Creating a Nucleus Application:

Nucleus Home Inventory Summary

This article is now on NuWiki.com!

So. What did we prove by this?

Well, first off, we proved that we were brave - or possibly stupid - enough to borrow someone else's design. Not only that, but to publicize it like we did in a public forum like this Wiki.

But we proved something more important to ourselves. That is, that once you know what you want, you can express it in a Nucleus rule set in incredibly short order.

Additional Features

Perhaps the biggest feature that distinguishes our NHI from its QHI descendants is that our program runs not only in multiple presentation formats (certainly an important feature on its own), but it also runs on multi-user databases.

So, while up to one person at a time can use QHI, NHI could be shared simultaneously by up to thousands of people.

Okay, we admit that not many homes would have or need multi-user access to their Home Inventory, but you could, say, deploy this at Bill Gates' house for his army of servant bots to use. That is, if he had a MultiValue platform and Nucleus. We'll pitch this to him next chance we get.

Where you can download the NHI application

• We want people to play with this package.
• We want them to take it apart to see how it works.
• We want them to actually use it.

To accomplish this, some assembly is required:

1. You will need a Database Platform. We like OpenQM. It's open source, it's powerful, and it's free. Download it to your Linux or Windows machine from OpenQM.
2. You will need a copy of Nucleus, available from BinaryStar.
3. To see the full GUI form, you'll need a smart terminal emulator like the great one from Accusoft Enterprises
4. Finally, you will need to download the NHI account from the Binary Star site. We'll put a link up here when it's ready.

Conclusion

We really put Nucleus through its paces to create this NHI application. If you take the time to open it up and examine how we did it, you will see how easy, powerful and sophisticated it really is.

And did we mention that you get multiple user interfaces as a by-product? Once your Nucleus rule set is defined, it can then be deployed on dumb terminals ("green screens"), as well as "thin client" (we like and use Accuterm for this) and as a full-fledged Windows application, practically indistinguishable from a "real" Windows application.

Oh, and it's multi-user right out of the box.

We'd like to see QHI try either of those last two items.

Come visit us at BinaryStar !