EXE articles from November 1999

EXE archives from November 1999

Digests.
November 1, 1999... Riverton Software has released the HOW Application Server Edition for EJBs. It includes graphical builder tools for designing different tiered objects and OpenFrame, a component deployment framework. There is also an edition for MTS and the DNA...

IBMOs Java wave has just got bigger.(VisualAge for Java 3.0 apps builder, WebSphere Studio 3.0 Internet server software)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1999... As previewed briefly back in August (A Java wave, News) releases of VisualAge for Java 3.0, WebSphere Studio 3.0, WebSphere Application Server 3.0 (Standard and Advanced Editions), and a WebSphere Performance Pack further integrate IBMOs...

Putting the style sheets into XML.(Object Design's eXcelon 2.0 Internet/Web database software)(Product Information)
November 1, 1999... Object Design describes eXcelon 2.0 as the industryOs first XML-based application development environment for the building and deployment of e-business systems in areas such as knowledge management, customer-relationship management, and...

Editing MSI.(Wise Solutions' Wise for Windows Installer 2.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1999... Wise for Windows Installer 2.0 is designed to help hide the full rigour of requirements for MicrosoftOs new Windows Installer technology. An increasing level of granularity is available to the user for the degree of customisation they wish to...

Write data once, recalculate anywhere.(Tidestone's Formula One Java builder)
November 1, 1999... Formula One (F1) is a Java spreadsheet development tool, of which Tidestone has just released version 7.0 (an ActiveX version is also available). It was written for Java 2 and can be used to create Beans, applets, or applications (it can also...

InstallShield Professional 2000.(application development software)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1999... InstallShield Professional 2000 has two elements: InstallShield Professional 6.0, the newest version of the established setup authoring system, and InstallShield for Windows Installer 1.02, an installation system to satisfy the official...

If VB could talk.(Speech Solutions's Voice Tools 6.0 voice recognition software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1999... The speech enabling of VB applications E ie, the use of dictation, voice command, and voice control E is possible with Voice Tools 6.0 from Speech Solutions. A set of 10 ActiveX controls and libraries, it allows you to incorporate speech...

Digests.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Borland has announced itOs developing a high-performance Linux application development environment that will support C, C++, and Delphi development. The project, code named Kylix, is set for release next year. It will be a component-based...

A component for online communities.(VideoSoft's VSForum 2.0, VSSpell 6.0 packages)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1999... There are two new components from VideoSoft: VSForum 2.0, a group discussion component, and VSSpell 6.0, for adding spell checking and thesaurus functionality. VSForum 2.0 includes a Remote Administrator Utility, extra security features,...

Visual Studio Installer 1.0.(Microsoft)(Product Information)
November 1, 1999... For those Visual Studio users who like tools to be bundled with the box, help is at hand for dealing with the new Microsoft Windows Installer technology. It comes in the form of Visual Studio Installer 1.0, which simplifies the creation of...

Visual Studio Installer 1.0.(Microsoft)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 1999... Doing for data what Enterprise JavaBeans application servers do for logic E this is the claim for Javlin, an EJB data server from Object Design. ItOs aimed at reducing the data access times of e-business apps by providing a high-performance...

Can software scale?(Telecom 99)(Industry Trend or Event)
November 1, 1999... Do you know the story of the King and the toaster? Briefly, it recounts a King asking two of his advisors about the shiny box with two slots and how they would go about designing one with an embedded computer on board. The OengineerO offers a...

Technology villages; Jules finds a connection between the rise of the Internet and the collapse of the car-centred transport network.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 1, 1999... From the air, England looks very characteristic. ItOs dotted with small villages, all enmeshed in crossroads. Here and there, towns and cities have landed, and the roads surround and radiate from these like shock waves. ItOs not like Europe at...

Loading Emacs; We welcome short letters on any subject relevant to software development. Please write to: The Editor, EXE Magazine, St. Giles House, 50 Poland Street, London W1V 4AX, or email editorial@exe.co.uk.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 1999... Dear Sir, Peter CollinsonOs well-written review of Unix editors points out the perceptible pause as Emacs loads. There are several ways to reduce this delay, the most painless of which being to increase the threshold of how much memory...

Delphi; Still showing its Pascal heritage, Delphi has reached its fifth incarnation. Jules May takes its measure.(Borland's programming app)(Product Information)
November 1, 1999... Before the days of Windows, compilers were relatively simple affairs. Standardised languages would be designed by academics, then compiler writers would create batch-mode compilers, perhaps adding a keyword here and there in order to better...

Delphi 5 E an old lagOs view.(Borland's programming application)(Product Information)
November 1, 1999... The Bonzo Dog BandOs last ever LP was called LetOs make up and be friendly, and if Borland gave its compilers names instead of version numbers, this wouldnOt be such a bad choice for version 5 of Delphi. For version 4 was a stinker, issued at...

A plethora of Perl publications; Following a recent outpouring of books about Perl, Peter Collinson decided it was time to review his bookshelf.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 1, 1999... OOReilly and Associates is the major publishing house for books on Perl. ItOs more than fair to say that over the last few years OOReilly has given considerable support to Perl. As a result, the language is supplied with much better...

Delphi 5 and custom edits; Mark Smith shows how the new classes and interfaces of the Open Tools API provide rich matter for the writer of Delphi add-ins.(Borland's programming application)(Product Information)
November 1, 1999... With the new release of Delphi comes a lot of new functionality, especially in the integrated development environment. These enhancements are reflected in changes to the programming interface that Delphi presents to the add-in writer E the Open...

javadoc E a friend thatOs overlooked; ItOs flexible, itOs free, and it can be fundamental to the development of Java code. Lou Grinzo politely asks you to consider javadoc.(Technology Information)
November 1, 1999... Documentation. The merest mention of the word is enough to send many programmers screaming from the room in a cold sweat. Given how much most of us detest writing documentation, and all the battle scars most of us have collected by following...

Microsoft Data Engine; Jon Perkins lifts the bonnet on the new Microsoft Data Engine, a more scalable alternative to Jet.(DBMS)(Product Information)
November 1, 1999... Last month I wrote about using SQL-DMO to control SQL Server from Visual Basic. Staying within the general vicinity of SQL Server, IOm now going to discuss the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE). Up to now, the majority of Visual Basic developers...

The futureOs bright. The futureOs criminal.
November 1, 1999... Thanks to the good fellows at Need To Know (www.ntk.net) for putting us onto a hilarious feature in the Guardian on the future of crime. Barring the odd bit of rounding-up fraud, developers have never had much opportunity to enter a life of...

More scary thanE.
November 1, 1999... Cinema fans have been queuing up to buy tickets for the Oscariest film everO, The Blair Mainframe Project. The film features newcomers Robert Young E CEO of RedHat, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com and UK Oe-envoyO Alex Allan as three inexperienced...

Onward, ever onward Exedonia.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
November 1, 1999... Thanks for the massive response to our invitation to submit flag designs for the fledgling Distributed Republic of Exedonia. It took us several weeks to sift through all your entry. And no, thatOs not a typo. Still, heartfelt thanks to Barbara...

Acceptance test; The personnel are poised, the computers are in place, the test documentation is ready, and Ms StobOs company is just about to deliver on a large project. Maybe.
November 1, 1999... OYes, it is rather noisy and dusty and cramped here, weOve been finding it a bit hard to concentrate. Sorry itOs so uncomfortable. But IOve known worse.O What inspired me to say that, for GodOs sake? IOve known worse, have I? When exactly...

Four days in Oxford; Well, three and a half days really. Neil Hewitt and Alun Williams wrap up JaCC 99 into a little neat package, and present it to you on a platter.(ACCU/EXE conference)(Industry Trend or Event)
November 1, 1999... `Where were you, then?' is the question I would ask all those who didn't bother to attend this year's ACCU/EXE conference, staged at the historic Oxford Union over four days from September 15 to 18. Because you missed a whole lot of stuff. Like...

The ways of your errors; Watch out for C anti-idioms. Francis Glassborow looks at the vulnerable ways the Standard C Library deals with possible failures.(handling failures with Standard C Library)(Technology Tutorial)
November 1, 1999... At the recent JaCC event my workshop on writing clean code was hijacked by a couple of experts into a discussion of the correct way to handle program failure. The resulting discussion was an example of what makes these events so enjoyable -...