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Allen Wyke</strong><br> <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Implementing ad software on your site, Part 1 <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> Implementing ad software on your site, Part 2 <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> Plugin content for your Web site <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> JavaScript comes of age <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Is XML changing the future of Web publishing? <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Building cross-browser DHTML, Part 1 <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> Building cross-browser DHTML, Part 2 <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> Understanding the XHTML 1.0 proposed recommendation <li><a href="/">January 2000</a> Educating the Webmaster 2000 <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> Weblogs are not dead <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> Rollover effects made easy <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> Privacy concerns in today's online world <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> Everything about HTML tables <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Getting a handle on frames <p> <strong><a name="perf">Performance Q&A</a> by Adrian Cockcroft</strong><br> <li><a href="/">October 1995</a> How SunOS and Solaris handle memory usage. <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> When is it faster to have 64 bits? <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> System integration drives performance improvements. <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> Solaris 2's tunable kernel parameters. <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> Which is better, static or dynamic linking? <li><a href="/">March 1996</a> Watching your Web server. <li><a href="/">April 1996</a> How does swap space work? <li><a href="/">May 1996</a> How much RAM is enough? <li><a href="/">June 1996</a> How do disks really work? <li><a href="/">July 1996</a> How can I optimize my programs for UltraSPARC? <li><a href="/">August 1996</a> What's the best way to probe processes? <li><a href="/">September 1996</a> Unveiling vmstat's charms <li><a href="/">October 1996</a> Solving the <code>iostat</code> disk mystery <li><a href="/">November 1996</a> Choosing the right disk configurations for servers <li><a href="/">December 1996</a> Tips for TCP/IP monitoring <li><a href="/">January 1997</a> Get better results when you design your cache to match your applications and system <li><a href="/">February 1997</a> Increase system performance by maximizing your cache <li><a href="/">March 1997</a> How to optimize caching file accesses <li><a href="/">April 1997</a> Craving more information on Solaris? Look no further <li><a href="/">May 1997</a> The memory go round <li><a href="/">June 1997</a> Analysis of TCP transfer characteristics for Web servers made easier <li><a href="/">July 1997</a> Dissecting proxy Web cache performance <li><a href="/">August 1997</a> How does Solaris 2.6 improve performance stats and Web performance? <li><a href="/">September 1997</a> Clarifying disk measurements and terminology <li><a href="/">October 1997</a> Learn to performance tune your Java programs <li><a href="/">November 1997</a> Performance perplexities: Help! Where do I start? <li><a href="/">December 1997</a> At last! The updated SE release has arrived <li><a href="/">January 1998</a> SE Toolkit FAQ <li><a href="/">February 1998</a> <code>Perfmeter</code> unmasked <li><a href="/">March 1998</a> Sizing up memory in Solaris <li><a href="/">April 1998</a> Prying into processes and workloads <li><a href="/">May 1998</a>Processor partitioning <li><a href="/">June 1998</a> How busy is the CPU, really? <li><a href="/">July 1998</a> Clearing up swap space confusion <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> Unlocking the kernel <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> Do collision levels accurately tell you what you need to know about your Ethernet? <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> What's the holdup? How is wait time measured? <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> What's new in Solaris 7? <li><a href="/">December 1998</a> Out and about at conferences <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Disk tracing revisited <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> Upgrades for SyMON and SE <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> Digging into the details of WorkShop 5.0 <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Graphically monitor your Web server <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Analyzing process behavior <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> Disk error detection <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> What does 100 percent busy mean? <p> <strong>See Adrian Cockcroft's frequently asked questions</strong>, for answers to three dozen performance-related questions. Subjects covered include performance monitoring commands, tuning variables, logins and processes, how to interpret the output of performance measurements, and how to optimize Web servers and news servers. <a href="/">http://www.sunworld.com/common/cockcroft.letters.html</a> <p> <strong>Adrian's columns at www.sun.com</strong> <li><a href="/">virtual_adrian.se</a> rule http://www.sun.com//951001/columns/adrian/column2.html <li><a href="/">"New Release of the SE Performance Toolkit"</a> http://www.sun.com/960301/columns/adrian/column7.html <li><a href="/">"Solaris 2.5 Performance Update"</a> http://www.sun.com/960201/columns/adrian/ <li><a href="/">"Confessions of an Ultra 1 User"</a> http://www.sun.com/951107/columns/adrian/column3.html <li><a href="/">"Advanced Monitoring and Tuning"</a> http://www.sun.com/951001/columns/adrian/column2.html <li><a href="/">"System Performance Monitoring"</a> http://www.sun.com/950901/columns/adrian/column1.html <p> <strong><a name="insidesolaris">Inside Solaris</a> by Jim Mauro</strong><br> <li><a href="/">August 1997 </a> Processor utilization and wait I/O -- a look inside <li><a href="/">September 1997</a> Shared memory uncovered <li><a href="/">October 1997</a> Setting our sights on semaphores <li><a href="/">November 1997</a> Demangling message queues <li><a href="/">December 1997</a> Swap space implementation, part 1 <li><a href="/">January 1998</a> Swap space implementation, part 2 <li><a href="/">February 1998</a> Fiddling around with files, part 1: "How many files can I open?" <li><a href="/">March 1998</a> Fiddling around with files, part 2: file APIs and types <li><a href="/">April 1998</a> Fiddling around with files, part 3: file access modes <li><a href="/">May 1998</a> Fiddling around with files, part 4: descriptor file flags and structure <li><a href="/">June 1998</a> Controlling permissions with access control lists <li><a href="/">July 1998</a> Asynchronous I/O and large file support in Solaris <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> Peeling back the process layers <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> The Solaris process model, part 2 <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> More on the Solaris process model <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> Inside Solaris 7 <li><a href="/">December 1998</a> The Solaris process model, Part 4: More on the kernel <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> The Solaris process model, Part 5: The kernel dispatcher <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> The Solaris process model, Part 6: Inside the kernel dispatcher <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> The Solaris process model, Part 7: Managing thread execution and wait times in the system clock handler <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> A primer on signals, Part 1 <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> A primer on signals, Part 2 <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> Priorities revisited <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> It's time to wake up! The intricacies of sleep and wakeup in Solaris <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> Turnstiles and priority inheritance <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Kernel synchronization primitives <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Unlocking Solaris <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> Keeping time <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> Communicating the POSIX way <li><a href="/">February 2000</a> The dynamic Solaris kernel <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> Resource utilization and microstate accounting <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> The kernel directory <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Threads libraries in Solaris <p> <strong><a name="insidesolaris">Inside Solaris</a> by Richard McDougall</strong><br> <li><a href="/">July 2000</a> Comparing swap space <p> <strong><a name="itarchitect">IT Architect</a> by Kara Kapczynski</strong><br> <li><a href="/">March 1998</a> The world of the technical architect <li><a href="/">April 1998</a> Planning your middleware strategy <li><a href="/">May 1998</a> The anatomy of the virtual corporation <li><a href="/">June 1998</a> Application integration without band-aids <li><a href="/">July 1998</a> The logical data model <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> The architect's role in package application integration <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> Taking out the trash (the Java Garbage Collector) <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> Battle of the JVMs <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> Architecting high availability solutions <li><a href="/">December 1998</a> System interface design -- where do you start? <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Application design with patterns <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> Testing, testing 1, 2, 3 <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> The physical data architecture <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Expanding your server-side toolkit with Enterprise JavaBeans <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> From conception to solution; techniques and tricks to help you architect a system from the ground up <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> XML and the IT architect <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> How to design your Web site for availability <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> Enterprise application integration -- message broker style <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> The emergence of workflow management in enterprise-class business solutions <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Understanding Java messaging and JMS <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> Planning your enterprise computer telephony integration <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> The art of sizing projects <p> <strong><a name="security">Security: Pete's Wicked World</a> by Peter Galvin</strong><br> <li><a href="/">July 1995</a> An introduction to future security columns and topics. <li><a href="/">August 1995</a> How to proceed with executing a security audit. <li><a href="/">September 1995</a> Developing a security plan. <li><a href="/">October 1995</a> The tools you need to check and correct. <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> Is the fox in your hen house? How to detect intruders. <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> Firewall technologies and methods. <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> An informal guide to today's most popular firewalls. <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> A tiger team can save you time and money, and improve your responses. <li><a href="/">March 1996</a> What security bugs can affect you? And how can your stamp them out? <li><a href="/">April 1996</a> Web server wiles, Part 1 <li><a href="/">May 1996</a> Web server wiles, Part 2 <li><a href="/">June 1996</a> SANS Unix security conference <li><a href="/">July 1996</a> The SeOS security blanket <li><a href="/">August 1996</a> Controlling ACLs <li><a href="/">September 1996</a> NIS+: What's in a Name (Service)? <li><a href="/">October 1996</a> NIS+ part 2: Not your father's name service <li><a href="/"> Novemeber 1996</a> The Solaris Security FAQ <li><a href="/">December 1996</a> Firing up those firewalls <li><a href="/">January 1997</a> Extinguishing firewall hyperbole, part 2 <li><a href="/">Feburary 1997</a> Are insecurity woes keeping your network administrator up at night? <li><a href="/">March 1997</a> Practicing what I preach: How I set up a secure e-commerce site <li><a href="/">April 1997</a> Trials and tribulations of building an e-commerce server <li><a href="/">May 1997</a> On the road again -- SANS '97 (advice on countering espionage and on Web server security) <li><a href="/">June 1997</a> Avoid firewall pitfalls - how to stay clear of common firewall mistakes <li><a href="/">July 1997</a> How to detect a break-in <li><a href="/">August 1997</a> <em>Web Security & Commerce</em>: Make room on your shelves for this one <li><a href="/">October 1997</a> Are you certifiable? <li><a href="/">November 1997</a> Should Sun be your security manager? <li><a href="/">December 1997</a> Solaris 2.6 looks to cure the ol' security blues <li><a href="/">January 1998</a> A conference a day keeps the diet at bay: a report on the LISA, Network Security, and SNAC conferences <li><a href="/">February 1998</a> Enter the secure shell <li><a href="/">March 1998</a> More on mastering the secure shell <li><a href="/">April 1998</a> Designing secure software <li><a href="/">May 1998</a> Securing your Web server with a "padded cell" environment, part 1 <li><a href="/">June 1998</a> Web server wiles '98, part 2 <li><a href="/">July 1998</a> Report from SANS '98 <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> The Unix Secure Programming FAQ <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> Me and SHADOW <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> Security book review: the good, the bad, and...the worst <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> So long, and thanks for all the bugs <p> <strong><a name="wizards">Wizard's Guide to Security</a> by Carole Fennelly</strong><br> <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Creating a basic padded cell <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> Audits from Hell <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> Who ya gonna call? <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Setting up sendmail on a firewall, Part 1 <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Setting up sendmail on a firewall, Part 2 <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> Setting up sendmail on a firewall, Part 3 <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> The human side of computer security <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> Summertime potluck <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Building your firewall, Part 1 <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Building your firewall, Part 2 <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> Building your firewall, Part 3 <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> Making a list <li><a href="/">January 2000</a> Who gets your trust? <li><a href="/">February 2000</a> Tripwire: The next generation of security tools <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> Idiots in the News <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> Hacker's toolchest <li><a href="/">July 2000</a> Forensics <p> <strong><a name="sysadmin">SysAdmin</a> by Hal Stern</strong><br> <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> <li><a href="/">July 1995</a> A system administrators introduction to SCCS and its wonders. <li><a href="/">August 1995</a> Adobe PostScript can be your friend. Here's how. <li><a href="/">September 1995</a> The Unix filesystem. <li><a href="/">October 1995</a> Understanding and using <code>errno</code>. <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> A TCP/IP primer. <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> Hardening a Unix computer for Internet use. <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> Curing remote-access ailments with <em>ssh</em>. <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> Securing your data and e-mail with PGP. <li><a href="/">March 1996</a> The legal liabilities of sysadmins <li><a href="/">April 1996</a> Time bombs (maintaining accurate time on networked computers) <li><a href="/">May 1996</a> The Unix automounter <li><a href="/">June 1996</a> Advanced automounter secrets <li><a href="/">July 1996</a> An automounter and NFS potpourri <li><a href="/">August 1996</a> Caches, thrashes, and smashes <li><a href="/">September 1996</a> Sysadmin stew: My summer vacation (PGP, sysadmin tools, and Network Computers) <li><a href="/">October 1996</a> The executive file fandango <li><a href="/">December 1996</a> Understanding device numbers and mapping in Solaris <li><a href="/">March 1997</a> How can you make the network <em>yente</em> work for you <li><a href="/">May 1997</a> ARP networking tricks <p> <strong><a name="supersys">Pete's Super Systems</a> by Peter Baer Galvin</strong><br> <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Data depots -- Managing data storage <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> A patch-work column, Part 1 <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> A patch-work column, Part 2 <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> The power of /proc <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Solaris 7: Is this OS for you? <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> Spreading the wealth <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> The return of the cluster <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> How to construct your cluster configuration, Part 2: Plugging in</a> <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Stop your fire-fighting <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Stop your fire-fighting, Part 2 <li> <a href="/">November 1999</a> Room to grow: 'Debugging' Solaris <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> Room to grow: 'Debugging' Solaris <li><a href="/">January 2000</a> A report from LISA <li><a href="/">February 2000</a> The case of the unhappy host <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> Reliability without the cluster <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> Survey says: Solaris 8 is a winner <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Playing catch-up <li><a href="/">July 2000</a> USENIX does it again <p> <strong><a name="connectivity">Connectivity</a> by Rawn Shah</strong> <br> <li><a href="/">July 1995</a> Winsock 2.0. <li><a href="/">August 1995</a> E-mail jargon and the future of electronic messaging. <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> Networking in Windows 95. <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> Networking with Windows 95, part 2. <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> Emulation: The world in a single box. <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> Making sense of OLE, PDO, OpenDoc, and related technologies. <li><a href="/">March 1996</a> Getting started with Windows remote connectivity. <li><a href="/">April 1996</a> Will we still buy PCs in 1998? Part 1 <li><a href="/">May 1996</a> Will we still buy PCs in 1998? Part 2 <li><a href="/">July 1996</a> What the intranet really means <li><a href="/">August 1996</a> What WebNFS means to you <li><a href="/">September 1996</a> The Common Internet File System <li><a href="/">October 1996</a> Life after DNS <li><a href="/">November 1996</a> The emergence of WBEM and JMAPI <li><a href="/">December 1996</a> HDS' @workStation network computer <li><a href="/">January 1997</a> Accessing Windows apps from your Unix workstation or X-terminal is now easier than you think <li><a href="/">February 1997</a> Closing on Broadway: Can the final X11 spec survive the Internet and NCs? <li><a href="/">March 1997</a> Will the push -- not pull -- of Internet information dramatically alter our Web interactions? <li><a href="/">April 1997</a> Unraveling asynchronous transfer mode <li><a href="/">May 1997</a> Unraveling asynchronous transfer mode, part 2 <li><a href="/">June 1997</a> Unraveling asynchronous transfer mode, part three <li><a href="/">July 1997</a> Laying out the virtual network <li><a href="/">August 1997</a> Understanding ATM networking and network layer switching, part 1 <li><a href="/">September 1997</a> Understanding ATM networking and network layer switching, part 2 <li><a href="/">October 1997</a> The rise of Gigabit Ethernet <li><a href="/">November 1997</a> Communications technologies -- a peek at the next generation <li><a href="/">December 1997</a> More on the new communications technologies: ISDN <li><a href="/">January 1998</a> More emerging network technologies: Digital subscriber line <li><a href="/">February 1998</a> DSL -- in depth <li><a href="/">March 1998</a> Cable network ins and outs <li><a href="/">April 1998</a> Wireless services: A freedom from location <li><a href="/">May 1998</a> IEEE 802.11: Wireless LANs finally get standardized <li><a href="/">June 1998</a> Satellite data communications -- The space race is on <li><a href="/">July 1998</a> Unix in sheep's clothing <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> What exactly is a cluster, anyway? <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> The evolution of storage clustering <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> Clustering part three: On the node <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> Network balancing act <li><a href="/">December 1998</a> Microsoft steps further into NT-Unix integration <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Building a reliable NT server, Part 1 <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> Building a reliable NT server, Part 2 <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> Building a reliable NT server, Part 3 <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Building a reliable NT server, Part 4 <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Building a reliable NT server, Part 5 <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> What is RAID? <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> Storage beyond RAID <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> Web routing provides Net traffic relief <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Installing DSL in your home office <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Athlon rules! <li> <a href="/">November 1999</a> Here comes the Sun <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> (En)lighten your briefcase with an eBook <li><a href="/">January 2000</a> Wireless Access Protocol set to take over <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> DSML is the glue for future directories <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> Are storage service providers the answer to the high cost of storing files? <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> Satellite Internet service <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> New protocol makes Web design easier <li><a href="/">July 2000</a> Bar coding the Web, bar coding ourselves <p> <strong><a name="unix101">Unix 101</a> by Mo Budlong</strong><br> <li><a href="/">February 1997</a> Grasping the vi editor <li><a href="/">March 1997</a> Grasping more of the vi editor <li><a href="/">April 1997</a> Processing files with awk <li><a href="/">May 1997</a> Processing files with awk, part 2 <li><a href="/">June 1997</a> Using find to locate files <li><a href="/">July 1997</a> Shell programming and simple menus -- part 1 <li><a href="/">August 1997</a> Shell programming and simple menus -- part 2 <li><a href="/">September 1997</a> Quick lessons on shell programming <li><a href="/">October 1997</a> Search and replace with <em>vi</em> -- part 1 <li><a href="/">November 1997</a> Search and replace with vi -- part 2 <li><a href="/">December 1997</a> A simple method of logging <li><a href="/">January 1998</a> Using history and command line editing <li><a href="/">February 1998</a> Command line psychology 101 <li><a href="/">March 1998</a> Compressing files in Unix <li><a href="/">April 1998</a> Sending signals <li><a href="/">May 1998</a> A look at the tail and date utilities <li><a href="/">June 1998</a> Small fry Unix commands can get the job done, part 2 <li><a href="/">July 1998</a> Too small to keep, too big to throw back <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> Four fun Unix commands <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> ls: Little big man <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> Whatcha' gonna make <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> Date arithmetic -- Part 1 <li><a href="/">December 1998</a> Date arithmetic, Part 2 <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Date arithmetic, Part 3 <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> Subtracting dates <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> Using bc, Part 1 <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Using bc, Part 2 <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Getting started with Perl, Part 1 <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> Getting started with Perl, Part 2 <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> Go to the end of the line <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Tips on good shell programming practices <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Unix command line 101: How much do you know? <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> Grep this <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> Hands-off editing with sed, Part 1 <li><a href="/">February 2000</a> Hands-off editing with sed, Part 2 <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> Purging the process <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> Purging the process, Part 2 <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> Understanding Unix shells and environment variables <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Understanding Unix shells and environment variables, Part 2 <li><a href="/">July 2000</a> The language of shells <p> <strong><a name="career">Career Advisor</a> by Edgar Saadi</strong><br> <li><a href="/">July 1995</a> Answers to questions from readers. <li><a href="/">August 1995</a> The Web helps find jobs and creates jobs. <li><a href="/">September 1995</a> Moving your career from hardware to software. <li><a href="/">October 1995</a> Writing a good CV. <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> NR or not NT? <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> Tips for changing computer specialties in mid-stream. <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> Security a booming career? You bet! <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> Should I go with Java? <li><a href="/">March 1996</a> When should I jump ship? <li><a href="/">April 1996</a> Start-up fever <li><a href="/">May 1996</a> Is Java a career? <li><a href="/">June 1996</a> Web-related careers booming <li><a href="/">July 1996</a> Dealing with non-technical headhunters <li><a href="/">August 1996</a> Is there high-tech life in the Midwest? <li><a href="/">September 1996</a> How to negotiate your salary and benefits <li><a href="/">October 1996</a> Reader roundup <li><a href="/">November 1996</a> Job interview research <li><a href="/">December 1996</a> L.A.'s the place for IT jobs <li><a href="/">January 1997</a> How to quit your job gracefully <li><a href="/">February 1997</a> Managing those ever-tricky money matters <li><a href="/">March 1997</a> Told you were overqualified? Winning interviews are a learned skill <li><a href="/">April 1997</a> How to handle multiple job offers <li><a href="/">May 1997</a> Managing your career in software development <li><a href="/">June 1997</a> Sysadmins: Sharpen your people skills! <li><a href="/">July 1997</a> Thankless jobs? <li><a href="/">August 1997</a> Managing those ever-tricky money matters, continued <li><a href="/">September 1997</a> Should you switch jobs? <li><a href="/">October 1997</a> Should I work abroad? How important is a degree vs. work experience? <li><a href="/">November 1997</a> Advancement, burnout, and the love of money <li><a href="/">December 1997</a> Major career moves, bad career moves, contracting, and certification <li><a href="/">January 1998</a> Employment catch-22, systems administration nirvana, and money + happiness <li><a href="/">February 1998</a> Staying hot, a quality assurance quandary, and a no brainer career move <li><a href="/">March 1998</a> Regretting your job change, moving beyond your job title, and avoiding the ruins of wishful thinking <li><a href="/">April 1998</a> The market is booming for Unix contractors and consultants -- will it stay that way? <li><a href="/">May 1998</a> What to do when your boss keeps you waiting for a raise <li><a href="/">June 1998</a> Stock options -- How much do you deserve? <li><a href="/">July 1998</a> Contracting: Is it a chance to learn or a potential for skill-set atrophy? <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> Education and experience -- too much, not enough? <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> Silicon Valley and New York City: Gold in them thar hills <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> Relocation -- What should I expect? <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> Back to the future? <li><a href="/">December 1998</a> Sysadmin dilemmas <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Should I stay or should I go? <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> Just starting out? <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> Sorting out the system administration career path <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Stock options: Is there a magic number? <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Telecom, realtime embedded systems -- IT's hot ticket <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> On-the-job training offers reader a golden opportunity <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> Database administration vs. security <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> Does my salary stack up? <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Transitions: Relocation and internal moves <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Finding your place <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> Fighting fires <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> Go with a winner <li><a href="/">January 2000</a> Past your prime? <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> To start-up or not to start-up? <p> <strong><a name="regex">Regular Expressions</a> by Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz</strong><br> <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> 1998: Breakthrough year for scripting <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> Plenty of headroom left for Perl <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> The safety of scripting <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> What's going on with Guile? <li><a href="/">December 1998</a> Python: Batteries included. And the December 15 installment: Why Eiffel? (and Python's dark side) <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> A look at scripting performance and project feasibility. And the January 15 installment: Tim O'Reilly talks about "infoware" <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> New choices for scripting. February 15 installment: Scripting's sore spots <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> Dylan's appeal. March 15 installment: Expectations for Regular Expressions <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Scripting with C. April 15 installment: Lightweight persistence <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Scripting across frontiers. May 15 installment: 'MetaThings': Script persistence. <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> PHP and JavaScript make easy work of hard problems. June 15 installment: Unraveling threads <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> Serious programming doesn't have to be difficult. July 15 installment: Putting different computer languages together for better results <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> Cinderella languages. August 15 installment: IBM takes lead in database competition <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Xanadu from the wilderness <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> CVS in the scripting landscape <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> Programming events: An event-based programming tutorial <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> Programming in the comfort zone <li><a href="/">January 2000</a> Can your favorite scripting language take it to the next level? <li><a href="/">February 2000</a> Pushing the Web <li><a href="/">February 2000</a> Getting control of push <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> Scripting languages in the marketplace <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> Balanced programming choices are key in developing redundancy <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> The ongoing proliferation of scripting languages <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> The good, the bad, and the beautiful world of scripting <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> Unicode common to latest scripting language versions <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> Phil Thompson puts Python and Qt together <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Individualize your apps <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Making the most of the option database <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Successful evaluations <p> <strong><a name="regex">Regular Expressions</a> by Cameron Laird and Allen Flick </strong><br> <li><a href="/">July 2000</a> Option database options <p> <strong><a name="silicon">Silicon Carny</a> by Rich Morin</strong><br> <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Welcome to the midway! <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> A bazaar fable <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> A lazy afternoon <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Serious FTP <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> Why I run FreeBSD <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> Mac OS X -- Raising the bar <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> A busy computer is a happy computer <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> Smart data <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> Crème de la crème <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Wanted: Centralized open source support <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> QoS and the GigaPoPs, live! <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> The essential guide to open source <li><a href="/">January 2000</a> Read an email, lose your privacy <li><a href="/">February 2000</a> A Look at FireWire and USB <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> The Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> XML: The right tool for odd jobs <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> Wireless WANs -- whoopee! <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Cutting the wires, Part 2 <li><a href="/">July 2000</a> Useful lies <p> <strong><a name="cs">Client/Server</a> by Bill Rosenblatt</strong><br> <li><a href="/">July 1995</a> Bill peels back Microsoft's marketing hype concerning its SQL. <li><a href="/">August 1995</a> Document management is becoming easier. <li><a href="/">September 1995</a> Text search and why it's important. <li><a href="/">October 1995</a> The ODMA draft standard. <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> Documentum: Flagship of enterprise document management. <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> Documents and client/server programs meet on the Web. <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> Tools to meld the Web & relational databases part 1. <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> Tools to meld the Web & relational databases part 2. <li><a href="/">March 1996</a> Sybase's Web tools strategy. <li><a href="/">April 1996</a> Commercial Web tools: The stampede begins <li><a href="/">May 1996</a> More Web tools. <li><a href="/">June 1996</a> Informix leaps to objects <li><a href="/">July 1996</a> Borland takes the high road. <li><a href="/">August 1996</a> Days of reckoning for relational databases <li><a href="/">September 1996</a> Easing large Web site woes with a Wallop <li><a href="/">October 1996</a> A revolutionary platform -- intranet applications require new kinds of development environments <li><a href="/">November 1996</a> Intranet application development, part 2 <li><a href="/">December 1996</a> The intranet development paradigm, part III <p> <strong><a name="bookshelf">Bill's Bookshelf</a> by Bill Rosenblatt</strong><br> <li><a href="/">January 1997</a> Intel's `paranoid' Andy Grove offers insights on helping your company survive the Web, Java, and more; Andy Grove's <em>Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company and Career</em> <li><a href="/">February 1997</a> <em>Jamming</em> your business to foster creativity; John Kao's <em>Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity</em> <li><a href="/">March 1997</a> Building loyal customer relations -- that last; Don Peppers and Martha Roger's <em>The One to One Future: Building Relationships One Customer at a Time</em> <li><a href="/">April 1997</a> Virtual communities: the benchmark for success online? John Hagel and Arthur Armstrong's <em>Net Gain: Expanding Markets through Virtual Communities</em> <li><a href="/">May 1997</a> How is networked digital technology changing the economy? Don Tapscott's <em>The Digital Economy: Promises and Perils in the Age of Networked Intelligence</em> <li><a href="/">June 1997</a> Po Bronson's bitter cup of Java. <em>Wired</em> alumnus sets his sights on Silicon Valley with his retelling of the Java story. <em>The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest</em> <li><a href="/">July 1997</a> <em>Death March</em> author Ed Yourdon admits he was wrong <li><a href="/">August 1997</a> Digital aesthetics: artistic movement or oxymoron? Steven Holtzman's <em>Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace</em> <li><a href="/">September 1997</a> Does Microsoft deserve its success? Randall Stross's <em>The Microsoft Way</em> <li><a href="/">October 1997</a> Can 33 "cyber elite" say anything important about the Information Age? John Brockman's <em>Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite</em> <li><a href="/">November 1997</a> How has the Internet changed the rules on business and economics? T.G. Lewis's <em>The Friction-Free Economy: Marketing Strategies for a Wired World</em> <li><a href="/">December 1997</a> Why did we build cyberspace like that? Mark Stefik's <em>Internet Dreams, Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors</em> <li><a href="/">January 1998</a> Esther Dyson's "just society" online <em>Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age</em> <li><a href="/">February 1998</a> Technology (and ego) gone too far: Ellen Ullman's <em>Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents</em> and Michael Bloomberg's <em>Bloomberg by Bloomberg</em> <li><a href="/">March 1998</a> The secrets of Intel: Tim Jackson's <em>Inside Intel</em> and Jim Carlton's <em>Apple: The Inside Story</em> <li><a href="/">April 1998</a> Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau's <em>Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption</em> <li><a href="/">May 1998</a> Michael Dertouzos tells us <em>What will be</em> <li><a href="/">June 1998</a> Bruce Schneier's <em>Applied Cryptography</em> <li><a href="/">July 1998</a> Edstrom and Eller's <em>Barbarians Led by Bill Gates</em> and Quittner and Slatalla's <em>Speeding the Net</em> <li><a href="/">August 1998</a> Downes and Mui's <em>Unleashing the Killer App</em> <li><a href="/">September 1998</a> Michael Wolff's <em>Burn Rate</em> <li><a href="/">October 1998</a> Geoffrey Moore's <em>The Gorilla Game</em> <li><a href="/">November 1998</a> Don Tapscott's <em>Blueprint to the Digital Economy</em> <li><a href="/">December 1998</a> L. J. Davis's <em>The Billionaire Shell Game</em> <li><a href="/">January 1999</a> Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp's <em>Getting it Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge</em> <li><a href="/">February 1999</a> Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian's <em>Information Rules</em> <li><a href="/">March 1999</a> Ray Kurzweil's <em>The Age of Spiritual Machines</em> <li><a href="/">April 1999</a> Explosions in the Valley (Karen Southwick's <em>Silicon Gold Rush</em> and Edward and Jennifer Yourdon's <em>Time Bomb 2000</em>) <li><a href="/">May 1999</a> The world according to Gates (Bill Gates's <em>Business @ the Speed of Thought</em>) <li><a href="/">June 1999</a> The 'other' billionaire (Mike Wilson's <em>The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation</em>) <li><a href="/">July 1999</a> Infomediaries help consumers rule online (John Hagel and Marc Singer's <em>Net Worth: Shaping Markets When Customers Make the Rules</em>) <li><a href="/">August 1999</a> Summer reading (Jim Clark's <em>Netscape Time</em> and Gary Rivlin's <em>The Plot to Get Bill Gates</em>) <li><a href="/">September 1999</a> A million stories in the naked Valley (Po Bronson's <em>The Nudist on the Late Shift and Other True Tales of Silicon Valley</em>) <li><a href="/">October 1999</a> Big Blue is back (<em>Saving Big Blue: Leadership Lessons and Turnaround Tactics of IBM's Lou Gerstner</em>, Robert Slater; <em>IBM Redux: Lou Gerstner and the Business Turnaround of the Decade</em>, Doug Garr; <em>Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM</em>, Daniel Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen) <li><a href="/">November 1999</a> A clever pawn in the Internet game <li><a href="/">December 1999</a> Reinventing the Web <li><a href="/">January 2000</a> Content: The king deposed <li><a href="/">February 2000</a> Lewis can't find Clark <li><a href="/">March 2000</a> Net casualties <li><a href="/">April 2000</a> Know the code <li><a href="/">May 2000</a> The truth about open source software <li><a href="/">June 2000</a> Life inside a Silicon Valley venture capital firm <li><a href="/">July 2000</a> More venture guys <p> <strong><a name="pres">From the president</a> by Michael McCarthy</strong><br> <li><a hrf="/sunworldonline/swol-07-1997/swol-07-editorial.html">July 1997</a> SunWorld's second anniversary: Does that make us 14 in Web years? <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> The publisher and editor square-off over Sun buying Apple <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> Java and the Internet PC <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> Sign up for our Reader Advisory Board! <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> Take our site -- please! <li><a href="/">October 1995</a> Advertising, ignorance, and the Flashback mystery man. <p> <strong><a name="javadev">Java Developer</a></strong><br> <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> Welcome to Java Developer <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> Interview with Java-team members Arthur van Hoff and Kim Polese <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> Laying out buttons and other GUI components can be easy <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> Get ready for <em>JavaWorld</em> magazine <p> <strong><a name="realworld">Real World Perspectives</a> by Frank Henderson and Dave Koehler</strong><br> <li><a href="/">February 1997</a> Learn what is <em>really</em> bogging down your network <li><a href="/">April 1997</a> Cut workplace frustration -- take these steps to build an efficient help desk <li><a href="/">June 1997</a> Support your TCP/IP global enterprise properly <li><a href="/">August 1997</a> Manage your global network effectively <li><a href="/">October 1997</a> Monitoring system and network performance metrics <li><a href="/">December 1997</a> VLANs: A reexamination <p> <strong><a name="tools">Software Tools</a> by Chuck Musciano</strong><br> <li><a href="/">August 1995</a> Software methodologies. <li><a href="/">September 1995</a> Selecting a development methodology. <li><a href="/">October 1995</a> vi vs. Emacs <p> <strong><a name="unix">Unix Enterprise</a> by Harris Kern & Randy Johnson</strong><br> <li><a href="/">July 1995</a> Extending the "glass house" over a network. <li><a href="/">August 1995</a> Evangelizing change -- or who will be your agent of change? <li><a href="/">September 1995</a> Supporting distributed databases. <li><a href="/">October 1995</a> Why charge-backs are necessary. <li><a href="/">November 1995</a> Performance monitoring and capacity planning. <li><a href="/">December 1995</a> A six-step program to network computing success. <li><a href="/">January 1996</a> Organizing IT for success. <li><a href="/">February 1996</a> Production-quality enterprise networks <li><a href="/">March 1996</a> Setting your organization's technology standards, policies, and disciplines. <li><a href="/">April 1996</a> Harris and Randy's First Annual Survey <li><a href="/">May 1996</a> Simply discipline <li><a href="/">June 1996</a> Sizing it like a mainframe <li><a href="/">July 1996</a> Get your act together <li><a href="/">August 1996</a> The IT buddy movie <li><a href="/">September 1996</a> What about my DBAs? <li><a href="/">October 1996</a> Client Server Production Acceptance <li><a href="/">November 1996</a> Ten IT commandments <li><a href="/">December 1996</a> Know your users, keep them as customers <li><a href="/">January 1997</a> 6 steps to improving communication between IT support groups <li><a href="/">February 1997</a> What `lights-out' really means: what you need, what you want, and what you can have <li><a href="/">March 1997</a> Get users, IT, and management working together more effectively <li><a href="/">April 1997</a> Metrics -- How to <em>really</em> manage your enterprise <li><a href="/">May 1997</a> The New Enterprise IT Services Model -- What are the building blocks? 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