Mouses: You've Come a Long Way Mickey

Editor's Note

Mouses: You've Come a Long Way Mickey

My first mouse, officially referred to as a "pointing device" if I recall, was a decidedly non-ergonomic one-button brick that plugged into a TRS-80 Color Computer.

Statistical Debugging and the Cooperative Bug Isolation Project

Ben Liblit, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's department of computer sciences, has put together the Cooperative Bug Isolation Project, a project he refers to as "statistical debugging" because it finds bugs in programs via automated statistical analysis instead of laborious manual inspection.

In the News

Microsoft Pulls PC-to-PC Sync From Vista
Microsoft is pulling from Windows Vista PC-to-PC Sync, a P2P-based technology for keeping files up-to-date on multiple machines.

Embedded Linux Developer Tool Updated
Embedded Linux developer service provider TimeSys announced the latest a "major" standards-based Eclipse and CDT upgrade to the company's Linux Developer Suite.

IE And Firefox Sport New Zero-day Flaw
Some security researchers say all versions of the Microsoft and Mozilla browsers could be used to harvest data through a JavaScript key-filtering vulnerability.

Microsoft Unveils Upgrade of BizTalk Server
The upgrade of BizTalk Server 2006 includes native support for commonly used electronic communications in supply chains and new services for managing radio frequency identification systems.

Dr. Dobb's Podcasts

Impact Analysis & Dependency Mapping
Guy Hoffman explains what impact analysis and dependency mapping are, and why they're critical to software development. (MP3, 5:23 mins.)

Lifecycle Management for Database Developers
Matt Nunn discusses Microsoft's recently announced Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. (MP3, 3:30 mins.)

Learning and Using Ruby on Rails
Geoffrey Grosenbach shares some of his favorite online resources for getting up-to-speed on Ruby on Rails. (MP3, 14:13 mins.)

New Features

Enterprise Service Bus: Part 2
While the SOA software industry clearly has room for many participants, at the enterprise-wide software grade, the usual suspects dominate

ASP.NET 2.0's Membership API
Forms authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 benefited from the introduction of the membership API, which provides a set of classes to let you manage users and roles

Enterprise Service Bus: Part 1
The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) "specification" is, in many ways, wide open

Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering
Generative and transformational techniques have evolved from being very specific code generators to full fledged generic tools

The Data Domain, or Folie à Deux
The sharing of delusional ideas by two people who are closely associated. And no cousin Corbett?

Designing Systems, Designing Games
Designing systems and designing games are the focus of this month's books.

Developer's Notebook
New development products and new releases of existing ones.

New & Noteworthy
The latest news and developments.

Developer Diaries
From startups to SlickEdit, we're on the road this month.

Web 2.0: Stuck on a Name or Hooked on Value?
When it comes to Web 2.0, Tim wonders if we're stuck on a name or hooked on value?

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