""The X Resource is a quarterly working journal for X programmers that provides practical, timely information about the programming, administration, and use of the X Window System. It is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. The journal is the Official Publisher of the X Consortium Technical Conference Proceedings, which form the January issue. The articles for Issue 9:8TH ANNUAL X TECHNICAL CONFERENCE""Use Cases, Objects, and X Applications: Improving Ergonomics and Usability Through User Centered Design,"" by Steven C. Bilow ""Zero-Defect Widgets: A formal approach to testing Xt-based toolkits,"" by Satyajit Nath""Traitifying Motif,"" by Daniel Dardailler""Extending Xt To Support CORBA-based Embedding,"" by Charles A. Price""Redisplay in Fresco,"" by Mark Linton ""PEX 6.0-Not!"" (Abstract only) by Jeff Stevenson""X Server Multi-rendering for OpenGL and PEX,"" by Mark J. Kilgard, Simon Hui, Allen A. Leinwand, and Dave Spalding""The Smart Frame Buffer Goes Hollywood: 3D and TV"" (Abstract only) by Joel McCormack, Bob McNamara, and Chris Gianos""Xvan: A True Multiple Screen X Server,"" by Peter C. Jones""Experience with XIE: Server and Client, Past, Present and Future,"" by Ben Fahy, Ph.D.""Design and Implementation of LBX: An Experiment Based Standard,"" by Keith Packard""Overview of the X Keyboard Extension,"" by Erik Fortune""Mission Critical: The Selling of X"" (Abstract only) by Peter Shaw""X Consortium, Inc.: A Status Report"" (Abstract only) by Bob Scheifler""Inter-Client Communication in X11R6 and Beyond,"" by Stuart W. Marks""XSMP: The New Session Management Protocol,"" by Mike Wexler""The POSC/Halliburton Shared Colormap System: Distributed Management of XColor Resources,"" by F. Beachley Main""NetAudio: Make Your Applications Sing (As Well As Dance),"" by Jim Fulton, and Greg Renda""X11 in Virtual Environments: Combining Computer Interaction,"" by Phillip C. Dykstra""Xmc and Xy-Scalable Window Sharing and Mobility, or, From X Protocol Multiplexing to X Protocol Multicasting,"" by Carsten Bormann and Gero Hoffmann""New X Font Technology for X11R6,"" by Nathan Meyers""Extending X For Recording,"" by Martha Zimet""Kerberos Authentication of X Connections,"" by Tom Yu
Adrian Nye is the author or editor of several volumes in the X Window System Series from O'Reilly & Associates. Adrian has worked as a programmer writing educational software in C and as a mechanical engineer designing offshore oil spill cleanup equipment. He has interests in the environment and the impact of people and technology. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.
