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Munge or do not

I’m highly amused at attempts I’ve seen in public forums to munge email addresses.

Lots of website changes – and more

If you’ve subscribed to this blog you probably received some automatic pings recently that changes have been made.

“Using DesignBais” Book Coming Soon!

My first book, Using DesignBais, will be available soon. Here’s the current status. Comments and suggestions welcome.

Pre-DevCon Thoughts

Next week InterSystems will be hosting their annual Developer Conference (DevCon) in Orlando, Florida. I will be attending this event and I thought I’d share some reasons why.

Outlook Appointments from MV

I have code that updates the Outlook Calendar from MV apps. I decided to hook it up with DesignBais. This is just too cool.

Free macros clean Outlook email Subject text

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 [...]

The Dreaded Back Button

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 "break their fingers", but most of my colleagues aren’t italian, so here’s a solution for the rest of you.

DesignBais Hacks – Introduction Part 1

One of the neat things about DesignBais is that the product itself is written in DesignBais. This isn’t uncommon in the world today. Java is written in Java, C is C, C# is C#, etc. While we can’t open DesignBais system forms in the Forms Designer, we can manually customize them. We could do this [...]

D3 Tip – OSFI Part 1

Over the years there seems to be continuing confusion on how the D3 OSFI works, and confusion with the similarly named FSI. In this first tip on this topic, I’ll provide a couple hints about how to use slashes and drive references, and some examples for use.

DesignBais Tip – The Art of Indirection

One of the less intuitive aspects of working with DesignBais is that things aren’t always done directly. We don’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.

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