Remote System Access
There are a number of products that allow us to control other desktops, do presentations, etc.. I thought I’d share my experience with a few.
Website hacking, the dark side – Part 1
I have a couple pages that discuss hacking in the "white hat" sense of business website enhancement. There is another side to this that I think should be exposed. To beat a hacker you have to think like one, and if you aren’t thinking like one then your site may be vulnerable to someone who is. Let’s look at some […]
How Pick Dictionary Items Work
Even after years many Pick people aren’t quite sure how atb7 or 8 work, they just put something one place, then the other, and if it works they leave it until they find out it doesn’t work for some new purpose. Here is how they work.
D3 – Recompiling Code
The following is some great information posted to the Raining Data web forum by Robert Burke, their new Technical Support Director. I’ve posted it here verbatim for your benefit.
Solution for Weird Communications Issues
I’ve had some recent experience with communications failures and I found the solution was to turn off a setting on my Network Interface Card (NIC) that I never knew existed. This lead me to some personal thoughts on how technicans resolve problems.
Explaining Usenet
Once in a while, people will ask questions in a Usenet forum that have nothing to do with the actual forum topic. One of our colleagues asked about the nature of Usenet itself in our comp.databases.pick newsgroup. I’ve posted a lot of info like this in CDP in the past but it seems to get lost in the ether, so […]
Switching Web Hosting Providers
The last several months have been hell as far as getting and sending email, and for a while dynamic pages on this site (like this blog) were returning server errors to our visitors. I finally changed my host for email and I’m about to switch HTTP services as well. Here’s the story.
The Dreaded Back Button – Part 2
From the "give um an inch" department, it seems people aren’t happy with eliminating the back button from the browser. Eliminating all of the browser buttons wasn’t good enough either. No, the very first request was "now can we get rid of the X button in the corner that closes the application? Sigh – OK, the answer is yes.
DesignBais Tip – Goodbye plain text forms
How’d you like to get complex text and image formatting into your DesignBais forms? How’d you like to edit that text with a WYSIWYG editor, without having to see any HTML at all? Might your users be interested in storing formatted data rather than plain old text – including images?
Running scripts from your desktop
You can easily find answers elsewhere to the security problem documented here, but since one of my recent posts might lead you into the problem I thought I’d provide the solution.
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 about it here and point […]
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 with the editor but I […]
Setting Time, MV and *nix
Steven Dorst asked about setting D3 time from the host OS. Here are some notes about setting the OS or MV time from either environment.
Daylight Saving Time – Are you Ready?
The beginning of this important information about Daylight Saving Time has been provided by Brian Coles as part of his valuable information about AIX which I’ve placed in another article. The important point right now is:At 2am on Sunday October 29th, 2006, set your clocks back one hour if you’re in DST. But that’s not all !
DST and AIX
This information has been provided by Brian Coles, AIX Engineer. If you use AIX or have clients using it, you will especially want to read this.
About the New Time Category
I originally started this Time category (see categories in right margin) just to document one issue, the coming of Daylight Saving Time changes. It seems there are a number of topics to be discussed, and not a lot of time to do it. I’m throwing this category together quickly, because … time is of the essence. Enjoy.
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.
Protected: Hands-on User Group Meetings
Dear CDBMA Pick User Group member, as you are well aware, we haven’t had a meeting for two years now. Is it lack of interest? Lack of material? Have you found another cure for insomnia? I don’t know about you but I miss the food. (Oh, and the people too!) So I pitched an idea to our fearless leader Mark […]