Technology
Adios, UserLand
I feel out of the loop. I just now (thanks to Steve Ivy), realized that UserLand had shut down.
In reality, UserLand shut down for me years ago. UserLand Frontier was the environment that helped me learn to program. I was first drawn to it as a tool to make it [...]
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 [...]
OpenSocial Dev Garage
Looking forward to the (free) OpenSocial Dev Garage this weekend at Cohabitat in Dallas. I’ve been fiddling with Facebook applications, and this should give me what I need to prep my apps for both platforms. Neat and well timed.
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 [...]
Servoy-Twitter example: mod_twitter
[Updated version of mod_twitter now on my developers page]
Well, Bob Cusick threw down the gauntlet, and it's not like I had work to do (AH!)...so I whipped up mod_twitter. It's a simple Servoy (v4 or greater) module that shows how to get the public timeline, user timeline, and post a tweet to Twitter from inside [...]
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 [...]
ServoyWorld Slides
I think today's presentation went pretty well. Here's the Slides for those interested.
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!
TAKScopes update
Just rolled out an update to TAKScopes, a Rails site I built for Rice University.
The site now allows for automatic guest login to view sample of the resources available, so you can browse a little more of the site without a paid account. You still can't see the admin interfaces, which is probably the [...]
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. [...]
Just do it!
Bob Cusick put it in far more detailed an eloquent terms, but when it comes down to it the best way to do software development is to "Just do it!" and not spend so much time planning to do it.
Testing WordPress for iPhone
Seems to work. Probably won't make me blog anymore, however.