Please don’t beat me. I confess. I’ve been doing extensive Excel development without NebulaXLite. But… there’s a good reason. Read the rest of this entry »

My last blog on Vista was judged "TG’s usual anti Vista rant and a couple of wild links to disappointed mugs" by one of our colleagues. So I decided to look a little deeper at the links about Vista that I provided. Holy cow, it’s worse than I thought.
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I hope you have “Won’t Get Fooled Again” from The Who in your head. This blog has had a major makeover and there’s more to come. I hope you like it. Read the rest of this entry »

I wrote a few blogs on what’s available for GUI development with the JACXX model, but I’m curious what tools you folks are using – especially tools that are less common in the MV space but well-known outside of this space. I’d also like to share thoughts about a new GUI tools project that I’ve just been thinking about.

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A while back I wrote a blog entry on how D3 FlashBASIC works. That blog/article was recently re-published in International Spectrum magazine. Yay! In the QM forum a question came up as to how D3 caches BASIC object code. I thought the little I knew about the topic would serve as a supplemental update to that other entry – frankly I’m not too pleased with this particular posting, it seems to be missing some "sizzle" but it’s something for people who are interested.

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There is a minor "Windows vs *nix" debate going on in the U2 forum this week. I don’t really want to enter the debate. To me it’s important that people just have good information for making their decisions, that they know what resources are available to help them get around issues that they say are high priorities for them. I hope the brief notes here will help.

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I’ve never been too fond of a development concept that’s alternately called wireframing, prototyping, or mockups … until now. This blog entry digresses from my usual fare. It’s a chatty testimonial for some software that I think is kinda cool, and I think it will be of great use to anyone who develops GUI screens.

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I want to make sure that the content in this blog is helpful, accurate, and in some respect entertaining. This entry sums up my overall goals. Comment would be greatly appreciated.

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This is a sort of follow-up (a 3 pager) to my recent blog "Still on a fence about GUI?" I think there are roughly two groups of people who are still on the fence: those who have tried various options and understand their differences, and those who don’t yet realize that almost all of the popular options are pretty much alike.

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People are always looking for "PDF" or "Excel". But what do they really want? This blog entry is essentially a copy of a recent posting I made to comp.databases.pick (with new material added at bottom). I reproduced it here because the exact same question came up a day later in the jBase forum about how to create a PDF file. This is a real FAQ and I’ve discussed the topic here before, but it seems it’s time to revisit the topic.

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