Learning from Stupidity
I'll be the first to admit that I've done some really stupid things in my life. Like the time I decided to paddle a canoe across a mile-wide river even as threatening clouds loomed on the horizon. Or...
View ArticleLinux ls Color Coding
It’s always driven me CRAZY the way that RedHat, Fedora, and presumably other Linux systems apply color coding to various types of files and directories in the output of the ls command. It wouldn’t be...
View ArticleStarting Services on Linux
For a while now I’ve been wondering about what the correct way is to start boot time services such as the Synergy License Manager, xfServer and xfServerPlus on Linux systems. A few years ago I managed...
View ArticleI Command Thee
At the DevPartner conference in Chicago (http://conference.synergex.com) we announced an open source project called Symphony Framework. The Symphony Framework project is a Synergy .NET based set of...
View ArticleKeeping Focus
In a traditional Synergy application you have usually always had total control over the user interface. Your program code has displayed the field prompts on the screen, or loaded and placed your UI...
View ArticleReasons to Be Cheerful
Back in 1979 Ian Dury and the Blockheads wrote a song about all the things that made them cheerful. Titled “Reasons to be cheerful, part 3” it’s a quick fire list of things in his life that not only...
View ArticleDevPartner 2015 – WOW!
That was the week that was the DevPartner 2015 conference in Philadelphia. Ok, so I’m biased but I really have to say this was one of the best conference weeks I’ve had the pleasure to be part of for...
View ArticleCovers? Better than the original?
I’m sometimes sceptical when somebody covers a song I know and love as I’m worried that their version may not bring with it the true spirit of the original track. If it’s not done right it just won’t...
View ArticleSTOP! Validation Alert
It’s the tried and trusted way to get the users attention. At the slighting hint of an issue with their data entry you put up a big dialog box complete with warning icons and meaningful information....
View ArticleSymphony Framework Update 3.2.6 – File Management Capabilities
As I wrote about in my last blog the Symphony Harmony namespace provides the ability to execute select queries and stored procedure style method execution using SQL style syntax. The queries and...
View ArticleExamining and modifying Synergy data
The Symphony Framework provides the ability to expose Synergy data as “Data Objects”. A “Data Object” or DO for short, is a class that exposes the fields of your repository structure as properties that...
View ArticleWheel, Scroll, Oops.
If you answer “yes” to the following questions, then please read on: Do you have a Synergy UI Toolkit application? Do you use standard (not ActiveX) list processing with a load method? Do you run your...
View ArticleLet’s get Physical – at DevPartner 2017!
The DevPartner 2017 conference is rapidly approaching and so I thought I’d follow on from Steve’s recent blog about the conference and what a content packed agenda we have this year. As usual we have...
View ArticleI didn’t know you could do that!
Working with the many customers we have is a great opportunity to advance the software we write. Some time ago I blogged about Symphony Bridge – a server based utility that allows you to expose Synergy...
View ArticleProtecting Data
Whenever I work with customers code there is almost always a need to “run” their applications. That means I need data. To ensure that Synergex protects our customers data and that we conform to the...
View ArticleA Winning Formula
For a recent project I’ve worked with a customer who wished to provide their users with an engaging desktop application that would allow management of product formulations. They had a Synergy UI...
View ArticleLearning from Stupidity
I'll be the first to admit that I've done some really stupid things in my life. Like the time I decided to paddle a canoe across a mile-wide river even as threatening clouds loomed on the horizon. Or...
View ArticlePerformance problem upgrading to Server 2012
When one of our customers recently upgraded a file server from Windows Server 2008 to Server 2012, their customers complained of significantly increased end-of-day processing times—up to three times...
View ArticleWheel, Scroll, Oops.
If you answer “yes” to the following questions, then please read on: Do you have a Synergy UI Toolkit application? Do you use standard (not ActiveX) list processing with a load method? Do you run your...
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