I’ve been testing deployment of a Xojo Web Application to two inexpensive (I won’t use the word ‘cheap’ because that might give the wrong impression. They both work very well.) hosted server options: Vultr.com and DigitalOcean.com. I’ve been using DigitalOcean for a while to run some tests but I was… Read more »
I’m proud to announce that our article on “3 Paradyms for Data Access in Xojo” has been published in xDev Magazine for the Jan/Feb 2015 issue! It was great working with Scott Boss of Nocturnal Coding Monkeys on the article. I can’t post the content here, but you can pick… Read more »
Check out this page: CrashPlan App Closes In Some Linux Installations Edit the run.conf file in your CrashPlan app installation directory Default location: /usr/local/crashplan/bin/ Navigate to the end of the GUI_JAVA_OPTS section Add this line, inside the quotes: -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla Example: SRV_JAVA_OPTS=”-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dapp=CrashPlanService -DappBaseName=CrashPlan -Xms20m -Xmx512m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=300 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl=300 -Dsun.net.inetaddr.negative.ttl=0 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.negative.ttl=0… Read more »
A client recently contacted me to ask my my opinion about this piece of news: Microsoft to open source more of .NET, and bring it to Linux, Mac OS X Was I surprised? Not really. Once Ballmer was gone, MicroSoft was hinting there would be big changes. This is pretty… Read more »
My first mistake was answering the phone. Let me back up. I was railing, RAILING, on the stores that were [1] open on Thanksgiving and/or [2] opening even earlier than previous years on Thanksgiving. I was trying to shame stores into closing on Thanksgiving for next year. I promised to… Read more »
I was listening to the Linux Action Show and they highlighted the application “Music on Console” a.k.a. MOC. I took it for a spin and was hooked. MOC was in the Ubuntu repos so adding it was easy via the Software Manager. You can also sudo apt-get install mocp. To… Read more »
The last release of version 9.0 of my beloved Visual Foxpro was way back in in 2004 and last updated in 2007. Right around the time that they announced the last version, Visual Foxpro peaked on the Tiobe Index at #13 in April of 2006. After that time, Visual Foxpro… Read more »
I’m proud to announce that our article on “Cheap Xojo Web Application Hosting” has made the cover of xDev Magazine for the Nov/Dec issue! I can’t post the content here, but you can pick up your copy for less than $10 for a single issue, or less if you subscribe… Read more »
Like many people that I’ve been hearing about recently, we got hit by some Internet usage overages. Currently, I’m on the Blast Plus package with Comcast. This provides for 300GB per month. That sounds like a lot, until you think of what streaming video adds up to. Comcast is charging… Read more »
I previously posted a slightly tongue-in-cheek posting about a hypothetical support call for the Windows 8 user interface. I liked the posting but I thought it needed a follow-up that summarizes my thoughts about Windows 8 UI. What I was trying to say: Never have an invisible control. Especially one… Read more »
