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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 »>

Servoy 4.0 preview

On Wednesday, Servoy offered a preview webinar for the changes coming in version 4 -- due for public beta in January, and aimed for release in late Q2 2008. The most high-profile change in this release is the move to Eclipse platform for an IDE, abandoning the somewhat limited proprietary IDE in current versions [...]

Friday, December 14th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | 3 Comments »>

Servoy: simple HTML progress bar

I have several places in Servoy solutions where it's nice to display a simple progress bar to the user. This is for workflows, where the user needs a visual for how far along they are on the task/job/etc. -- not for actual progress on executing code.
I wrote a simple global method you [...]

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | 2 Comments »>

Servoy newsletter

Servoy was nice enough to acknowledge my Servoy-related blogging in their October newsletter. Nice compliment, thanks! Now, I just feel guilty about not blogging more.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Agile Tortoise Widget

Ok, really just an excuse to play with Dashcode, but, yes, ladies and gentlemen, I now have a custom Dashboard Widget for this blog. Please download if you're of the OS X persuasion.

Monday, October 29th, 2007. Posted in Apple, Blogging | No Comments »>

TextMate syntax coloring and Rails 2.0

Now that the Ruby on Rails 2.0 Preview Release is out, I'm playing around with it. First thing I noticed, while minor, is that TextMate's syntax coloring for "HTML (Rails)" doesn't recognize the new view naming scheme. "rhtml" is now replaced by "html.erb" as the file extension.
It's a simple fix, however. Just [...]

Friday, October 19th, 2007. Posted in Ruby on Rails | 6 Comments »>

Large client app online

I spent the weekend migrating data for one of my clients, and they are 'live' starting today on a large Servoy project management application I've been working on for the last year. The app has 160+ forms and reports.
The application handles most of them up-front business processes, Estimating and managing Jobs, through Invoicing, where [...]

Monday, October 1st, 2007. Posted in Servoy, Work | 1 Comment »>

Microsoft demo day

I spent the day yesterday at Microsoft's Irving campus at a demo day required by part-time Microsoft consulting gig. It was interesting, in it own way. Nice to be able to get together with everyone from the consulting gig, most of whom I rarely see in person. Nice to check out MS's [...]

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007. Posted in Dynamics AX, Microsoft | No Comments »>

RSpec

David Chelimsky's intro to RSpec definitely made testing look a lot more practical and worth the effort to me. It makes the grammar of the test much friendlier.

Friday, September 7th, 2007. Posted in lsrc2007 | No Comments »> « Previous Entries Next Entries »