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Shameless plug
I’ve just come back from the UK, where Richard Morris and myself attended DevWeek 2011. The DevWeek conference was hosted at the Barbican center in London, and covered a multitude of various Microsoft / Windows technologies. As it wasn’t hosted by Microsoft, there were no significant goodies/toys given away, but we did gain a lot [...]
In: Events · Tagged with: DevWeek, SPC
Free Stuff!
It’s a rare occasion where anything is truely free. Most of the time it’s simply a way for a marketing company to obtain information about you, so they can provide (or bombard) you with information about products that you have no interest in purchasing. However, there are some occasions when “free” really does mean that [...]
In: Development Tools · Tagged with: .NET, OO Programming, Tips & Tricks
Dig into Synergy/DE 9.5 – Using CodeExchange
Like many of you, I’ve been waiting with baited breath for the release of Synergy/DE 9.5, and the general availability of Synergy .NET. The development team has been working on this project for a few years (I’m sure it seems like longer for them). But it wasn’t until the beta release earlier this year, that [...]
In: Development Tools · Tagged with: CodeExchange
Giving people what they want
I just spent the past few days in Seattle attending Visual Studio Live! 2010. If you’re a regular follower of the Synergex PSG blog, you may have the impression that we swan around the world doing nothing but attending conferences. While I'd like that to be true, it's really in an effort to provide our [...]
In: Events · Tagged with: SPC
Using Workbench to Build Applications on Remote Servers
I recently went to a customer site, to help them integrate Workbench into their OpenVMS development environment. As a source code editor, the “integration” is relatively simple, you just need to have NFS/CIFS/SAMBA installed, and use it to make your OpenVMS (or UNIX) drives look like they’re actually Windows drives. However, when you want to [...]
In: Development Tools · Tagged with: .NET, CodeExchange, OpenVMS, SPC
What’s in my library?
The obvious answer that springs to mind is "books", but some may respond "what sort of library?". Of course, in this context, I'm really referring to a library containing Synergy object code. When referring to Synergy subroutines and functions, on both Windows & Unix, you can perform a "listdbo" or "dblibr -t" on the object [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: Compiler, Librarian, OO Programming, OpenVMS
Application Design Model
During the past few years, the process of designing an application has gone through another revolution of terms. When I started out in computing, data was in records and you wrote programs that have subroutines to perform repetitive tasks. Then there was the short-lived foray into 4GL’s, More recently with the introduction of OO-based languages, we had to learn about [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: MVC, MVVM, UI Toolkit
Cloud and Sunlight at PDC09
PDC09 is my first Microsoft conference, and I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Some excitement at seeing some of leading edge technologies being demonstrated by resident experts, Some trepidation at being presented with a huge variety of different technology and buzzwords. The first session yesterday was a two hour keynote based around some of [...]
In: Events, Industry News · Tagged with: Cloud, PDC, Windows Azure
It’s a good time to clean up your old Synergy DBMS data
Synergy/DE is a pretty forgiving environment when it comes to dealing with fields containing unexpected data. For example, you can have a d field that is either all spaces, all numbers, or some combination, and Synergy/DE will treat the spaces as zeros. (For those of you old enough to remember DBL version 2, back then [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: DBMS, DIBOL, SQL, Synergy.NET, xfNetLink
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