Gordon’s Place

There’s been quite a few hints recently on the PEG that some form of OO is coming in the next ( 10.1 ) release. This morning this message put a little more meat on the bones. There’s obviously a while to go yet until we see whether this is what actually gets delivered and what [...]

My latest project is just starting to get up to speed and it looks probable that it’s going to give me my first opportunity to build an Enterprise Service Bus. It’s still too early for me to be completely clear on the architecture we’re going to implement, but I’m getting torn into David Chappell’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]