XML to/from MV – Part 1
I’ve been doing a lot of work lately with XML data. I’m just importing from XML to MV right now but exporting MV to XML can be the same thing in reverse. Here is part 1 of a multipart discussion on the topic.
Caché Tutorials
I’m writing a small series of tutorials for Pick developer/admins to get familiar with the Caché environment. The first one explains how to telnet in, create an account, create a file, edit/compile/run a program – the bare essentials. What would you like to see?
Vista Part 3 … Never thought it would go so far
After posting a Part 2 to my original notes on Vista and Windows 7 I didn’t think it was possible to get enough material for a Part 3. Hey, I’m no stranger to being wrong and I’ll be happy to admit it. But our “Vista Fan” colleague still cannot face the thought of being completely wrong on so many fronts, […]
Solutions for Excel, CSV, Leading Zeros, and related problems
This seems to be a frequent topic in MV forums so I’m posting notes here. In short, people want to use CSV to import product IDs or other text data into Excel. Sure, you can do it.
I’m not using NebulaXLite? Traitor!
Please don’t beat me. I confess. I’ve been doing extensive Excel development without NebulaXLite. But… there’s a good reason.
More Vista notes
My last blog on Vista was judged "TG’s usual anti Vista rant and a couple of wild links to disappointed mugs" by one of our colleagues. So I decided to look a little deeper at the links about Vista that I provided. Holy cow, it’s worse than I thought.
Meet the new blog, same as the old blog
I hope you have “Won’t Get Fooled Again” from The Who in your head. This blog has had a major makeover and there’s more to come. I hope you like it.
So what are You using for MV GUI?
I wrote a few blogs on what’s available for GUI development with the JACXX model, but I’m curious what tools you folks are using – especially tools that are less common in the MV space but well-known outside of this space. I’d also like to share thoughts about a new GUI tools project that I’ve just been thinking about.
D3 FlashBASIC Part 2
A while back I wrote a blog entry on how D3 FlashBASIC works. That blog/article was recently re-published in International Spectrum magazine. Yay! In the QM forum a question came up as to how D3 caches BASIC object code. I thought the little I knew about the topic would serve as a supplemental update to that other entry – frankly I’m […]
Diagnosing Windows Woes
There is a minor "Windows vs *nix" debate going on in the U2 forum this week. I don’t really want to enter the debate. To me it’s important that people just have good information for making their decisions, that they know what resources are available to help them get around issues that they say are high priorities for them. I […]
Balsamiq Mockups
I’ve never been too fond of a development concept that’s alternately called wireframing, prototyping, or mockups … until now. This blog entry digresses from my usual fare. It’s a chatty testimonial for some software that I think is kinda cool, and I think it will be of great use to anyone who develops GUI screens.
About this blog, taking a brief step back
I want to make sure that the content in this blog is helpful, accurate, and in some respect entertaining. This entry sums up my overall goals. Comment would be greatly appreciated.
Web GUI tools – Not as different as they seem
This is a sort of follow-up (a 3 pager) to my recent blog "Still on a fence about GUI?" I think there are roughly two groups of people who are still on the fence: those who have tried various options and understand their differences, and those who don’t yet realize that almost all of the popular options are pretty much […]
HowTo get PDF from MV … again
People are always looking for "PDF" or "Excel". But what do they really want? This blog entry is essentially a copy of a recent posting I made to comp.databases.pick (with new material added at bottom). I reproduced it here because the exact same question came up a day later in the jBase forum about how to create a PDF file. […]
Still on a fence about GUI?
I wonder how many people and companies have given up on GUI, or maybe they’re permanently on the fence and looking for some way to jump off without getting hurt. This is just a frank discussion that might help some people in this situation. If you already have a GUI or you’re comfortable with your current solution, then I invite […]
Looking forward to Windows 7
There’s a webinar on April 22 about Vista and Windows 7, and "the horrible tragedy that could happen when running Windows XP". I can’t laugh hard enough when I see Vista lovers saying XP is a tragedy, even though it’s been the dominant Windows workstation platform for eight years and people are still trying hard to hold onto it. Like […]
mv.NET CRDK or SRDK?
I recently assisted a client with an upgrade of mv.NET from v3.2 to v4.0. This is one of the value-add services provided to our clients who purchase mv.NET from us. A minor code change was required.
Introducing NebulaXChange
In this blog entry from 2007 I documented a new offering called NebulaXChange. As NebulaXLite creates rich spreadsheets from BASIC, NebulaXChange is intended to work on the opposite side, with Excel reaching into MV. After well over a year and a great deal of heartache NebulaXChange lives!
mv.NET Session Management Summary
To respond to a request from one of our clients, and provide a general response for many people who ask similar questions, I am providing here a basic summary of how session management works with mv.NET. This isn’t one of my normal articles, just some info to help some people get started.
Stuff free to good home
I’m cleaning house here and boxing up a lot of old books and software. In some ways I feel like I’m closing a door on a former lifetime. Weird.