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Servoy: mod_datejs v0.5

I’ve checked in mod_datejs v0.5 to Google Code.  This is a Servoy module that adapts the functions of the excellent Date.js library for use in Servoy, and is distributed under the same MIT-style license.
I haven’t fully adapted the test suite from the original, but I have pretty good test coverage and everything in the library [...]

Servoy: mod_js_core v0.4

I’ve updated my Servoy module, mod_js_core, to version 0.4. This is the first version which includes not only the adapted extensions from the Prototype.js library, but also some Servoy specific convenience methods for working with forms and foundsets.

Servoy tip: fetch n:1 record via calculation

In a Servoy solution, often you have a record and you want to access a record that is related via an n:1 relation. Say, for example, you have a relationship from contacts to companies. You are working with a contact record, and you need to fetch the related company into a variable to [...]

Converting GPT partition to MBR for Vista

When you arrive home from a conference (which you were, of course, smart enough to bring your Mac to), and find that your Windows laptop won't boot because in the process of doing absolutely nothing while you were away, the hard disk failed catastrophically (grr-click, grr-click, type fail), and the other disks you have laying [...]

ServoyCasts

In preparation for ServoyWorld next week, I've been experimenting with screencasting. The result is a new site, ServoyCasts, where I aspire to post new Servoy-related instructional screencasts from time to time.
I haven't reached the production values I'd hoped for the first couple of episodes, but you have to start somewhere, ya know? I [...]

“Build a bundle” of Mac software

Seth's gone live with his "build a bundle" extension to his charity Mac software auctions.
Pick what you need, make an offer...all the money goes to fight cancer. Everyone wins!

mod_console on Google code

I'm moving my free Servoy modules to Google code. mod_console is the first to go.

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. [...]

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