I don’t know how many people know this but activating D3NT is a real breeze in v7.5.x because activations are provided transparently over the internet. Hmmm, this seems to dove-tail with the Web Services blogs. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have any interest in my other postings on Web Services for MV, or you’re still not sure why you should be interested, you must read this article at InformationWeek called “Why IT Needs To Push Data Sharing Efforts“. That explains briefly and in clear terms how and why the rest of the world is (or should be) sharing data. Note that there is more to the article than you see there, register (free) on the site to get the PDF of the full magazine. BTW, IIRC, I’ve been reading InformationWeek for about 12 years now and in almost every issue there is something of value to the MV market – but sadly I never see anyone in the MV market reaping the benefits. Check it out.

As discussed in another blog, I recently created a new product which will make it a LOT easier for MV developers to make their applications accessible via Web Services. This blog/article goes deeper into explaining what that product does and the thought process in creating it. Read the rest of this entry »

We have a new product that’s in a highly functional alpha status and I’d like to enter into discussions with people to discuss required features. In short, this allows BASIC subroutines to quickly render as Web Services for inbound requests from trading partners. It’s primarily an end-user product but of course VARs are welcome to offer this as a value-add extension to their applications for existing sites and to attract new sales. Read the rest of this entry »

In the jBase forum someone was recently looking for a jBase tutorial for Oracle/RDBMS users, or for someone new to databases in general. Many years ago I did a presentation called Pick for Relational Experts. It included the points presented here, which apply to all Pick/MultiValue DBMS platforms. I welcome others to compare and contrast jBase/MV with Relational, and comments from those more familiar with the relational environments as well. Read the rest of this entry »

For many years Pick developers have relied on a trick to extract the last value element from a multi-valued attribute. I don’t have access to internal F-correlative code to explain why it really works but I can provide an explanation based on observations, along with a couple variations of the trick to explore how it behaves. I welcome corrections from someone with a clue. (Chandru M? Henry E? Mark B? Dick P? anyone still alive?) Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a .NET developer and interested in Facebook development, the FBGraph.NET SDK is definitely going to be of value. Keep an eye on the project for when it gets published. Here are today’s notes Read the rest of this entry »

I’ll start this new blog category with a blunt statement. I really dislike Facebook. It’s a wildly popular website/platform/application, but it’s very poor quality software. That said, I plan to write applications that integrate with Facebook (and other sites like Twitter, Google apps, etc) so I’ll document in this section my thoughts and experiences with coding into the platform. Read the rest of this entry »

One of our colleagues just announced she’s moving from MV to .NET. I haven’t written a blog entry for a while here so I thought I’d share some random thoughts on the topic. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve been informed that Permanent activations for NebulaXLite have suddenly de-activated at a couple sites. This same situation occurred about four months ago. The working theory is that a Windows Update replaces some key OS files that are used as “supposedly” consistent markers. The fastest solution to the problem is simply to generate a new request so that we can send you a new key. Read the rest of this entry »