1997 Readings

• How To Deinstall IE 3 (Windows Magazine)
• BSA: Microsoft Flunkie (Mother Jones)
• Wanna Pull an All-Nighter, Sans Overtime? (Wired)
• Microsoft pays high price for underestimating D.C. (The Seattle Times)
• Apple evangelist hits the road (ZDNet)
• Of Java and Controlled Virgins (Lisa Stapleton, Java Developer Connection)
• New 2D Graphics Features in Java 1.2 (Monica Pawlan, Java Developer Connection)
• Microsoft Warming to the Government It Ignored for Years (New York Times)
• AOL cuts chat police (news.com)
• Academy drops Oscar domain suit (news.com)
• Judge uninstalls IE in 90 seconds (news.com)
• The 10 Most Common Java Programming Mistakes (Web Review)
• Will Y2K trigger recession? (news.com)
• Apple undercut by another reseller (news.com)
• AOL wins latest spam battle (news.com)
• Antispammers urge Amazon boycott (news.com)
• Sun culture (news.com)
• DOJ (news.com)
• Users post guides to removing IE 3 (news.com)
• Navigators (Dave Winer, scripting.com)
• Microsoft complies with a raised middle finger (San Jose Mercury)
• Free Navigator in your future? (news.com)
• Sun's product plans alarm Java licensees (PC Week)
• Vaporware (WebWeek)
• IBM Retreats On Cryptolope (WebWeek)
• Can HotSpot live up to the hype? (news.com)
• What you need to know about the new Tcl/Tk Consortium (SunWorld)
• Security flap brews over SNMP (news.com)
• Developers Struggle Through Revolution (Wired)
• Keiretsu: That's Java for giant shortcut (Wired)
• The Move Toward Impure Java (PC Magazine)
• Roaster Shuts Down (MacWeek)
• The Girl Game Jinx (Salon)
• The Natural Life Cycle Of Mailing Lists (Kat Nagel)
• Technology News from Wired News (Wired)
• Book Publishing (Slate)
• The Double Helix (James Watson via amazon.com) possibly the most honest account of scientific progress ever written
• Sun offers hands-off approach (news.com)
• Sub-$1,000 market questioned (news.com)
• Adobe prepares to publish XML (news.com)
• Hotmail hot for deals (news.com)
• Dell introduces PCs with DVD (news.com)
• Yahoo suffers short hack attack (news.com)
• JAVA: Shooting Blanks (Upside)
• Clone sales ding Apple (news.com)
• The Self-Appointed Cops of the Information Age (New York Times)
• Passwords Detected, Computers Damaged Through E-Mail (newsbytes)
• Gov't contractors behind the technology curve (developer.com)
• Cost concerns moved modem standard (news.com)
• Apple compensation disclosed (news.com)
• IE 4.01 requirement angers NT users (news.com)
• RSI cases fall in industry reversal (news.com)
• Wired's founder speaks out (news.com)
• Print Is a Medium (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox February 1996)
• Functionality Applets vs. Content Applets (Alertbox October 1997)
• Reading on the Web (Alertbox October 1997)
• Changes in Web Usability Since 1994 (Alertbox Dec. 1997)
• Microsoft Calls Browser Vital To Windows 95 (Washington Post)
• Surfing and shopping at the mall (news.com)
• Bug threatens Net software (news.com)
• MS readies Office 98 for Macs (news.com)
• MSN restores email to AOL (news.com)
• Pamela Lee drops video case (news.com)
• Gates: MS banks' friend, not foe (Tim Clark, news.com)
• Reno says war on Net smut is just starting (Wired)
• Pretty Good Privacy Not Looking So Great (Wired)
• London woman sees the future of housework (CNN)
• Perl Conference Report ()
• Programming with Threads in Java 1.2 (Scott Oaks)
• Pure as it gets - Weighing in on Java (InfoWorld)
• What's the state of xDSL? - SunWorld - December 1997 (SunWorld)
• Paul Vixie and the Realtime Blackhole List (SunWorld)
• Filter spam out with procmail (SunWorld)
• Court upholds ruling on Net jurisdiction (news.com)
• AOL not accepting MSN email (news.com)
• Vendors to push XML as all-purpose Web middleware format (InfoWorld)
• Russia Holds Qualcomm Worker As Espionage Suspect (Washington Post)
• Getting Started with J/Direct (MSDN Online Buzz, Dr. GUI)
• EC acts for safer Net (news.com)
• Netscape updates browser tally (news.com)
• Colleges to give Windows top billing (news.com)
• Net ads list won't sell out (news.com)
• Juno files $5 million spam suit (news.com)
• Scientists want Net law veto (news.com)
• Not as Seen on TV (TechWeb)
• Story (ZDNet)
• AOL checks up on chat leaders (news.com)
• CompuServe given "death penalty" (news.com)
• Furor over spam mishap (news.com)
• Sun Lobbies China (Wired)
• TCP Bug Threatens Networked Computers (Wired)
• Finjan - Bruised, Battered, and Bloodied - Slumped over the Ropes (Mark Ladue)
• Strange brew: Finjan vs. Hostile Applets (Developer.com) More tales of companies that prefer lawyers to programmers
• The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
• Texas schools may go to laptops (news.com)
• AOL settlement challenged (news.com)
• Win 98 plays second fiddle (news.com)
• Justice counters Microsoft claims (news.com)
• Return of the spam king (news.com)
• AGIS turns back on spam (news.com)
• The Cult of O'Reilly (Jimmy Gutterman, Chicago Tribune Silicon Prairie)
• Sun wins Java ISO approval (news.com)
• Sun seeks order barring Microsoft use of Java logo (11/18/1997) ()
• Goodbye NEO, hello Enterprise Java Beans - SunWorld - November 1997 (SunWorld)
• Silicon, Intergraph to sue Intel (news.com)
• Steve Jobs, hypocrite (Jai Singh, news.com)
• NT 5.0 won't ship by mid-1998 (news.com)
• Trademark ruling shields NSI (news.com)
• Bill Gates isn't as stupid as he'd like you to think (Fred Moody, ABC News)
• Artificial Life (Steven Levy)
• Why Some People Hate Java (Adrian D. Havill )
• Microscopic bug in Excel (news.com)
• Antispam efforts heat up (news.com)
• Netscape removes Java logo (news.com)
• End of an era - Stanford now choosing PCs over Macs (Stanford Daily)
• Microsoft blasts Nader conference as a 'kangaroo court' ()
• Reseller undercuts Apple (news.com)
• Digital Watermarks Often Fail on Web Images (New York Times, subscription required)
• SPA can't resist sending spam (news.com)
• Sun has low hurdle for ISO approval (Alex Lash, news.com)
• A complex teen Net scam (Reuters)
• Sun admits error on Java benchmark (Alex Lash, news.com)
• Did Intel reboot the stock market? (news.com)
• Developers Express Widespread Dissatisfaction With Java (PR newswire)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (Walter Mosley) noir with a twist
• Stroustrup on Java (TechWeb)
• Developers object to JavaSoft practices (InfoWorld)
• Walt Disney-FBI Spy?
• The Practical SQL Handbook, 3rd Edition (Judith S. Bowman, Sandra L. Emerson, Marcy Darnovsky)
• Design Patterns (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides)
• Magaziner urges new antitrust policy (news.com)
• Spec to bring TV-like content to Net (news.com)
• Sun's Chief, Defending Java, Calls for E-Mail Campaign Against Gates (New York Times, subscription required)
• Various comments on Sun and Microsoft
• Online hate speech on trial (news.com)
• Web sites battle over trademarks (news.com)
• The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
• BeBox Journal #14 (ZDNet)
• Political email sparks spam debate (news.com)
• Senate reviews IE contract with ISP (news.com)
• Apple snags deal with CompUSA (news.com)
• New domain names afoot (news.com)
• Onsale says mail wasn't spam (news.com)
• Does Java WebTop spec clash with WORA mantra? (Erich Luening and Mike Ricciuti, news.com)
• Kona Stirs Up the Pot (John Dodge, PC Week)
• JBMS (news.com)
• What's a few MIPs between friends? Why SGI and Apple are about to be changed forever. (Robert X. Cringely)
• The Best Attornies Money Can Buy (Fred Moody)
• The Tribe of Tiger (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas)
• The secret weapon Apple threw away (Jodi Mardesich, San Jose Mercury News) Deep-cover project ran Mac OS on Intel processors
• Java Database Programming with JDBC (Pratik Patel and Karl Moss)
• Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (Stephen Crane) My high school English teacher called this novel by the author of The Red Badge of Courage "pornography" with no redeeming literary value whatsoever, so of course I had to pick it up when I found it in the library the other day. I'm a little disappointed. So far it's not the least bit pornographic, but it is a stunning depiction of life on the Lower East Side of New York City, circa 1890.
• Inside the W3C (c|net)
• Raising the Java Standard (Mark Schlack, Byte)
• Drowning in the Surf: A Review of Finjan Software's SurfinShield 2.0 (Mark D. LaDue)
• Java - The Microsoft Perspective (Roger Sessions, Object Watch)
• Database vendors eye a la carte pricing (Mike Ricciuti, news.com)
• Giving New Meaning to Search Engines (Ilan Greenberg, Wired)
• The importance of being earnest about Java (Stan Gibson, PC Week)
• The Wiz Biz (Rick Cook) Did you ever wonder what a magic compiler might look like?
• Does Intel's delay in building semiconductor plant signal trouble? (news.com)
• Microserfs (Douglas Coupland) a modern classic of life inside Microsoft and Silicon Valley
• Welcome to Bill-Mart! Microsoft releases retail version of IE 4.0 (news.com) For something that's allegedly part of the OS, IE sure smells like a separate application
• Microsoft case hinges on these 55 words: The pivotal paragraph (news.com)
• Java Crusade (Richard Brandt, Upside)
• Gates to Carlton on Apple (Bill Gates)
• Documents detail MS's Netscape envy (Alex Lash, news.com)
• Moral Arguments (davenet) in which Dave Winer makes the mistake of assuming morality has any relevance at all to the behavior of Microsoft
• Sun hands off Java testing to outside lab (not quite) (InfoWorld)
• Java network programming books: A comparative review (Laurence Vanhelsuwe, JavaWorld)
• Silicon Valley's love of lawsuits (Reuters)
• Microsoft threatened Compaq, Gateway, Micron over IE (Michael Moeller, ZDNet)
• Dragons of Summer Flame (Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman)
• Make Microsoft Suffer (Michael Kanellos, news.com)
• Net makes France review polling ban (Reuters)
• Net registry NSI slapped with domain class action suit
• Net jams hinder fast connections (Jeff Pelline, news.com)
• Microsoft and Restraint (davenet)
• Microsoft reportedly threatened Compaq (Reuters)
• Cautious Assessments of Case (news.com)
• MSNtropy: Lights on, Nobody Home (news.com)
• The Man Behind the Curtain (davenet)
• The lawsuit nobody needs (PC Week)
• Database Design for Mere Mortals (Michael J. Hernandez)
• The CDA is annoyed (news.com)
• Forget Webmasters! Bring on the Webagogues! (c|net)
• The Soccer War (Honduras Today)
• Microsoft investigated in Europe (news.com)
• CEO shuffled, Rumors Muffled (news.com) Will Oracle take over Apple? and dirty doings at JavaLobby
• McNealy expects protracted Microsoft suit
• Sun switches course with new Java chip (SunWorld Online)
• QuackWatch
• Stand on Zanzibar (John Brunner)
• Attornies weigh online jurisdiction (news.com)
• A Message About TeX Fonts (Donald Knuth)
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (Peter Norvig)
• The Hard Truth About Microsoft-Sun's Java Battle Spinmeisters (Jai Singh, news.com)
• How to avoid potential pitfalls of Microsoft's non-standard SDK for Java (John Zukowski, JavaWorld)
• Sun-Microsoft Dispute Gets Ugly (SunWorld)
• SchmertzWorks (Thoughts on the lawsuit)
• Miko Evangelizes (Sun's response to Microsoft's response to Sun's lawsuit)
• Database Backed Web Sites (Philip Greenspun)
• The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe)
• What does Sun's lawsuit against Microsoft mean for Java developers? (John Zukowski, JavaWorld)
• The New breed of cyber-pundits (Paul Keegan, Upside)
• Three Years of DaveNet (Dave Winer)
• Push patents raise issues for industry (news.com) Another ridiculous, obvious, overly broad patent that should never have been granted and will force companies to waste money on lawyers instead of innovation.
• Against Software Patents (The League for Programming Freedom)
• SUN SUES MICROSOFT, CLAIMING IE 4.0 FAILS JAVA TEST (news.com)
• Read It and Weep: Online Publishing Actually Boosts Sales (Washington Post)
• The book behind the book behind the book... (Philip Greenspun's experiences in the ugly world of computer book publishing)
• Web Site Development (Philip Greenspun's thoughts on static web sites)
• You are your own worst security risk (Eamonn Sullivan, PC Week) Why code signing is the wrong security model
• Chapters 14 through 16 of Principles of Object Oriented Programming in Java 1.1 (James W. Cooper) Examples of design patterns in Java
• Weeding Your Website Part 1 (SunWorld Online)
• An interview with Bill Gates (news.com)
• Choosing a scripting language (SunWorld Online)
• Is Java's Lava still rushing through the enterprise? Or has it solidified? (Netroscope Press Release)
• Fraternity antics at Netscape (Skinny Dubaud)
• Crash video lands in US (Wired News) Ted Turner, censor
• @Home to Reach Millions More but can they handle the thousands they've already got? (news.com)
• PCs are great: But what about wearable computers with speech features? (news.com)
• Local Storage for Faster Java (news.com)
• Woman Hired Hitman on Internet (USA Today) News of the Weird and Stupid
• Hayes Offering Modem Rebates (news.com)
• AOL files suit against spammer (news.com)
• MacPravda (Turn Left)
• Learn to performance tune your Java programs (SunWorld Online)
• Microsoft's "Java Evangelist" responds to Java Lobby requests (JavaWorld)
• JavaSoft alters JDK schedule to ensure portability and lack of bugs (JavaWorld)
• Developers rally to JavaLobby, petition Gates (ComputerWorld)