July 2008

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10-ish years?

Anyone remember exactly when Userland released Manila? I was looking at the date, and realizing I think I’ve been blogging for about 10 years. I started briefly with an static site, using Frontier’s web framework, then moved to Manila — running on a 68k Quadra over my 128k DSL line, sometime around 1998. [...]

Servoy: wrapping global methods

One of the best things about Servoy 4 is the dramatically improved JavaScript support. With full support for functions, and the "apply", method you can now do very cool things in the runtime environment.
The example below shows how to take a pre-defined global method, alias it, and replace the original with a new version [...]

Servoy 4.0 goes final

Servoy has released 4.0.  This is a major update for Servoy, at least from a developer perspective, as they have totally abandoned their proprietary IDE and become an Eclipse plugin.  They have also released a free "community" edition.
Servoy is a interesting product.  It's not for everyone.  If you are a developer looking for a flexible [...]

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