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A Rose without Thorns - UML, XML and the Composite Design-Pattern

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A Rose without Thorns. UML, XML and the Composite Design-Pattern. This article examines the relationship between fractals and the Composite design-pattern, and explores these structures in terms of XML. This article appeared originally in the August 2001 issue of The Object Factory News, a quarterly newsletter from The Object Factory. Sadly, The Object Factory went out of business in 2001, hence the absence of a link from here to their site. In comparison with a binary tree, this means that the self-simi...

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To Finity, Where Else? Exploring and refuting the principles embodied in initiatives such as Model Driven Architecture

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To Finity, Where Else? Exploring and refuting the principles embodied in initiatives such as Model Driven Architecture. A version of this article appeared in the Jan/Feb 2005 issue of Application Development Advisor. Magazine, under the title 'The Devil is in the Detail' (a title that captures the matter only generally, and which is nowhere near as much fun as implying that proponents of any kind of MDA approach are as well-meaning but daft as Buzz Lightyear). Engineering. This is because physical sy...

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To Inline or not to Inline - A Numerical Model of Inlining-Decision Criteria

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To Inline or not to Inline. A Numerical Model of Inlining-Decision Criteria. An abridged version of this article appeared in the Oct/Nov 2003 issue of Application Development Advisor. Magazine, and another version (also abridged) appeared in the May 2004 issue of Dr Dobbs Journal of Programming. Straightforward as it may seem this is not a mandate for inlining everything and, compilation dependencies aside, three principal factors impinge on the decision to inline or 'outline' a given function. These...

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Understanding Inheritance - The Transition from C to C++

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The Transition from C to C. Ew programmers will have missed the furore in recent years over objects and object oriented programming. Closer examination reveals terms beloved of academics such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. But what do these metaphors actually mean to workaday C programmers in terms of hands-on coding? Many have an excellent understanding of pointers, structures and dynamic allocation but feel the crux of the matter still eludes them. 1995 issue of Computing. Both the win...

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AJAX Analysis - An Overview and Critique of Using XMLHTTPRequest in Client-Side Development

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An Overview and Critique of Using XMLHTTPRequest in Client-Side Development. OAP, Flash, AJAX — one senses a bathroom-cleanser trend these days in web-related nomenclature, akin to the fruity allusions that computer manufacturers have made over time, such as Apple, Apricot, Blackberry, Pearcom, Pineapple 6502, and .um Olive-tti. This article appeared in issue 9 (February 2006) of Objective View, Ratio Group's journal for software development professionals (sadly, Ratio is now defunct). To clarify this, c...

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A Profile of XML - An Exploration of the eXtensible Markup Language

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A Profile of XML. An Exploration of the eXtensible Markup Language. He Mexican poet Octavio Paz once commented: 'the differences between the spoken or written language and the other ones — plastic or musical — are very profound, but not to such an extent that they make us forget that essentially they are all language: expressive systems which possess significant power.'. This article examines XML, its origins, syntax and its relationship to software systems. XML therefore enables us to soften the links b...

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Transparency on Demand - Mandating, Implementing and Using Aspect Orientation in JavaScript

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Mandating, Implementing and Using Aspect Orientation in JavaScript. This article appeared originally in the November 2007 edition of Dr Dobbs Journal of Programming. JavaScript programs are associated with HTML documents by means of script elements where, in the simplest case, opening and closing script. Attribute in an empty script. Element, and listing one illustrates this. JavaScript's interpreted nature aside, this is identical to the #include. Mechanism supported by C and C , but the Pareto principle.

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Dodeca Technologies: Programming, Training and Web Development

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A Single Clear Vision. Programming – Training – Web Development. Welcome to the Dodeca Technologies Ltd. web site, my name is Richard Vaughan. I am a professional software developer and trainer based in South West London, and Dodeca is my company through which I provide a range of services. Please note that, following the recent release of a major new version of my AspectJS JavaScript library. Becky Bye - Freelance Writer. Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre. Yildiz Techical University, Istanbul. Where c...

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Hares and Tortoises - An Empirical Study of the Overheads Carried by Static and Dynamic Implementations of the Decorator Pattern

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An Empirical Study of the Overheads Carried by Static and Dynamic Implementations of the Decorator Pattern. This article is an empirical comparison of the overheads that accompany dynamic and static decoration. A version of this article appeared online in association with the July 2006 edition of Dr Dobbs Journal of Programming. The Benefits of Decoration. That is to say: whichever way you do it, there is always a minimum challenge, therefore any approach that reduces the net complexity to that minimum p...

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Fresh Fuel - An Exploration of Managed C++ on the .NET Platform

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An Exploration of Managed C on the .NET Platform. Hose of you with culinary leanings may have noticed a recipe for Warm Spider Crab Linguine in the March 2002 edition of the BBC's Good Food magazine. This article appeared originally in issue 7 (Autumn 2003) of Ratio Group's. Considering .NET generally, there are some eyebrow-raising claims being made for the technology. The following from the Wrox Press .NET support site is an example:. Using mscorlib.dll using namespace System;. Abstract box delegate ev...