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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 »>

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 »>

Servoy VUG slides and demo

I’ve uploaded the slides and demo solution from the presentation I did today on the Servoy VUG.

Thursday, September 6th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Servoy VUG

I’ll be presenting at the Servoy Virtual User Group next week. Not sure my presentation skills are all that great, but I’m sure I’ll manage. Not exactly a high pressure environment. Big thanks to Adrian for organizing the event.

Thursday, August 30th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Servoy and TextMate

Looks like I’m not the only one playing with editing my Servoy code in TextMate. Here’s a sample bundle that shows how you can use snippets to easily build some of your common code blocks.

Thursday, August 9th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Servoy: turning global form events into callbacks

Using global methods for form events provides a simple way to build consistent interfaces across your solution while maintaining DRY principals. Servoy's latest 3.5 release includes form event templates, which makes it even easier to apply a set of global events to new forms. There's always cases, however, where you have behaviors that [...]

Monday, August 6th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | 1 Comment »>

Servoy 3.5

Servoy has released version 3.5.� This is a great release, with dramatic improvements in many areas.� Looking forward to even greater things in v4.0.� There's really moving along making Servoy a powerful and easy to use RAD tool.

Friday, July 27th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Servoy snippet: form_exists, form_method_exists

Here's a couple of useful Servoy methods I've been using...
To test for the existence of a form, use the following in a method (mine is in a mod_at module and named 'mod_at_form_exists'):
PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:

eval('forms.'+arguments[0]);

return forms[arguments[0]] ? true : false;

Note the "eval" call ensures that the form has been loaded.
To test for the existence of a [...]

Monday, June 11th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | 1 Comment »>

Servoy Alliance Network

After taking on another large Servoy project, I decided it would be wise to go ahead and join the Servoy Alliance Network as a developer.
The 3.5 beta is out and moving forward with a lot of great additions, particularly to make it easier to move logic down to the data model and out [...]

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007. Posted in Servoy | 2 Comments »>

Servoy: print to screen/file/email/printer

I wanted a convenient way to manage giving the user a option to print any content to a screen preview, file, email or a printer for any print job in the solution. What I came up with is what follows.
First, you'll need a UI, mine looks like this (red text added to show global [...]

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

Servoy CRUD events

A little bird tells me Servoy's getting event hooks for CRUD events in the next update. Sweet. That's been my biggest beef with the product to date, because it makes it hard to avoid repeating your code in multiple forms without them.

Sunday, December 17th, 2006. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

Servoy community

I got an email from Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy. He found a post here via Google. It was nice that 1) he cared enough to get in contact, 2) he agreed with my criticism (which was really more about Sun than Servoy), 3) he used the phrase "sucks big time" (not a [...]

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »>

The wayback machine, sort of

I'm writing an application in Servoy, which in many ways is a very nice database RAD tools. Leverages some of the nice things about Filemaker, without many of it's failings, over a database agnostic JDBC layer.
That said, it rather pathetically relies on Java's html renderer to handle internal HTML rendering. Which means I'm [...]

Monday, August 14th, 2006. Posted in Servoy | No Comments »> Next Entries »