It’s started – people are getting more comfortable with DesignBais, learning the strengths and how to deal with the weaknesses. When the first release of a new application UI is in production and developers look back to see what they can do better (and respond to the end-user enhancement requests), they’re starting to get creative, [...]

We programmers are always happy to find tools that make our lives a little easier. Good code editors are hard to come by, and we don’t want to use different editors for VB, Java, C#, HTML, XML, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, or a hundred other languages. Once in a long while an individual will take [...]

For those of us who sometimes enjoy a little sophomoric humor:

I just had a situation with DesignBais connecting to two servers. Huh?  Problem solved!

This article is in response to an inquiry in the U2 forum. I think a lot of people are curious about this, though it’s been discussed many times in various forums – and over many meals by some of us…

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

A user in the DesignBais forum asked if there was a way to use a Header Process to put data at the bottom of an MV grid, rather than changing the value of the currently selected MV value. This was a fun and challenging problem, and I have a solution. I don’t know if it’s [...]

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.

I have to admit that I’m confused about the vast number of pages that contain information about changes required for Microsoft platforms. I’ve provided a concise summary here. If you don’t look at the Microsoft pages, just look at the bold text in this article.

I decided to do another posting to some of our MV community forums, introducing people to the upcoming changes in Daylight Saving Time. The content is included here. If you already read the forum posting for this date, there’s nothing new here. But if you haven’t read the forum posting you might get some new insight [...]