The Tale of Two Random String Functions
I’ve been thinking a lot of random strings lately. Notice that this isn’t about generating a UUID. I just wanted to generate a reasonably random string. Originally I had need for a user ‘typable’ string. I get really frustrated by the CAPTCHA strings when they include the ambiguous characters of I, 1, O, and 0. [...]
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Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter – 0.2beta
Hello Visual Foxpro Programmers, Here’s an update to the ‘Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter’. I’ve just released version 0.2Beta. There are numerous updates including: The Real Studio project now properly identifies the forms as belonging to the project. More controls are converted such as the Option Groups and Image Controls The method code for [...]
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Visual Foxpro to Real Studio Converter – 0.1beta
I love Visual Foxpro. Let me throw that out there right now and right up front. Unfortunately, Microsoft isn’t going to continue to develop Visual Foxpro and official support is scheduled to end in 2015. Sure, there will be VFP applications that continue to run for years to come. But, where do you go when [...]
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Google Merchant Data Feed Update
I have a client that lives and dies with Google for his business. Adwords, organics, and Shopping Results are key to driving traffic and orders through his business. On September 22nd, Google is updating their requirements for the feed they accept for their Merchant accounts. We were successfully uploading over 6,000 items into their feeds [...]
Tags: Data Feed, Google, Merchant
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Real Studio not ready for Ubuntu 11.04 … yet.
I recently upgraded my test laptop from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04 with the new Unity interface. I’m going to take this laptop to the Detroit Area Users Group for a demonstration of Real Studio and I thought I’d demonstrate it on the latest and greatest Ubuntu. A small problem however. No graphic images show [...]
Tags: 11.04, Graphics, Images, REAL Studio, Ubuntu
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World Memory Project – Windows Only – WTH?
You may not know this factoid about me, but I’ve been researching my family history, doing the whole Genealogy thing. Ancestry.com is an almost ‘must have’ subscription to help speed along the research. You can do a lot with free web sites and lots of research, but Ancestry.com helps. I received an email from them [...]
Tags: Genealogy, Linux, Software, Windows Only
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Linux notify-send – time parameter ignored
I’m trying to add some notification capabilities to a cross-platform application that I am building. On Linux I was happy to find the notify-send utility which does a nice job of notifying the user that something occurred inside of the application. Something was strange about it though. The expiration-time parameter is ignored. No matter what [...]
Tags: Linux, notifications, notify-send, timeout
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REAL Studio – Listbox Font
This morning I was looking around for how to adjust the font for a row of sales figures in a listbox. I wanted the refunds to show in red italic, and the regular records to show in the default black font. Luckily REAL Studio makes this easy … as long as you know where to [...]
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ctEggTimer – Version 1.6 released
Just some small bug fixes for this release. Someday I’ll get to the bigger features that the fans have requested. ctEggTimer v1.6 for Winders ctEggTimer v1.6 for Linux
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RegEx fun in Real Studio
I’ve always been inspired by the power of regular expressions … it’s just that I’ve never really needed them for anything extensive. I could always hack my way around the simple string replacements in the programming language I was using. Today was different, however. I am working on an application that needs to validate a [...]
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