Newsletter Archive

ZeroC published 28 issues of Connections containing a wealth of information on topics that did not fit neatly into the Ice Manual. Although we no longer publish the newsletter, we continue to enhance the FAQ list and publish in-depth technical articles and white papers.

Issue 28, April/May 2008

  • Editorial: Terms of Service
  • New Features and Changes in Ice 3.3
  • Background I/O
  • Highly Available IceStorm

Issue 27, November/December 2007

  • Editorial: From the Laboratory
  • Implementation and Interface: The ControlServer Part 2
  • Every Cloud has a Silver Lining

Issue 26, September/October 2007

  • Editorial: Ice—What's the Point?
  • Implementation and Interface: The ControlServer
  • PayPal: E-Commerce without Ice
  • EBuddy: E-Commerce with Ice (Sample Code)

Issue 25, July 2007

  • Editorial: Bridge to Nowhere?
  • Beyond Freeze—Persistence with Ice (Part 2: Advanced Topics)
  • Who's Counting?

Issue 24, June 2007

  • Editorial: Diversity
  • Beyond Freeze—Persistence with Ice (Part 1: The Basics)
  • Connection Management in Ice

Issue 23, May 2007

  • Editorial: Stable!
  • Proxies
  • Master-Slave Replication with Ice (Sample Code)

Issue 22, April 2007

  • Editorial: Good Programmers are Rare
  • An Autonomous Vehicle Using Ice and Orca
  • Teach Yourself Glacier2 in 10 Minutes

Issue 21, February 2007

  • Editorial: Ice 3.2 Beta
  • What's New in Ice 3.2?
  • IceGrid Replication
  • IceStorm 3.2

Issue 20, December 2006

  • Editorial: 80 Percent?
  • Ice for Ruby
  • Optimizing Performance of File Transfers (Sample Code)

Issue 19, November 2006

  • Editorial: Leaky Abstractions
  • Custom Sessions and IceGrid (Sample Code)
  • Teach Yourself IceGrid in 10 Minutes

Issue 18, November 2006

  • Editorial: Abstraction Layers
  • Session Management with IceGrid (Sample Code)
  • Write Once, Read Everywhere (Sample Code)

Issue 17, September 2006

  • Editorial: Tower of Babel
  • IceGrid Security (Sample Code)

Issue 16, August 2006

  • Editorial: Plans for the Future
  • Ice and Character Encoding (Sample Code)
  • IceGrid Sessions and Resource Allocation (Sample Code)

Issue 15, July 2006

  • Editorial: The Emperor has No Clothes
  • New Features in Ice 3.1
  • API Changes in Ice 3.1
  • Integrating Ice with a GUI: Part IV (Sample Code)

Issue 14, May 2006

Issue 13, April 2006

  • Editorial: Community Spirit
  • Integrating Ice with a GUI: Part II (Sample Code)
  • Ice-E 1.1 : What's New? (Sample Code)

Issue 12, March 2006

  • Editorial: The History of Ice
  • Dynamic Ice, Part 2: Streaming (Sample Code)
  • Integrating Ice with a GUI (Sample Code)

Issue 11, February 2006

  • Editorial: The Nice Thing about Standards...
  • Dynamic Ice, Part 1: Efficient Request Forwarding (Sample Code)
  • Freeze Indexes (Sample Code)

Issue 10, January 2006

  • Editorial: Happy New Year!
  • Using Ice in Windows Services
  • Freeze Maps (Sample Code)

Issue 9, December 2005

  • Editorial: Exciting Times
  • Grid Computing with IceGrid
  • Migrating from IcePack to IceGrid (Sample Code)

Issue 8, November 2005

  • Editorial: At a Loose End...
  • FreezeScript (Sample Code)
  • Can a Leopard Change its Spots?

Issue 7, October 2005

  • Editorial: Choices...
  • A Persistent Chat Server (Sample Code)
  • Protocol Compression: Friend or Foe (Sample Code)

Issue 6, September 2005

Issue 5, August 2005

  • Editorial: What is RPC?
  • Introduction to IcePack (Sample Code)
  • Ice-E: A Preview
  • Avoiding Deadlocks, Part II

Issue 4, July 2005

  • Editorial: Why Smart People Defend Bad Standards
  • Asynchronous Programming (Sample Code)
  • Avoiding Deadlocks, Part I

Issue 3, June 2005

  • Editorial: Invent It or Use It?
  • An Introduction to IceStorm (Sample Code)
  • Interpreted Ice: Distributed Application Development on Steroids (Sample Code)
  • The Grim Reaper: Making Objects Meet Their Maker

Issue 2, May 2005

  • Editorial: Welcome to Connections!
  • To Slice or Not to Slice…
  • Advanced Use of Glacier2 (Sample Code)
  • Thread-Safe Marshaling
  • Ice and Grid Computing

Issue 1, April 2005

  • Editorial: Welcome to Connections!
  • Session Management with Glacier2 (Sample Code)
  • Ice and Python—A Match Made in Heaven? (Sample Code)
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