Archive for April, 2005



More GUI Smartobjects

Here’s another couple of screenshots of GUI only smartobjects from my current projects. The upper one is a browse object which has been modified to overlay dynamic checkboxes on any logical columns, porbably the most complex object I’ve developed so far. The lower picture shows an alternative paging mechanism we developed in order to handle [...]

Smart or Dumb

A couple of years ago, a project I was contracting on took the decision to implement the next release using ADM2 / Smartobjects. I had no influence in making that decision and, frankly, wasn’t too excited by the idea. I’d flirted with ADM1 a few years before that and had pretty much made up my [...]

VIM and Progress

Do you use Vi? I use VIM ( Vi IMproved ) for editing a lot of my Progress code. I’m trying to make a point of it these days for editing my text as well. Anyway, there’s a lot of power behind VIM and as you get to know some of it’s tricks and functionality [...]

Searching the PEG

I’ve knocked up a plugin for Firefox which lets you search the PEG from the search drop down ( next to the address drop down ). You can see what it looks like in the picture at the top of this page. To install it, download this file, extract the contents into the searchplugins sub-directory [...]

First Post and Agenda

Now that I’ve done all the fun bits, got a new domain setup, installed WordPress, messsed around with the settings, the templates and the plugins, I guess I’m going to have to write something. So, it would seem sensible to kick-off with an agenda and and introduction. What’s this blog all about?

I hope the title [...]