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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 [...]

Thursday, August 7th, 2008. Posted in Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>

mod_console on Google code

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

Friday, August 1st, 2008. Posted in Misc, Servoy | No Comments »>

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. [...]

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008. Posted in Blogging | No Comments »>

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.

Friday, July 25th, 2008. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Testing WordPress for iPhone

Seems to work. Probably won’t make me blog anymore, however.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008. Posted in Blogging, WordPress | No Comments »>

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 [...]

Monday, July 21st, 2008. Posted in Javascript, Servoy | No Comments »>

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 [...]

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Servoy: mod_console release

I’ve released mod_console, a Servoy 4 module to provide a runtime JavaScript interpreter in the Servoy 4 client. If you are a Servoy developer, check it out.

Thursday, June 5th, 2008. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Servoy: make JavaScript object representation of record

I got asked for an example on the Servoy forum of how to make a JavaScript object that is essentially a clone of a “record” object in Servoy, which is actually a Java host object that’s tied to a foundset and has some limitations and overhead associated with it. So, here’s how simple it [...]

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Servoy 4 preview release

The Servoy 4 public preview is now available. It’s a huge upgrade, at least from the developer point of view, as the whole development environment has been moved to Eclipse. Along with that come a great deal of productivity improvements in the editors, better version control support and many other new features.

I’ve been using [...]

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Tech refresh for the company site

With time that would probably have been better invested in actually improving the content of the site, I instead re-deployed my Agile Tortoise company website, in a far more buzzword compliant fashion. That’s right, rather than running on Rails 1.1.6, behind FastCGI on Apache 1.3 on a shared host with code in Subversion and [...]

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008. Posted in Ruby on Rails, Work | 1 Comment »>

Servoy: Transactions are awesome! I hate transactions!

It’s a fact that transactions are important to data integrity in a relational database application. It’s also a fact that I find them burdensome and not particularly friendly to integrate in my development process. Why? Well, in a development system, you really don’t care about data integrity. It’s not real data. [...]

Thursday, April 10th, 2008. Posted in Servoy | 2 Comments »>

Chronic “smart” date update

b.logi.cx posted an elegant and more complete solution to incorporating Chronic date fields in your ActiveRecord models. my version was certainly hack-ish.

I started on a simple helper plugin to use for AJAX previews of chronic’s parsing. Hopefully I’ll have something release on that before too long.

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008. Posted in Ruby on Rails | No Comments »>

Rails and Chronic, easy ’smart’ date fields

There are quite a few Ruby on Rails plugins to give you nice Calendar drop downs for date selection…but, I’m much more partial to the style of fuzzy date entry you see in a lot of apps now, allowing you to enter common strings and have the app figure out the date — ie, “next [...]

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008. Posted in Ruby on Rails | 3 Comments »>

Using the Google Maps API geocoder in Servoy

I’ve posted a Servoy module that demonstrates how to make HTTP REST calls to the Google Maps API geocoder to get back a variety of useful information (such as Long/Lat) of a query address. Download here.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »> « Previous Entries