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
Challenges Facing Synergy Developers
I was recently involved in a discussion concerning Synergy tools and technologies, and how our customers can best position themselves to take advantage of them. Somewhere along the way, I was asked for (or I volunteered – I don’t exactly remember) my opinion about the current software development landscape, and the challenges that face so [...]
In: Software Development · Tagged with: .NET, GUI, SQL Connection, Synergy.NET, xfODBC, xfServer, xfServerPlus
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: Events · Tagged with: .NET, Events, Synergy 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: Events · Tagged with: .NET, ChronoTrack, DevWeek, OO Programming, SPC, Synergy 9.3
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
Cloudy Days at PDC09
Last week we heard about Richard Morris and Tod Phillips experiences when they visited the Microsoft TechEd conference in Berlin. Well, it's a whole new week, and now there’s a different conference to tell you about. This week Roger Andrews, William Hawkins and I are attending PDC09, which is Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference, held at [...]
In: Events, Industry News · Tagged with: .NET, PDC, Windows 7, Windows Azure
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: Events · Tagged with: .NET, SPC, TechEd, Visual Studio
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