I wrote a while back about what one of our clients is doing with SMS. Since then we have taken their SMS to a completely new level. I’d like to share what we’re doing, and how we’re doing it, to give you ideas about what’s possible in both the technical and business sense. Let your [...]

Over the last couple months I have invested considerable time working on development patterns with MV. There is an ongoing struggle as to where code should be put, client, middle-tier, or server. There is no “right” place for all applications, though there are often wrong places.

This became a topic of discussion in the U2 forum recently and I thought I’d post some brief comments here about how I approach this topic with client code that interfaces to the MV DBMS.

If you use mv.NET you may be interested in a collection of extension methods that I’ve created to streamline my own development. By packaging common functions in a separate library, I’m not only making it easier to re-use them across all projects, but I’m giving myself a set of standards o follow, making maintenance easier, [...]

In November 2010 I wrote a couple blogs about using a telephone to interface with MV applications. After completing a few successful projects I decided to make the interface a bit more generic for others to use. Here’s some info on that effort.

As a result of my recent blog on using telephones as an alternative user interface device, one of our clients requested phone access to their data. The first task is to allow sales reps and other authorized users to get inventory data by phone. The second task is to allow delivery people to send an [...]

We have the ability to control the Pick/MultiValue DBMS and applicaions via SMS/texting or with any land-line phone. This is possible using various mechanisms, and I and others have done this in various ways for years. But to my knowledge there are no packaged offerings that allow people to do this simply and “out of [...]

I’m going to post a few articles to describe various facets of mv.NET, both for people who have never seen it as well as for those who are using it. I’ll start here with info about webinars, a video, and some info about the “big picture”.

Many of you know that I’ve been doing more work with Twilio over the last few months. I’ve been progressing slowly simply for lack of time but things are starting move more quickly. We’re starting to look toward near-term deployment of new apps based on the Twilio platform. These are intended toward a general consumer [...]

Following up on Part 1 of this topic, As I continue working on this I’m quite pleased with the progress. I am providing screenshots, and the code which I’m using for testing – just not the code that actually generates the charts.