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All Hooked Up. (Circa 1957, Elvis Presley)
Back in the day, Elvis Presley shook up a bit of a stir when his gyrating hips and dulcet tones came over the airways onto our little black and white TVs (so I was told, I’m not old enough!). Today, Synergex is defining a development that will shake the Synergy world when it’s released with [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: IO Hooks, Synergy 9.5
Lights, Camera, Action!
Now, thinking that once the Synergex Success Partner Conference (http://spc.synergex.com) is over, and we are all sat basking in the glory of the survey results (thanks to everyone who filled them in – the cheques are in the post!), sipping alcohol-free Pina Colada’s, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Once the conference is over, [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET Assembly API, OO Programming, Silverlight, SPC, Synergy.NET, Visual Studio
The Final Chapter
Using Synergy in all aspects of a new WPF based development is really quite exciting. But when you start to bring in code that was written many years ago you really begin to see the power of a truly cross platform capable development environment. The task I started while working with White Knight was to [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, SPC, Synergy 9.5, WPF
The .NET Rollercoaster
Sometimes my job feels like I’m on a rollercoaster with some great highs and some scary lows, and the adrenaline rushes between the two. Version 9.5, complete with the Visual Studio integration with Synergy, was officially released yesterday. I’m sure I was not the first one, but I was straight to the resource centre at [...]
In: Development Tools · Tagged with: Synergy 9.5, Synergy.NET
.NET is a blast
One great aspect about my job is not only helping people utilise Synergy to the full, but to see the results of their hard work. And there is no better place to do this than “at the coal face”. Today’s coal face is, of course, on the shop floor at White Knight laundry. I was [...]
In: Success Stories · Tagged with: .NET, OO Programming
Taking .NET to the cleaners
Ding dong, “Laundry service”! Now you could be mistaken for thinking that I’m staying in a rather nice hotel, being called upon by the maid for my dirty laundry. Not so, I’m afraid, I’ll be taking my dirty ‘smalls’ home with me. But for one of our customers, this is their calling card. The customer [...]
In: Success Stories · Tagged with: .NET, Linux, SPC, xfServerPlus
Mr Numpty’s hair stood on end. It must be the static!
One fine day (well, it was raining – it is the UK after all), not too long ago (yesterday), there was a man called Mr Numpty (names changed to protect the innocent). Mr Numpty was a seasoned Synergy developer and wrote Toolkit applications in his sleep (amazing what Workbench can do for you these days). [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: Synergy 9.3, UI Toolkit
Blunt Pencil?
I guess all jobs have their perks. This week visiting the office in California, in July, is certainly one of mine. OK, so being stuck in an air conditioned office all week is not exactly lapping up the sunshine, but today is Saturday and I’ve been loaned a bike! Now, when I say bike, let me explain. It’s [...]
In: Events · Tagged with: Events, SPC, Synergy 9.3, UI Toolkit
The Cloud
Star date 16 May, Consultants log 1. At three pm this afternoon I was arriving at Manchester airport expecting to catch a 40 minute flight over to Belfast for a relaxing evening before visiting customers on Monday morning. Six hours later I’m sat on the desk of a Norforkline ferry with a seven hour crossing [...]
In: Just for Fun · Tagged with: Bill Mooney, Cloud, Travel
Counting on Synergy
One of our customers, Ibcos Computers, has used Synergy/DE to develop a web server. It may sound a bit bland, but it’s actually quite cool. In simple terms they have a server program running, written in Synergy, which accepts inbound resource requests. Each request then causes a child processes (again in Synergy) to be created [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: Web Development, Web Services
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