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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: ChronoTrack, OO Programming, Synergy/DE 9.3, Tips & Tricks · Tagged with: .NET, Chris Blundell, 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: OO Programming · Tagged with: Compiler, object library, OpenVMS
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: Azure, Cloud, PDC09
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: .NET, Tips & Tricks · Tagged with: DBMS, DIBOL, SQL, Synergy.NET, xfNetLink
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