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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: Travel · Tagged with: Bill Mooney, Cloud, UK
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: Web Development, Web Services
On The Conference Trail
Can you believe it is four months since I posted my first blog from Microsoft TechED in Berlin? Time certainly does fly by, and so does the changing world of software development. At Synergex we are committed to ensuring that we keep abreast of advancing technologies, so that we can continue providing expert advice and [...]
In: .NET, Events, Synergy/DE 9.3
How Did I Get Here?
Well, that was the DevWeek that was. As I mentioned in my last blog, it’s been my first time here, and it’s been a very informative and interesting conference. Will I attend next year? I’d like to think so. But that decision is not mine to be made. As many of you reading this know, [...]
In: .NET, ChronoTrack, Events, OO Programming, Synergy/DE 9.3 · Tagged with: SPC
Now that’s what I call service!
Web services have been around for quite a while now. If you attended the Success Partner Conference back in 2006, in London or Boston, you’ll have completed a hands-on tutorial that walked you through the steps required to consume web services with Synergy code. During the conference, we wrote Synergy code to consume a number of [...]
In: Web Services · Tagged with: CodeExchange, SPC
To Print or not To Print
The Synergy Windows Printing API is a collection of routines that allow you to fully control printing on the Windows platform, and make use of extended printer features. The API records the print information in a Windows enhanced metafile which can then be played back to devices such as a printer or the print preview [...]
In: Synergy/DE 9.3, Tips & Tricks, Windows Printing API · Tagged with: API, DBLDIR, printing, Synergy Windows Printing API
Picture This!
In days of old, carrying your trusted, heavy weight camera around your neck, you’d take the perfect snap. You’d then continue snapping away until the film was full, which, for the impatient among us, meant taking a large number of “I was just finishing off the film darling” type shots. On returning home you’d quickly [...]
In: Synergy/DE 9.3, Tips & Tricks, Windows Printing API · Tagged with: Harrier, OpenVMS
Testing Times
Today, I am a Net Ninja! Well that’s what my freebie t-shirt, procured from TechEd, says I am . To be honest I’m not sure what a Net Ninja is, but my understanding of a “Ninja” is a warrior, a fighter. Someone who battles against adversity is pursuit of perfection. Well, I feel a little [...]
In: ChronoTrack, Synergy/DE 9.3 · Tagged with: ChronoTrack, CodeExchange, data encryption, Synergy.NET, TechEd, xfServer, xfServerPlus
ChronoTrack goes virtual!
Did you attend SPC2009? If you did then you’ll know all about ChronoTrack. If you didn’t, ChronoTrack is an application that the PSG team developed to showcase the latest technologies available to Synergy developers. It’s a UI Toolkit application that’s had a face lift! It’s a cool, slick web site, oh, and a mobile app, [...]
In: .NET, ChronoTrack, UI Toolkit, xfNetLink, xfServerPlus · Tagged with: ChronoTrack, CodeExchange, WinForms, xfNetLink.NET
Live from TechED, Updated!
The end of TechED is nigh, and to be honest I'm sort of happy. It's been an intense week of presentations, workshops and in depth discussions with fellow developers, Microsoft techies and the guys at all the UI control vendors. I know what our customers mean now after they have attended our SPC: info overload [...]
In: .NET, Events · Tagged with: .NET, SPC, TechEd, Visual Studio






