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	<title>Neblog &#187; General</title>
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	<description>Welcome to the Nebula</description>
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		<title>About this blog, taking a brief step back</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2009/05/stepback1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2009/05/stepback1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 19:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.

My blogs are rarely planned and edited down &#34;formula&#34; white papers, like what I&#8217;d write for a magazine article. I usually take a central concept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff free to good home</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2009/02/stuff1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2009/02/stuff1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m cleaning house here and boxing up a lot of old books and software. In some ways I feel like I&#8217;m closing a door on a former lifetime. Weird.

The books span from late 70&#8217;s to mid 90&#8217;s and include the following:

circuit design and logic (pre-microprocessor) 
assembler (8086 &#38; 360 BAL) 
Ada 
Enterprise Java Beans (several) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t click the link</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/06/dontclick1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/06/dontclick1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A public service announcement, and experiment with the human psyche. I repeat: Do not click the link!

I have no idea what the link below is, and really don&#8217;t care. It&#8217;s not related to MV but it was posted to a MV forum.
DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK

&#x6e;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x63;&#x79;&#x67;&#x72;&#x6f;&#x75;&#x70;&#x32;&#x40;&#x67;&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x2e;&#x63;om wrote:FREE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD ONLINEhttp://freesoftwareonlinedownload.blogspot.com

I&#8217;m not kidding. This is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair price for consulting services?</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/06/price4services1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/06/price4services1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Kevin Powick recently posted a help wanted ad for consulting work: 30-40 hours per week at $35/hour over a period of about six months. One way to look at this is that for someone who doesn&#8217;t have a job that&#8217;s over $25,000 that they didn&#8217;t have before. Some people who charge [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>When we&#8217;re gone</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/05/will1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/05/will1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 20:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a somber note, we all know what a living will is, or a last will for distributing our worldly goods, but how many people have a will that helps those who come into our office to pick up the pieces when we&#8217;re gone?

None of us are immortal. I know a number of people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandma, didn&#8217;t you read the manual?</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/05/blaming-users-01.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/05/blaming-users-01.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 08:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I need to set this up briefly. I don&#8217;t just hang around in MV forums, I hang around in a lot of different forums. My latest venture was to the usenet forum microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general where people go to get advice with problems with IE. The mentality of the people providing responses there has just floored me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estimating project time</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/03/estimates1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/03/estimates1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog entry I mentioned a couple tools I use for tracking time. Today a forum posting mentioned the difficulty of doing accurate project estimates. I&#8217;ve made mistakes on both sides of the estimation game, and documented a couple of them here. I&#8217;ve been doing this for years but I confess I still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the blog</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/03/back-to-blogging.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/03/back-to-blogging.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/general/2008/03/back-to-blogging.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written many blog entries lately. I keep saving up material that I think would be interesting but somehow I never get to publishing it. Right now I&#8217;m looking at about 25 unpublished blog drafts, most of which will never get published. This is just an FYI that I intend to start publishing on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Keep the blog Archive sidebar?</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/02/archive-list1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2008/02/archive-list1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On another blog I read which focuses on Excel, the author is wondering whether he should keep the Archives sidebar (to the right) with the list of links by Month/Year. I&#8217;m wondering about that too.

The reason I originally started to use the Archive listing is so that people can see the blog has been active [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Munge or do not</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2007/11/munge1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2007/11/munge1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/general/2007/11/munge1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m highly amused at attempts I&#8217;ve seen in public forums to munge email addresses.
Spammers want your domain. Even script kiddies go further than a username@domain reference. A space between username&#160;@&#160;domain.com is useless except to hassle anyone who wants to email you.
How do bots get addresses to spam you? From the domain, bots get your homepage, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of website changes &#8211; and more</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2007/09/lots-of-changes1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2007/09/lots-of-changes1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve subscribed to this blog you probably received some automatic&#160;pings recently that changes have been made.
We re-hosted to a new server recently after months of dealing with a fiasco with our former host, documented here. I&#8217;m very happy with this new host and with the speed with which all pages are loading,&#160;and we&#160;have been&#160;building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Using DesignBais&#8221; Book Coming Soon!</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2007/04/usingdb-01.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2007/04/usingdb-01.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DesignBais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My first book, Using DesignBais, will be available soon. Here&#8217;s the current status. Comments and suggestions welcome.
This is a massive undertaking. I&#8217;ve worked on other books before as Tech Editor and Reviewer but I&#8217;ve never written a book on my own. If you wouldn&#8217;t mind providing some feedback, I&#8217;d really appreciate your comments on any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-DevCon Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2007/03/devcon1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2007/03/devcon1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Caché]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next week InterSystems will be hosting their annual Developer Conference (DevCon) in Orlando, Florida. I will be attending this event and I thought I&#8217;d share some reasons why.

Business
InterSystems is a strong company that has a lot to offer the reseller channel. If you have an MV application and you want to approach new sales prospects [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Outlook Appointments from MV</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/11/outlookappt1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/11/outlookappt1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[.NET General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DesignBais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MV]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mv.NET]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have code that updates the Outlook Calendar from MV apps. I decided to hook it up with DesignBais. This is just too cool.
I won&#8217;t bother to write too much on this. The images tell the story. I had to scrunch up the images to fit on this page. Click the links to launch the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Free macros clean Outlook email Subject text</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/11/outlooksubjects1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/11/outlooksubjects1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over a year ago I posted some freeware for Microsoft Outlook which eliminates junk out of email Subject lines. It really helps when searching and sorting. I update it periodically and post the changes for whomever is interested. I just made a number of small changes recently, so I decided to tell you a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dreaded Back Button</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/11/backbutton1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/11/backbutton1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ASP.NET]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DesignBais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FlashCONNECT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once in a while this question comes up about what to do when the user hits the Back button in a browser app. Well, the italian in me says &#34;break their fingers&#34;, but most of my colleagues aren&#8217;t italian, so here&#8217;s a solution for the rest of you.
This one is pretty easy. One solution, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DesignBais Hacks &#8211; Introduction Part 1</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/10/dbhacks-intro1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/10/dbhacks-intro1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DesignBais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/10/dbhacks-intro1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the neat things about DesignBais is that the product itself is written in DesignBais. This isn&#8217;t uncommon in the world today. Java is written in Java, C is C, C# is C#, etc. While we can&#8217;t open DesignBais system forms in the Forms Designer, we can manually customize them. We could do this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D3 Tip &#8211; OSFI Part 1</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/10/d3tip-osfi01.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/10/d3tip-osfi01.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[D3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years there seems to be continuing confusion on how the D3 OSFI works, and confusion&#160;with the similarly named FSI. In this first tip on this topic, I&#8217;ll provide a couple hints about how to use slashes and drive references, and some examples for use.
Once in a while we&#8217;ll see someone post an OSFI [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>DesignBais Tip &#8211; The Art of Indirection</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-indirection1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-indirection1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DesignBais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-indirection1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the less intuitive aspects of working with DesignBais is that things aren&#8217;t always done directly. We don&#8217;t always use Field=Data to assign data to a field. We frequently need to tell the field where it needs to go to get its data, and then we load that data source as necessary.
As one example, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>DesignBais Tip &#8211; Launching a URL &#8211; Part 2, E-mail</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-url2.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-url2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DesignBais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-url2.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 on Launching a URL&#160;provided details about how to launch a complex URL from a DesignBais form. In this Part 2 of 2 I&#8217;ll show you how to send e-mail from the user&#8217;s PC. The effect we&#8217;re looking for is a Click Here link which will launch the end-user&#8217;s email client, rather than sending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DesignBais v3.3 Startup problem</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/designbais-v33-startup-problem.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/designbais-v33-startup-problem.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an issue with DesignBais v3.3 and mv.NET v2.1.4 where starting DesignBais from the startDB.asp web page consistently fails with &#34;cannot connect&#34;-type messages that don&#8217;t lead to any specific problem. If you have not seen this then you don&#8217;t need the solution presented here, but for some of us the problem seems chronic.
I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DesignBais Tip &#8211; Launching a URL &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-url1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-url1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtip-url1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked by one of my clients to provide a button on a Customer Master Maintenance form which would launch a browser window to display a map showing directions from the home office to the customer being viewed. Oh boy, a challenge! This article provides info required for doing this.

As an example&#160;or what we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Updated DesignBais Code Template</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtemplate1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtemplate1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/09/dbtemplate1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When starting work with DesignBais all of us are introduced to that initial bit of code &#8211; the big Case block that does the Gosub to handle each event. Many of us copy this template to all of our programs, then cut out what we don&#8217;t need. Some of us leave it all in there, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DesignBais Tip &#8211; Alternative Graphs</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-graphs1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-graphs1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-graphs1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Graph component in DesignBais is great. The documentation might make the BASIC code for graphs look complex, but after you do it just once, you&#8217;ll realize it&#8217;s quite simple. This article discusses how to generate graphs using alternative components. As a bonus we&#8217;ll see how DesignBais can be integrated with lots of third-party products [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>DesignBais Tip &#8211; Getting Client Info</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-clientinfo1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-clientinfo1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-clientinfo1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A question came up in the DesignBais forum : &#34;Is there any way for me to find the IP Address or Hostname of the requesting machine?&#34; There are a couple &#34;unorthodox&#34; ways to do this. With the information provided here you will get an idea of how to get any data into your application from [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>DesignBais Tip &#8211; Dynamic Color and Images</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-color-and-images1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-color-and-images1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-color-and-images1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DesignBais uses CSS styles to help us maintain a consistent style and color palatte throughout our applications. Too much variety decreases the professional look and feel (L&#38;F) of the environment. But there are times where a little splash of color can be helpful. Displaying one or more images programmatically can also help to&#160;accentuate significant data.
As [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>DesignBais Tip &#8211; Housekeeping</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-housekeeping1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/dbtip-housekeeping1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/08/designbais-tip-housekeeping.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DesignBais requires very little maintenance but here are a couple pointers. 
The DBIXMLLOG file tends to get very large if logging is turned on, and periodically needs to be cleared. Logging is enabled on a per-user basis from the Users maintenance form. In each DesignBais-enabled account, Clear-File on this file at some periodic interval, perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Quote of the Week</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/07/qotw.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/07/qotw.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to actually have a new quote every week but this one from Kevin King in the U2 forum just needs to be repeated: 
&#34;I think there&#8217;s a lot to be said for looking at a database like a refrigerator. Stuff goes in, stuff comes out, and if stuff stays in too long [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Client-side Scripting in DesignBais</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/07/dbscript1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/07/dbscript1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/07/dbscript1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DesignBais doesn&#8217;t have documented support for JavaScript or VBScript for customized client-side behaviors, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t do it. Here&#8217;s a discussion on the topic.
One of the main purposes of JavaScript and VBScript is to put code into the client to avoid a round trip to the server &#8211; specifically to avoid a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>DesignBais Tip &#8211; Image Toolbar</title>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/07/dbtip-toolbar1.html</link>
		<comments>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/07/dbtip-toolbar1.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Gravagno</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/general/2006/07/dbtip-toolbar1.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using graphical elements familiar to end-users will enhance the value of your application and show that you really are taking that next step toward a real GUI. A toolbar is an example of the sort of thick-client UI feature that end-users are starting to expect in browser apps now.
To reproduce the look and feel of [...]]]></description>
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