ACM Queue, Volume 3

Volume 3, Number 1, February 2005

From the editors

Edward Grossman:
Puttin' the Queue in QA. 8
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Letters

Edward Grossman:
Letters. 10
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Reader files

Edward Grossman:
What's on your hard drive? 11
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode vicious: the return. 12-13
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Interview

Jim Gray:
A conversation with Tim Bray. 20-25
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Q focus: quality assurance

Stuart I. Feldman:
Quality assurance: much more than testing. 26-29
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Keith Stobie:
Too darned big to test. 30-37
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William W. White:
Sifting through the software sandbox: SCM meets QA. 38-44
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Michael Donat:
Orchestrating an automated test lab. 46-53
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Features

Mark Kobayashi-Hillary:
A passage to India. 54-60
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REVIEWS

Arun Ektare:
Review of "Designing Software for the Mobile Context: A Practitioner's Guide (Computer Communications and Networks) by Roman Longoria (Ed.)". 61
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Radu State:
Review of "Network Security Architectures by Sean Convery". 61
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Calendar

Edward Grossman:
Calendar. 62
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Curmedgeon

Terry Coatta:
Traipsing through the QA tools desert. 64-
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Volume 3, Number 2, March 2005

Patching and deployment

David J. Brown:
An update on software updates. 10-11
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Letters

Edward Grossman:
Letters. 12-14
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News 2.0

John Stanik:
News 2.0. 16
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Reader files

Edward Grossman:
What's on your hard drive? 18
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode vicious reloaded. 20
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Q focus: patch and deploy

Joseph Dadzie:
Understanding software patching. 24-30
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George Brandman:
Patching the enterprise. 32-39
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Dorian Birsan:
On plug-ins and extensible architectures. 40-46
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Features

Alex E. Bell:
UML fever: diagnosis and recovery. 48-56
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Book reviews

R. S. Chang:
Review of "Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies by Jeff Zhuk". 58
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David Bellin:
Review of "PHP5 and MySQL Bible by Tim Converse and Joyce Park". 58
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Calendar

Edward Grossman:
Calendar. 60
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Curmedgeon

Jef Raskin:
Comments are more important than code. 64-
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Volume 3, Number 3, April 2005

Databases: a brave new world From the editors

Edward Grossman:
I am an abstraction layer. 8
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Letters

Edward Grossman:
Letters. 10
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News 2.0

John Stanik:
News 2.0. 11
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What's on your hard drive

Edward Grossman:
What's on your hard drive. 14
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode vicious battles on. 15-17
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Interview

James R. Hamilton:
A conversation with Pat Selinger. 18-28
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Q focus: databases

Jim Gray, Mark Compton:
A call to arms. 30-38
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James Ostell:
Databases of discovery. 40-48
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Margo I. Seltzer:
Beyond relational databases. 50-58
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REVIEWS

André Mariën:
Review of "Exploiting Software: How to Break Code by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw". 60
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Carlos F. Enguix:
Review of "Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web by Thomas B. Passin". 61
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Calendar

Edward Grossman:
Calendar. 62
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Curmudgeon

Stan Kelly-Bootle:
File under "unknowable!". 64-
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Volume 3, Number 4, May 2005

Going mobile From the editors

John Stanik:
Mobile applications get real. 8
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Letters

Edward Grossman:
Letters. 10
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News 2.0

John Stanik:
News 2.0. 14
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Reader files

Edward Grossman:
What's on your hard drive. 15
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode vicious vs. Mothra. 16-18
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Interview

Marshall K. McKusick:
A conversation with Tim Marsland. 20-28
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Q focus: mobile applications

Bruce Zenel:
Enterprise-grade wireless. 30-37
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Frederick L. Kitson:
Mobile media: making it a reality. 38-47
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Streams and standards: delivering mobile video. 48-53
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Feature

Kevin R. Fall, Steven McCanne:
You don't know jack about network performance. 54-59
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Reviews

Review of "Expert .NET Programming by Simon Robinson". 60
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Review of "Building Clustered Linux Systems by Robert W. Lucke". 60
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Calendar

Edward Grossman:
Calendar. 61
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Curmudgeon

Phillip A. Laplante:
Mal managerium: a field guide. 64-
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Volume 3, Number 5, June 2005

Security: a war without end From the editors

Randy Harr:
On feeling secure in an unsafe world. 8
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Letters

Jim Maurer:
Letters. 12
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News 2.0

John Stanik:
News 2.0. 14
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Reader files

Jim Maurer:
What's on your hard drive? 16
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode vicious gets dirty. 18-20
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Interview

Jim Maurer:
A conversation with Peter Tippett and Steven Hofmeyr. 22-32
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Q focus: security

Thomas Wadlow:
The answer is 42 of course. 34-39
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John Viega:
Security---problem solved? 40-50
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Bruce Schneier:
Attack trends: 2004 and 2005. 52-53
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Feature

Ken Arnold:
Programmers are people, too. 54-59
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REVIEWS

Don Chand:
Review of "Privacy: What Developers and IT Professionals Should Know by J. C. Cannon". 60
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André Mariën:
Review of "IPv6 Network Programming by Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino". 60
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Calendar

Jim Maurer:
Calendar. 61
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Curmudgeon

Rodney Bates:
Syntactic heroin. 64-
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Volume 3, Number 6, July/August 2005

Enterprise distributed computing From the editors

Stuart I. Feldman:
Distributed computing in the modern enterprise. 8
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News 2.0

John Stanik:
News 2.0. 10
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What's on your hard drive

Jim Maurer:
What's on your hard drive? 12
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode vicious. 14-16
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Interview

Jim Maurer:
A conversation with David Anderson. 18-25
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Q focus: enterprise distributed computing

Ian T. Foster, Steven Tuecke:
Describing the elephant: the different faces of IT as service. 26-29
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Dean Jacobs:
Enterprise software as service. 36-42
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Pankaj Kumar:
Web services and IT management. 44-49
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Paul Strong:
Enterprise grid computing. 50-59
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Reviews

Sajjad Khan:
Review of "Struts Recipes by George Franciscus and Danilo Gurovich". 60
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Radu State:
Review of "Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook by Shon Harris, Allen Harper, Chris Eagle, Jonathan Ness, and Michael Lester". 60
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Calendar

Jim Maurer:
Calendar. 61
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Curmudgeon

Stanley Kelly-Bootle:
Call that gibberish. 64-
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Volume 3, Number 7, September 2005

Make way for multiprocessors News 2.0

Jim Maurer:
News 2.0. 8
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What's on your hard drive

Jim Maurer:
What's on your hard drive? 10
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode vicious. 12-14
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Interview

Jim Maurer:
A conversation with Roger Sessions and Terry Coatta. 16-25
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Q focus: multiprocessors

Kunle Olukotun, Lance Hammond:
The future of microprocessors. 26-29
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Richard McDougall:
Extreme software scaling. 36-46
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Luiz André Barroso:
The price of performance. 48-53
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Herb Sutter, James R. Larus:
Software and the concurrency revolution. 54-62
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Curmudgeon

Mache Creeger:
Multicore CPUs for the masses. 64-
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Volume 3, Number 8, October 2005

Dealing with semi-structured data From the editors

Charlene O'Hanlon:
Unstructured, but not really. 8
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News 2.0

John Stanik:
News 2.0. 10
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Reader files

Charlene O'Hanlon:
What's on your hard drive? 12
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode Vicious unscripted. 14-16
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Q focus: semi-structured data

Daniela Florescu:
Managing semi-structured data. 18-24
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Adam Bosworth:
Learning from the web. 26-32
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C. M. Sperberg-McQueen:
XML <and semi-structured data>. 34-41
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Natalya Fridman Noy:
Order from chaos. 42-49
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Alon Y. Halevy:
Why your data won't mix. 50-58
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Reviews

J. S. Edwards:
Review of "Slamming Spam: A Guide for System Adminstrators by Robert Haskins and Dale Nielsen". 60
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Neil Karl:
Review of "Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra". 60
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Calendar

Charlene O'Hanlon:
Calendar. 61
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Curmudgeon

Chris Suver:
The cost of data. 64-
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Volume 3, Number 9, November 2005

Social computing From the editors

Charlene O'Hanlon:
Socially acceptable behavior. 8
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News 2.0

John Stanik:
News 2.0. 10
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Reader files

Charlene O'Hanlon:
What's on your hard drive? 12
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Kode Vicious unscripted. 14-16
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Interview

Charlene O'Hanlon:
A conversation with Ray Ozzie. 18-26
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Q focus: social computing

David R. Millen, Jonathan Feinberg, Bernard Kerr:
Social bookmarking in the enterprise. 28-35
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Andreas Gustafsson:
Threads without the pain. 34-41
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Vipul Ved Prakash, Adam J. O'Donnell:
Fighting spam with reputation systems. 36-41
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Andrew McCallum:
Information extraction: distilling structured data from unstructured text. 48-57
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Reviews

G. K. Jenkins:
Review of "The Linux enterprise cluster by Karl Kopper", No Starch Press, 2005, Isbn 1593270364. 58
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Fernando Berzal Galiano:
Review of "Working effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers". 58
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Calendar

Charlene O'Hanlon:
Calendar. 60
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Curmudgeon

David A. Patterson:
Stop whining about outsourcing! 64-
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Volume 3, Number 10, December 2005

Managing megaservices From the editors

Charlene O'Hanlon:
In with the new. 8
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News 2.0

John Stanik:
News 2.0. 10
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Reader files

Charlene O'Hanlon:
What's on your hard drive? 11
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Kode vicious

George Neville-Neil:
Vicious XSS. 12-15
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Interview

Charlene O'Hanlon:
A conversation with Phil Smoot. 16-24
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Q focus: managing megaservices

Daniel Rogers:
Lessons from the floor. 26-32
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Bill Hoffman:
Monitoring, at your service. 34-43
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Friedrich Steimann, Thomas Kühne:
Coding for the code. 44-51
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Reviews

A. K. Menon:
Review of "Open Systems and Standards for Software Product Development by P. A. Dargan". 52
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Andreas Tomek:
Review of "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response: Deploying Network and Host IPS by Michael Rash, Angela D. Orebaugh, Graham Clark, Becky Pinkard, and Jake Babbin". 52
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Curmudgeon

Stan Kelly-Bootle:
Anything Su Doku, I can do better. 56-
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