Where go thou, UX?

Posted by on Jan 10, 2013 in Blog, Mobile Programming | 0 comments

A colleague, Alain Stouder of Smartway, shared a link to an interesting article by Bret Victor, “A Brief Rant On the Future Of Interactive Design“. The article intends to make us think about our tools and what technology might become to better serve our needs. As I read I got to thinking about the work of Edward Tufte and Don Norman. Sure enough, the rant included links to other...

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PHP undefined index and the common app

Posted by on Aug 20, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

There is a PHP error message so common that the web-o-sphere is littered with literally thousands of posts asking what it means. Dozens of WordPress plugins are affected as well as untold numbers of other applications written in PHP. I encountered this error in PHP apps so often that I have avoided PHP with almost a religious fervor. Today I think I understand the problem. The PHP user base is...

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French Omnis Developers meet Molu Software Update

Posted by on Mar 5, 2012 in Blog, Enterprise Software, Mobile Programming, Omnis, Products, Software Tools | 0 comments

Jacques Zemron will demonstrate the Molu Software Update service to the French Omnis Developers meeting under way today and tomorrow. Molu Software Update is a web service that provides quick and timely updates of applications written in Omnis Studio from TigerLogic. The service enables the applications to add and update code, database and related files, as well as providing the developer with...

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ODB Admin Tool updated

Posted by on Feb 16, 2012 in Blog, Omnis, Software Tools | 0 comments

Alan has been working hard on upgrading his application to Omnis Studio v5, which is all unicode. Part of this effort is to update the Omnis Data Bridge Administration Tool to support Mac OS X Lion. You can download the latest by logging onto the issue tracker. Once there, set the Project Selector to the ODB Admin Tool project, and click on Docs. Add comments and questions to issue 2474. Add new...

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ODB Admin Tool policy updated

Posted by on Jul 18, 2011 in Blog, Omnis, Software Tools | 0 comments

The ODB Admin Tool is a software module for applications based on the Omnis Studio development kit. It provides a tidy user experience for those using the built-in Omnis database technology in a multi-user setting. The project is open source, but development is privately managed. In the past we asked developers to pay US$300 if they deployed it. Over time it became clear that the requirement...

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