EXE articles from June 2000

EXE archives from June 2000

Informatica feminale.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... Shouldn't there be more women working as software developers? Doesn't it matter if it seems one half of the population avoids programming? A female counter-point is surely needed in the male dominated world of IT, let alone software...

The component toolkit grows.(Protoview's ProtoView ActiveX Component Suite application development software)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... The ProtoView ActiveX Component Suite has been updated to version 8. Comprising the Data Explorer, DataTable, ScheduleX and TreeViewX products, this release continues a focus on browser-based (IE) functionality. Altogether there are 31...

CodeWarrior for Personal Java.(Metrowerks' application development software)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... There is now a CodeWarrior PersonalJava Platform Edition. With support for the PersonalJava platform and API, it supports the building of applications for 'high-end networked consumer devices' (mobile hand-held computers, set top boxes,...

Web Forms.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The XForms Data Model has been released by the W3C as a Public Working Draft. In conjunction with the XForms Requirements documents, the model is intended to lay the foundation for the next generation of Web-based forms. To accommodate an...

Digest.(BeCubed's OLETools 7.0 GUI, Intuitive Systems' Optimizeit! Professional 3.1 programming utility and Cyrano's Cyrano WebTester 4.1.1 debugging/testing software)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... BeCubed's OLETools 7.0 is a set of UI controls that includes support for tab-style interfaces, a Tree control for displaying hierarchical data, multi-column List and Combo boxes, a calendar control, multimedia controls, and masked input...

One click install, from the Web.(InstallShiled's InstallShield Professional 6.2 application installaton software)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2000... Addressing the issue of Internet-based downloads, InstallShield Professional 6.2 features the technology of 'one click install'. The one click process, from the Web, combines the download and installation of applications. The functionality of...

Rogu-e Wav-e.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... A new logo, a new tag line - E-commerce E-ssentials - and a redesigned website reflect Rogue Wave's re-branding as a developer of components for building customised e-commerce systems. C++, Java and XML e-commerce products will follow, but for...

A Qt Kylix.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Troll Tech's Qt is to be used within Kylix, Borland's forthcoming Delphi and C/C++ RAD system for Linux (as was strongly hinted in the April issue of EXE - see A layperson's guide to X politics in the article Chuck & Kylix: straight outta...

Digest.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The UK Unix User Group (UKUUG) is holding the Linux Developers' Conference 2000 in London, 7-9 July. Topics lined up include GNOME, global file systems, XFS, memory management and PowerPC Clusters and VMare. www.ukuug.org/events/linux2000/...

The sheer shear of work; Is your job stressful? You should try this one. Jules reveals all.
June 1, 2000... It's a common thing to complain about. In the pub, after work, or at home, everybody complains about the stress of their job. From deadlines, through office politics, to intransigent bosses, workplace stress is something everybody is aware of....

Jave rules.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2000... Java rules Dear Sir, [Re: Bye bye Borland (Soapflakes, EXE, March 2000)] If you think Java is dead, you haven't been checking the job markets lately. Clue: What Programming language has the highest pay of all languages in the...

Cover issues.(Letter to the Editor)
June 1, 2000... Dear Sir, I was very shocked by the advertising cover on the April issue. When I received the latest issue through the post, my first thought was how did I get on Microsoft's mailing list, and my second thought after I noticed the EXE...

Windows hooks.
June 1, 2000... Dear Sir, I had been using the Winamp title bar plug-in, described in my article Windows hooks last month, for a few weeks and decided to publish it on the Winamp website. Shortly after that a couple of people informed me that it caused...

Development Tools 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 1, 2000... If you can remember back to prehistoric times - 1998 - you might recall that EXE ran its first comprehensive survey of development tools and methodologies (Development tools '98, EXE, September). You might even recall reading it in the form of...

The many aspects of Windows 2000; Multiplying mouse buttons, a new range of keyboard function keys, installation issues, DLL/COM redirection, and layering and transparency… Dave Jewell finds himself somewhat bedazzled by the repercussions of Windows 2000.(Product Information)
June 1, 2000... In this tour of Windows 2000, I take a look at some of the programming features and changes in the new operating system that have interested me. Bear in mind that we're talking about several million lines of source code here, and I'm making...

Bug removal; adb, sdb, gdb, ddd, ups… Peter Collinson dissects the etymology of Unix debuggers.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Unix has a tradition of providing program debuggers. The earliest systems supported the necessary low-level hooks in the form of the ptrace system call. This allowed one program to monitor the execution of another: setting breakpoints, or...

What is in a name?; Reuse is one of the powerful features of the STL, but it can make naming things rather difficult. Francis Glassborow starts with the 'accumulate' function….(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Our ancestors were right to believe that knowing something's true name gave power over it. The trouble with many of the names we currently use is that they are not true names. Consider the following template function names from the Standard C++...

Persistently yours; Business objects will need state-persistence capabilities to be provided. Philip Brown shows you how.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... In the last couple of months I've introduced business objects and shown how you can represent simple relationships. Expressing relationships as object properties is a more formal (and neutral) depiction of the relationships between data...

The big small platform; Jonathan Knudsen explores the latest release of Java 2, Micro Edition and how networking works in the new javax.microedition.io package.(Technology Information)
June 1, 2000... Java 2, Micro Edition (J2ME) is a version of the Java 2 platform targeted at small devices like mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Up until now, these devices are usually programmed in C, C++ or assembly language. Java is a...

Andrew Koenig.(Company Operations)(Interview)
June 1, 2000... Andrew Koenig is a Member of AT&T Labs Research, where he is the Project Editor of the ISO/ANSI standards committee for C++. He writes about design and programming issues in C++ and works on tools for C++ programmers. He is the author of 'C...

Creating MMC snap-ins; Jon Perkins reveals the existence of the MMC snap-in designer for Visual Basic.(Microsoft Management Console)(Product Information)
June 1, 2000... One of the criticisms that I seem to recall Microsoft promising to address around the time of the Visual Basic 6 launch was that there would be a central Visual Studio site that would be a one-stop location for developers. No more would it be...

Martin Fowler's Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code; Reviewed by Kevlin Henney.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Predicting the future is non-trivial. Refactoring offers a pragmatic but sound route from the past to the future with a focus on the present that accommodates change in software without the need for either clairvoyance or breakage. It keeps a...

Sentimental summer songs; Before she set off on her summer hols, Verity Stob was in lyrical mood.
June 1, 2000... Love poem How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee with my burgeoning. The fruit Of our unwitting union shall take root On this PC beneath thy foolish gaze. I love thee with my pois'nous jealousy. A...