EXE articles from July 2000

EXE archives from July 2000

Untimely script.(Technology Information)(Editorial)
July 1, 2000... Scripting languages. Hmmm. Don't you just loathe them? Please don't get me wrong here, I am quite happy to use a script that some obliging soul has hacked out and debugged to do the job that I want. But of course such things never exist in...

If it's too hard, I can't understand it.(Comprehension Solution SET from Software Emancipation Technology)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... Developer productivity -- that old chestnut -- is addressed by Software Emancipation Technology (SET) and its Comprehension Solution SET. It's a collection of tools and services to improve the productivity of software developers by providing...

Rational Suite Version 2000.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... Rational has announced Version 2000 of the Rational Suite family of products, with the emphasis on the development of high-quality software for the Internet. This includes a simultaneous release-again, Version 2000 -- of all the 12 products...

Mapping your code.(CodeMapper from OrbiTech System Graphics)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... Designed for use with Visual C++, C++Builder and Unix-based versions of C++, CodeMapper helps document C/C++ source code. It analyses all the C/C++ files of a project and extracts all declarations to build the detailed documentation (you don't...

Internet Professional.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... TurboPower's Internet Professional is a toolkit for Delphi and C++ Builder programmers. It's a set of native VCL components for dealing with Internet protocols (SMTP, NNTP, POP3, FTP, HTTP, SNTP and ICMP). It also includes HTML-related...

VisiBroker for C++.(from Inprise)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... VisiBroker for C++ version 4.0 is Inprise's Object Request Broker for distributed enterprise applications. It provides support for Corba 2.3, including Portable Object Adapter (POA), Objects By Value (OBV), RMI over IIOP and clustering and...

CLDC.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... Based on the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) component of J2ME (formerly the KVM), SND's Micro Web Target is a development kit for embedded Internet appliances. SND's Mobile Client Starter Kit provides development support for...

Rational Software.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... To help reduce the development time of schema-based XML applications, Rational Software and Commerce One have created a UML for XML schema mapping specification. The UML profile is intended to provide developers with a systemic, graphical...

VSVIEW.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... VideoSoft's VSVIEW 7.0 is a Visual Basic printer engine. This version features an export function that lets end-users export documents to RTF and HTML formats, URL-based downloads for printing, improved document navigation, and expanded table...

By this chart I do build.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... The visual construction of platform-independent software is the goal of build-IT from inteRAD. It is a Java-based programming tool that uses flow-charting methodologies to develop the back-end logic for programs and standard form design methods...

Your code's reputation.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... NuMega's DevPartner Java Edition 2.0 is designed to help you find problems with memory use, multithreading, code performance and coverage. Essentially, all the things that can affect the reliability and performance of your Java applications....

Host and deliver.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Atomz.com, the developer of hosted applications for building websites, is expanding its presence into Europe -- it has co-located servers in the UK. Currently providing search facilities, other development services are promised. The latest...

TowerJ.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... TowerJ v3.5, the JVM from Tower Technologies, now supports Java 2. It's available for Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Tru64 Unix and Windows NT. Its `Mixed-Mode' deployment features allow applications to use both bytecode and unmodifiable native code.

JDataStore.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... Borland's JDataStore 3.5 is a 100% Pure Java RDBMS. It provides database access for the Java platform via its JDBC drivers and standard SQL. It's embedded within Inprise Application Server 4. JDataStore 3.5 licences cost [pound]70 per seat and...

XMetal.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... XMetal 2.0, SoftQuad's XML content creation system, features a new Structure view, support for more advanced XML constructs (internal subsets, parsable external entities and OASIS catalogues) and expanded customisation options. There is support...

IAP.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... The institution of Analysts and Programmers (IAP), has teamed up with Iron Mountain, a records management company that has secure media archives located across the UK, to provide an escrow service for its members and their clients. The source...

LiveMotion.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... Adobe's LiveMotion 1.0 is a Web graphics and animation tool aimed at professional Web designers and developers. With an ESP of [pound]189, features include the ability to assign interactive behaviours to individual objects, to use named labels...

There they go.(Government Activity)(Column)
July 1, 2000... Imagine Jules, shaking his head in a mixture of exasperation and bewilderment. I wrote about IR35 -- the new tax system that means that most computer contractors are forbidden from operating as a proper business -- back in August 1999. I...

LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2000... Wacko world wide web wizardry Dear Sir, Just read the Wacko world wide web wizardry in EXE (Paul Coughlin, Soapflakes, May 2000). There really is only one thing to say - HERE, HERE. What he said just needed saying, and I'm so glad...

Conjuring up COM Through scripting.(Technology Tutorial)
July 1, 2000... Once upon a time, COM was the province of the hardcore C++ wizard. Visual Basic changed that, and brought COM within the grasp of the RAD coder. But COM in script? Surely not. Actually, yes, says Neil Hewitt. Here's how. Scripting has a...

Dynamic data binding with XML.(Technology Information)(Column)
July 1, 2000... When dealing with XML data, the flexibility of dynamic binding can be essential. Dave Sussman, in the second of his series on XML development, demonstrates how to avoid prejudging the structure of data encountered. Microsoft gets a lot of...

CPAN -- Perl modules for the taking.
July 1, 2000... Peter Collinson is becoming more comfortable with the use of Pen scripting modules in his own code. I have said in the past that I've been avoiding the use of other people's code in my Pen programs. I will agree that this is perhaps a...

Really unique?(Technology Tutorial)
July 1, 2000... In what is his 100th EXE column, Francis Glassborow returns to the STL unique() function. If you remember, last month I wrote about a number of STL algorithms whose names were potentially misleading in that they actually did far more than...

Are you being served?
July 1, 2000... Philip Brown employs the Factory pattern for menu operations. This month we take a short break from the rigours of implementing business objects to deal with something that almost every application requires: a menu. Not a menu in the sense...

Java chat clients for PalmOS.
July 1, 2000... Last month Jonathan Knudsen introduced Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME) and its current incarnation on PalmOS. This month he presents source code for a network chat client that runs on the J2ME implementation currently available from Sun. Sun...

DHTML Designer.(Visual Basic 6.0)(Product Information)
July 1, 2000... Jon Perkins looks at the Visual Basic 6 DHTML Designer. Last year I wrote a couple of columns concerning WebClasses, which was one of two new technologies within Visual Basic 6 concerned with the development of Internet applications (see...

Martin Tasker's Professional Symbian programming.(Product Information)
July 1, 2000... General-purpose commercial operating systems for PDAs and smart phones are rather limited in number Palm OS, Windows CE and EPOC. The third one forms Symbian's core technology, as used by the Psion Revo or Ericsson R380, amongst others, and is...

Bjarne Stroustrup.(Company Operations)
July 1, 2000... Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementor of C++. An AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow, he is the head of AT&T's Large-Scale Programming Research department. He is the author of the definitive 'The C++ Programming Language, 3rd...

Verity Stob is unwell.
July 1, 2000... Verity's twin sisters, Charity and Chastity, both rang in to inform us that, unfortunately, Verity is unwell and would not be able to complete her work for this month. One said she was having back-related problems. The other said she was having...

Anchored up in Anchorage.(Editorial)
July 1, 2000... Are you a geek? Fancy going on a cruise? If so, then geekcruises.com is for you. Currently, there are four sea-based educational offerings available: a Pen Whirl, which gives you the chance to listen to the likes ofTom Christiansen and Tim Bray...

The EXE Quest Questionnaire.(Editorial)
July 1, 2000... We hope the new feature of the EXE Questionnaire has been well received. The list of those already 'questionnaired' is quite impressive (though we are saying it ourselves) and we have some more up our sleeve, but let us know of anyone you would...

Coding with Dolphins.(DolphinSearch KnowledgeBox)(Product Information)
July 1, 2000... The therapeutic value of swimming with Dolphins is widely recognised. These intelligent and ever-smiling creatures intuitively know, we are told, when and where a human swimmer is suffering. Well, Dolphins may be supplying more than...

Crossword Compiler.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2000... You're a developer. You love crosswords. Why not program your own crosswords? You'll certainly complete them in record time. Check out Crossword Compiler 5.0 for Windows from x-word. The program can generate puzzles from a list of words,...