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		<title>Re-introduction to NebulaMail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is some new discussion in the MVDBMS forum about e-mail lately so I thought I&#8217;d re-introduce NebulaMail as an option. NebulaMail enables you to send e-mail from any MV platform, on any OS, using pure Pick BASIC, using the exact same code, without concern for MTAs, MUAs, or anything outside the scope of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2012/04/nebulamail-v3.html</link>
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		<title>Auto-Correction &#8230; or Auto-Confusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The astute user of technology doesn&#8217;t trust it. Some editors auto-convert emoticons to smiley faces &#8211; it&#8217;s one of the chars in the Wingding font. I migrated my system recently, noticed this, but dismissed it as an annoying new feature for home users. I appreciate the feature in this blog where I just enter a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/web/2012/04/auto1.html</link>
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		<title>Excel, CrowFlite&#8230; Continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a sort of follow-on to one of my postings last month. My intent here is to kick off some forum discussions based on today&#8217;s posting. The question in short is: We have some great tools for tight integration with Excel that are going to be available very soon, so what else do end-users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2012/03/excel2.html</link>
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		<title>Excel, CrowFlite, AccuTerm, etc etc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I&#8217;ve done a lot of work with the internals of Excel and most of the other Microsoft Office applications, integrating them in some way with Pick/MV business applications. Now I&#8217;m looking to do more with Excel &#8211; but what do you want to see? I created NebulaXLite for developers to create rich [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2012/02/excel1.html</link>
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		<title>MV apps for Web2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web2.0, SOA, SaaS &#8211; there are similarities and vast differences but what they all have in common is that MV business applications are generally not prepared for any of them. I&#8217;m looking for a good accounting system that can be used in the modern business world. If you have one, let me know. If not, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2012/01/mv2web4.html</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on new MVDBMS forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t intend for this to be a big deal (see prior post about comp.databases.pick) but as soon as it got started it sure turned into one. I&#8217;m committed to making the new MVDBMS forum a centerpiece for this community. Here are some related thoughts. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll follow-up with more later. The initiative is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/12/cdp2.html</link>
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		<title>Initiative to replace comp.databases.pick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An initiative is underway to replace the Usenet/NNTP forum comp.databases.pick with a Google Group. This is a big deal. What do you think? The forum commonly known as CDP was one of the very first Pick forums, started in 1993 by Dave Ruggiero. Here is the original petition for the creation of the group. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/12/cdp1.html</link>
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		<title>Who is fooling who?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amusing when people ask if something is technically possible, or &#8220;envision if you will&#8221; some concept, as though other people haven&#8217;t already envisioned or even coded a prototype or full solution. Let&#8217;s cut to the chase &#8211; envision if You will, paying for what you ask. The most recent forum troll is for object-oriented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/12/solutions1.html</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Lite&#8221; telephony with MV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year I&#8217;ve been working intensely with telephony apps which integrate with MV &#8211; and I&#8217;ve blogged on this topic as well. This includes voice in/out and SMS in/out. If you have any interest in adding telephone or texting access into your app, check this out&#8230; As some of you know, I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/11/mvphone1.html</link>
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		<title>Code Collaboration in the MV world?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Johnson started a great thread in the U2 forum, asking about where people go to find and support FOSS for the MV DBMS. Well, there are precious few resources for collaboration in this market. Here are my thoughts on the matter. I&#8217;ve been trying to foster collaborative efforts in the MV community for over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/11/mvcollaboration.html</link>
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		<title>MV to the web &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In part 1 of his series I described how to modify your existing code so that it can be re-purposed for a GUI. In part 2 I described a general coding structure that will allow you to properly execute any program from &#8220;outside&#8221;. In this final part of this series I will discuss various connectivity [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/09/mv2web3-html.html</link>
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		<title>Getting your e-mail? Anyone getting yours?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get email services from a large and respected company, Everyone.net. This week SpamCop has been blocking their servers, and the tens of thousands of domains they represent. As a result, some of my e-mail to you from my domains has not been getting through, and you may not be getting valid e-mail from other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/2011/08/email1.html</link>
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		<title>Advances in Excel document generation for MV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently blogged and Introduction to NebulaXPlus. Today I present a slightly different approach to that introduction. Consider this an AD, but I believe it will help to explain what we&#8217;re now able to do. NebulaXLite allows you to use BASIC to add styles, borders, colors, merged cells, sized columns and rows, multiple worksheets per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/08/xplus2.html</link>
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		<title>Introducing NebulaXPlus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to create sophisticated Excel workbooks with your Pick BASIC application, you may be using NebulaXLite. While a &#8220;lite&#8221; tool, it does satisfy most needs. If you want to do more we now have NebulaXPlus. It&#8217;s always been my contention that when a business manager says he or she wants &#8220;Excel&#8221;, they mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/08/xplus1.html</link>
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		<title>MV to the web &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part 2 in the &#8220;MV to the web&#8221; series. In the first part I described code changes needed to specific functions to separate out the UI from the rules. In this part I&#8217;ll describe a structure you can use for all program item/subroutines to organize your modularized functions. The intent here is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/08/mv2web2.html</link>
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		<title>MV to the web &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of BASIC developers still want to get to the web, but they aren&#8217;t sure what&#8217;s required. Let&#8217;s work it out here. This is Part 1 of (probably) 3 blog/articles that will help to get you started. Let&#8217;s begin with a quick definition of terms: CUI : The Character User Interface is your 80&#215;24 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/08/mv2web1.html</link>
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		<title>Android apps &#8230; for MV?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a feeling I know what the answer here is but&#8230; I&#8217;ve been working on Android apps recently and I was wondering what people think about an Android-based front-end to their MV app. I&#8217;ll prep you now, there&#8217;s a bit of commentary here. I&#8217;m just slamming out the text as I think about it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/07/android1.html</link>
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		<title>Q&amp;A on MVSP from TigerLogic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People are asking questions about the new MVSP connectivity from TigerLogic. I’ll try to answer some of them here. This isn&#8217;t intended to be an exhaustive comparison, just an attempt to clarify where this option fits. The MVSP name identifies a server connection interface for which there are two libraries for creating clients – there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/06/mvsp1.html</link>
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		<title>Back in my day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A discussion in the U2 forum got me thinking. When Pick people talk about how great Pick is, what&#8217;s really happening is that they&#8217;re holding on dearly to simpler times in the face of the onslaught of the modern world. Our generation is no different than those that came before us. It&#8217;s kinda fun to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/05/back-in-my-day1.html</link>
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		<title>Upgrading U2PE 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 I upgraded my Universe and Unidata PE Windows systems and made some notes here. Today I upgraded to Unidata v7.2.7 and Universe v11.1.1. Here are notes on these latest releases. Downloading and installing the PE (Personal Edition) packages from Rocket Software is easier than from IBM because we don&#8217;t need to get an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/04/u2upgrade2.html</link>
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		<title>MV to/from RDBMS &#8211; Not as tough as it sounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted notes here on exchanges between the MVDBMS and Relational databases. I think anyone who needs to do this should be able to take the info here and run with it. Other posts on this topic include: MV and Relational Data Exchanges Part 1 MV / Relational exchanges – Part 2 And (spoiler) what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/04/mv-rdbms2.html</link>
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		<title>NebulaXLite Deactivating</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valued clients &#8211; Once again I&#8217;ve been informed that NebulaXLite is likely to de-activate sometime soon. As discussed here in my blog this only happens on Windows after an OS update, once or twice per year at some sites, and not at all at others. If you are not running NebulaXLite over Windows, this notice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/2011/03/nebulaxlite-deactivating3.html</link>
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		<title>Small updates to blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The software for this blog has been updated. Please let me know if you find any issues. Here are some of the recent changes. Ignore if you&#8217;re only interested in tech stuff. Improved search engine with some fixes. Please let me know if it doesn&#8217;t find something that you know is on the site. Added [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/blogs/2011/03/blog1.html</link>
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		<title>Not going to Spectrum because&#8230; ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a discussion in CDP about the 2011 International Spectrum Conference and who&#8217;s going this year. I have a lot of thoughts about why people don&#8217;t go, why they should, and how to fix many of the problems that ail this Pick/MultiValue market. Oh, how audacious. Tracy Raines wrote: Tigerlogic was not there last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/03/spectrum1.html</link>
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		<title>Latest work with SMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;d like to share what we&#8217;re doing, and how we&#8217;re doing it, to give you ideas about what&#8217;s possible in both the technical and business sense. Let your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/02/sms1.html</link>
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		<title>OpenVBX &#8211; product or code sample?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually write about the MV DBMS and related technologies here but I&#8217;ve created a new Twilio category in this blog and will try to take some time once in a while to blog on this topic, and the related OpenVBX. For now I&#8217;d like to comment on how I see OpenVBX, which seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/twilio/2011/02/openvbx1.html</link>
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		<title>Multi-tier coding patterns with MV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;right&#8221; place for all applications, though there are often wrong places. This isn&#8217;t a complete look into this topic. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/02/mv-patterns1.html</link>
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		<title>Should our code be DBMS-agnostic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This became a topic of discussion in the U2 forum recently and I thought I&#8217;d post some brief comments here about how I approach this topic with client code that interfaces to the MV DBMS. I work on this kind of stuff every single day and I find myself on both sides of the &#8220;database [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/02/agnostic1.html</link>
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		<title>mv.NET Extensions Library &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use mv.NET you may be interested in a collection of extension methods that I&#8217;ve created to streamline my own development. By packaging common functions in a separate library, I&#8217;m not only making it easier to re-use them across all projects, but I&#8217;m giving myself a set of standards o follow, making maintenance easier, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/mvnet/2011/01/ext1.html</link>
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		<title>Protected: Upgrading to mv.NET v4.2</title>
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