Thursday, March 11th, 2010

SQL Yoga 1.0.1 Released with New IDE Plugin

New Features and Bug Fixes SQL Yoga 1.0.1 is now available for immediate download from the SQL Yoga site. The new version has a number of bug fixes as well as some new features. Two new time-saving commands have been added to the library that will speed up creating and updating records: sqlquery_create sqlquery_update Both of these commands allow you to pass in arrays with the values you want to insert/update in the database. For a full list of changes please see the change log. New Plugin A new IDE plugin is now included with the SQL Yoga distribution. The plugin automates a few tasks and provides ...

New Dates For Professional Application Development Course and Free Session Sponsored By RunRev

New Course Dates Now that everyone at Blue Mango Learning Systems is back home and settled in after attending the RunRevLive conference in Edinburgh we are ready for another round of Professional Application Development with Revolution. This is our course that teaches you about application development techniques in Revolution. We start with how to organize your development environment and go through releasing installers and updaters. The course uses the open-source GLX Application Framework as a foundation to illustrate various principles. The dates for the next course are September 29th and October 1st. There are two one-hour sessions each day. Free Session We are also ...

GLX Application Framework 1.1 Released

Revolution is an incredible cross-platform development tool for quickly creating programs that run multiple platforms. But creating an application with Revolution still requires that the developer create their own libraries to perform many common application tasks. The GLX Application Framework provides the underlying infrastructure you need for creating professional-grade applications on Mac and Windows. This allows you to focus on making your application unique and valuable instead of wasting time setting up mundane features such as undo support. Using the framework saves you time and makes you more productive. To find out more visit the GLX Application Framework page in our Revolution ...

Revolution Data Grid Webinar Posted

Two weeks ago we hosted a webinar discussing the new Data Grid control available in Revolution 3.5. Revolution is the cross-platform development environment that we write all of our desktop software in and ScreenSteps uses the Data Grid control extensively. In the webinar we show how we integrated the Data Grid into ScreenSteps 2.5 and share some tips and tricks that will prove useful to anyone working with Data Grids. The webinar is about 70 minutes long with a little over half of the time spent presenting and the reset spent answering questions from attendees. To watch the recording just visit ...

A Little Revolution Does A Developer Good

Round here we develop all of our desktop applications using Revolution. I recently attended the RunRevLive 08 conference in Las Vegas where one of the speakers was Robert Cailliau, the co-developer of the web. Robert spoke on “Programming systems and the birth of the Web”. Following a very interesting presentation on how the web came about he discussed some characteristics he thought a good programming language should have: You should not need the reference manual lying open next to you. A good assignment operator. The less "swear" characters the better. These are characters from the top of the keyboard and are like the ...