My two main areas of interest in my software design career has been user interaction and an

Everyone who has read a popular book on the Internet knows that it was invented by researchers at

[http://golfadept.com] This example is called TripKML. It reads pre-recorded GeoPt records and

[http://golfadept.com] One of the reasons I considered creating Trogger (The Travel Log) is that it

I am using Adept Bookings as a proof-of-concept system for the Adept Development System. The first

Now that I am working in a research job again I will be reviving my blogging. As Software Manager I

Nothing is forever. If you have a program that is short-lived compared to the mean time between

As promised, here it is. Refer to the earlier articles if you want to know the hows and whys. /* *

My first attempt at an event library allowed a single event to be attached to multiple elements, as

I've no intention to describe the event object in detail. After all, the subject could easily

In truth, all caches created using the Cache class are LRU caches. If you need to use the other

This is part 1 of a 3 part series. Part 1: Setting Events Part 2: The Event Object. Part 3: A General

While we are talking about going overboard while following a standard, let's talk about

Every enterprise level application implements caching somewhere. Even loading static class-level

The reason for the unusual title is because I've created the visual tree code for Adept. The

Standardisation isn't just about styles. Very soon after the advent of Java, Sun introduced the

What happens when a user fills in a form and presses the submit button? If all goes well he will move

Coding Standards and Breaking the Rules - Part 1, Layout Code Layout I have always been a bit of a

So I've had a couple of months between contracts. Naturally, I've been spending quite a bit

Software developers believe in the holy grail of self-documenting code. Sorry, Sir Gawain - but it

Fractions are Useful Too There was a time before floating point co-processors and built-in floating

With CGI becoming redundant as time passes and technology moves on, it may seem a little dated to be

This is not a training session on multi-tasking in Java. I'll leave that hot potato for the more

While Adept is an application server, it provides an interface that has more in common with a native

I've been developing for and with multi-tasking systems since what feels like the dawn of time,

The Adept Object Database stores Java objects directly into persistent storage. It's not just the

An Action is the most primitive servlet. It's used to give a command to the server when no

Integrating thread support in the base Object class and in the language syntax wasn't what I'

The process has been touched on in The Adept Server Model. Here I'ill document the raw and

The Java alternative to the C printf() function is java.text.MessageFormat, a rarely used class to