: purpose-built systems

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  Terry Coatta:
  The (not so) hidden computer. 22-26
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  Jim Barton:
  TiVo-lution. 28-35
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  Stephen Johnson:
  Java in a teacup. 36-41

Reviews

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  Radu State:
  Review of "Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions by Richard Bejtlich, " Adddison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN: 0321349962. 42
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  Andrea Paramithiotti:
  Review of "Grid Database Design by April Wells, " Auerbach Publications, 2005, ISBN: 0849328004. 42

Curmudgeon

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  Mache Creeger:
  Evolution or revolution? 56-

Volume 4, Number 4, May 2006

From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  The domino effect. 8

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 9

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 10-11

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Phishing for solutions. 12-13

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Werner Vogels. 14-22

Features

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  Jeff Barr, Luis-Felipe Cabrera:
  AI gets a brain. 24-29
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  Ryan Barrows, Jim Traverso:
  Search considered integral. 30-36
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  Taf Anthias, Krishna Sankar:
  The network's new role. 38-46

Reviews

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  Andreas Tomek:
  Review of "Protect your Windows Network: From Perimeter to Data by Jesper Johansson and Steve Riely, " Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN: 0321336437. 42
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  Bernard Kuc:
  Review of "Open Source Wireless Java Tools Suite by Robert Virkus, " Apress, 2005, ISBN: 1590595033. 48
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  George Hacken:
  Review of "High-Assurance Design: Architecting Secure and Reliable Enterprise Applications by Clifford Berg, " Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN: 0321375777. 50
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  Jose Lloret:
  Review of "Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security by Himanshu Dwivedi, " Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN: 0321349954. 50

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 52-53

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  The calculus formally known as pi. 56-

Volume 4, Number 5, June 2006

Component technologies From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Accessorizing. 6

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 7

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 8

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Phishing for solutions. 9-10

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Leo Chang of ClickShift. 12-18

Q focus: component technologies

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  Greg Olsen:
  From COM to Common. 20-26
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  Michi Henning:
  The rise and fall of CORBA. 28-34
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  Chris Richardson:
  Untangling enterprise Java. 36-44
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  Len Takeuchi:
  ASPs: the integration challenge. 46-52

Reviews

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  A. Moreno:
  Review of "Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn, " Prentice Hall PTR, 2005, ISBN: 0131479415. 59
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  Michael Laszlo:
  Review of "Component-Oriented Programming by Andy Ju An Wang and Kai Qian, " Wiley-Interscience, 2005, ISBN: 0471644463. 59

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 60-61

Curmudgeon

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  Alex E. Bell:
  Software development amidst the whiz of silver bullets... 64-

Volume 4, Number 6, July-August 2006

The future of HCI From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Able bodies. 8

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 9

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 10

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Pointless PKI. 11-12

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Jordan Cohen. 14-23

Q focus: the future of HCI

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  John F. Canny:
  The future of human-computer interaction. 24-32
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  James L. Crowley:
  Social perception. 34-43
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  Gaetano Borriello:
  The inivisble assistant. 44-49
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  Jim Christensen, Jeremy B. Sussman, Stephen Levy, William E. Bennett, Tracee Vetting Wolf, Wendy A. Kellogg:
  Too much information. 50-57

Reviews

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  Bayard Kohlhepp:
  Review of "Windows and Linux Integration: Hands-on Solutions for a Mixed Environment by Jermy Moskowitz and Thomas Boutell, " Sybex Inc., 2005, ISBN: 0782144284. 58
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  Melissa C. Stange:
  Review of "Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and Threading by David Curran, Fabio Ferracchiati, Syed Gilani, et al., " Apress, 2005, ISBN: 1590594525. 58

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 59

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Like a podcast in the sea: mean ol' LoTech blues. 64-

Volume 4, Number 7, September 2006

Compliance From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Playing by the rules. 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? 10

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Facing the strain. 12-13

geek@home

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  Mache Creeger:
  Rationalizing a home terabyte server. 14-17

Q focus: compliance

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  Eric Allman:
  Complying with compliance. 18-21
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  George W. Beeler Jr., Dana Gardner:
  A requirements primer. 22-26
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  John Bostick:
  Box their SOXes off. 28-29
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  J. C. Cannon, Marilee Byers:
  Compliance deconstructed. 30-37
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  Tracy Ragan:
  Keeping score in the IT compliance game. 38-43

Reviews

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  Vladan M. Jovanovic:
  Review of "Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design by Scott Ambler and Pramodkumar Sadalage, " Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006, ISBN: 0321293533. 44
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  Radu State:
  Review of "Software Security: Building Security In by Gary McGraw, " Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006, ISBN: 0321356705. 44

Curmudgeon

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  Greg A. Nolann:
  Seeking compliance nirvana. 72-

Volume 4, Number 8, October 2006

System evolution From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Reality vs. perception. 7

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 8

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 9

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Saddle up, aspiring code jockeys. 10-11

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with David Brown. 14-23

Q focus: system evolution

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  John R. Mashey:
  The long road to 64 bits. 24-35
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  Dan Rubel:
  The heart of eclipse. 36-44
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  Damon Poole:
  Breaking the major release habit. 46-51

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 52

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  You can look it up: or maybe not. 56-

Volume 4, Number 9, November 2006

Cybercrime From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  The criminal mind. 7

News 2.0

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  John Stanik:
  News 2.0. 8

Reader files

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  What's on your hard drive? 9

Kode vicious

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  George V. Neville-Neil:
  Understanding the problem. 10-12

geek@home

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  Mache Creeger:
  Better health care through technology. 13-15

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with Douglas W. Jones and Peter G. Neumann. 16-23

Q focus: cybercrime

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  Team Cymru:
  Cybercrime: an epidemic. 24-35
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  Eric Allman:
  E-mail authentication: what, why, how? 30-34
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  Thomas Wadlow, Vlad Gorelik:
  Criminal code: the making of a cybercriminal. 36-41
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  Daniel E. Geer Jr.:
  Playing for keeps. 42-48

Reviews

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  Radu State:
  Review of "Phishing Exposed by Lance James and Joe Stewart, " Syngress Publishing, 2005, ISBN: 159749030X. 50
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  Markus Wolf:
  Review of "Spring in Action by Craig Walls and Ryan Breidenbach, " Manning Publications, 2005, ISBN: 1932394354. 50

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 52

Curmudgeon

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  Phillip A. Laplante:
  The joy of spam. 56-

Volume 4, Number 10, December 2006 - January 2007

Computer architecture From the editors

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Forward thinking. 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:
  Peerless P2P. 12-13

Interview

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  A conversation with John Hennessy and David Patterson. 14-22

Q focus: computer architecture

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  Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Christos Kozyrakis, Bratin Saha:
  Unlocking concurrency. 24-33
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  Simon Crosby, David Brown:
  The virtualization reality. 34-41
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  Brian E. Carpenter:
  Better, faster, more secure. 42-48

Reviews

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  Diomidis Spinellis:
  Review of "Sustainable Software Development: An Agile Perspective by Kevin Tate, " Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005, ISBN: 0321286081. 49
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  Radu State:
  Review of "Hacking Exposed: Web Applications, 2nd edition by Joel Scambray, Mike Shema, and Caleb Sima, " McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2006, ISBN: 0072262990. 49

Calendar

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  Charlene O'Hanlon:
  Calendar. 50

Curmudgeon

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  Stan Kelly-Bootle:
  Will the real bots stand up? 56-