This is the private home page of Andy Dent, part-owner and chief developer
at
AD Software (Mac and C++ world) and
Aussie Designed Software (.Net and REALbasic world)
Andy's Main Blog
Andy's Wish-List
at Amazon
Detailed resume
Software engineering interests
User Interface Design
examples
Open Source Contributions:
- cppunit c++ testing
Contributed Mac CodeWarrior and Visual Studio 2008
instructions and projects
- expat XML parser
Published my expatpp wrapper to simplify writing
complex parsers
- oofile C++ Frameworks
Published my suite of database, report-writing and GUI forms frameworks
- rbrw-core Report-writer for REALbasic
Published my port of the OOFILE report writer for this cross-platform object-oriented BASIC
- rbstuff Assorted goodies for REALbasic
Published a collection of my sample programs including rbKarel - a version of Karel the Robot for teaching programming skills and logic, using the RBScript compiler built into REALbasic
- rb2doxy Doxygen assistant for REALbasic
Published this utility which is mainly implemented in XSLT, to convert the XML form of REALbasic source to Java class declarations, for documentation generation using doxygen
- rbunit Unit test suite for REALbasic
Contributor of enhancements to the test infrastructure and additional core language regression tests
Published technical articles available online:
Journal of the Software Frameworks Association:
A
Case Against DoCommand, April 1994
MacTech
magazine:
ObjectMaster
2.5 Review, Oct 1994
Customising
AppMaker 2, Dec 1996
Getting
to know c-tree Plus, Nov 1998
REALbasic Developer Magazine:
Karel the REALbasic Robot:How the rbKarel robot simulation teaches logic with RBScript Nov/Dec 2009
Introducing Introspection: REALbasic 2008r1 takes up Navel-Gazing Mar/Apr 2008
Software Development Magazine:
Solo Software Engineering
April 1996 Cover Article
10 year retrospective on Diary-based Design
Articles on Martial Arts:
Slow page of personal pictures
