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 [...]

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Posted on August 6, 2010 at 12:53 pm by William Hawkins · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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, [...]

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Posted on March 22, 2010 at 9:41 pm by Richard Morris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

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Posted on February 23, 2010 at 6:11 pm by Richard Morris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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 [...]

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Posted on February 18, 2010 at 4:21 pm by William Hawkins · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: ChronoTrack, OO Programming, Synergy/DE 9.3, Tips & Tricks · Tagged with: , , , ,

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 [...]

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Posted on November 13, 2009 at 11:37 pm by Richard Morris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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