http://www.ianmjones.net A developer, in so many ways Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:42:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If I had an iPhone 3G, what apps would I have installed by now? AIM: Got to get me some realtime chat. BA Flights: It's always a pain trying to find a place to sit down and wait where you can keep tabs on the status board for your delayed flight, hopefully ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F11%2Fif-i-had-an-iphone-3g%2F&seed_title=If+I+had+an+iPhone+3G%26%238230%3B How about this, some of my REALbasic code is being used by REAL Software in their REALbasic IDE! Aaron Ballman recently blogged about how they are now capturing any exceptions thrown in the REALbasic IDE to be submitted as bug reports to their FogBugz install. Turns out that they are using ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2008%2F05%2F26%2Frbscoutsubmit-is-being-used-in-realbasic-ide%2F&seed_title=RBScoutSubmit+is+being+used+in+REALbasic+IDE I've moved my RBScoutSubmit REALbasic classes onto Google Code in a project called rbscoutsubmit. If you're looking for some simple open source (MIT licensed) classes that enable submitting crash logs from your REALbasic application to your FogBugz bug tracker, please check out the rbscoutsubmit project. There's a download available of the latest ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F06%2Frbscoutsubmit-now-on-google-code%2F&seed_title=RBScoutSubmit+now+on+Google+Code I've moved my UNIXCrypt REALbasic module onto Google Code in a project called rbunixcrypt. If you're looking for an open source (MIT licensed) module that enables verification of UNIX crypt style passwords, please check out the rbunixcrypt project. There's a download available of the latest version, and as with most Google Code ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F05%2Funixcrypt-for-realbasic-now-on-google-code%2F&seed_title=UNIXCrypt+for+REALbasic+now+on+Google+Code Woohoo, my favourite development platform(s) have just had their big release, Adobe Flex 3 and AIR (Adobe Interactive Runtime) were released just a few hours ago (while I was sleeping soundly). Go read all about Flex 3, AIR and how you can build wonderful desktop AIR apps with Flex. And if you're ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F25%2Fadobe-flex-3-and-air-now-live%2F&seed_title=Adobe+Flex+3+and+AIR+now+live%21 "A developer, in so many ways", that's my new tag line for this here blog. Seeing as my microISV endeavor is currently on hold, I figured the old "So, now I'm an ISV..." didn't cut it any longer, even though technically I still have one foot in the game, and have ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F30%2Fnew-tag-line-simpler-theme%2F&seed_title=New+tag+line%2C+simpler+theme. The festive holidays are a dangerous time of year, spending time with family and friends and generally having a good time away from your computer can be disastrous for an ongoing project. This year, it's been doubly disastrous for CaseDetective, not only has development time been non-existent and support reduced as ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F03%2Fcasedetective-development-on-hold%2F&seed_title=CaseDetective+Development+On+Hold I'll let the release notes tell the story... Changes In CaseDetective 1.3.4 Released 2007-12-13 Bug Fix: Error while creating indexs on the Attachment, Cases or CaseEvents table. In some rare cases CaseDetective could not create indexes on it's cache database due to non-unique data in a primary key, this has now been fixed. Bug Fix: ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2007%2F12%2F13%2Fcasedetective-134-released%2F&seed_title=CaseDetective+1.3.4+released Oops, turns out CaseDetective 1.3.3 wasn't so good for all database types and versions, so I've pulled it. I'm working on CaseDetective 1.3.4, but it's a little trickier than I thought due to what SQL syntax is and isn't supported across different versions of Access, SQL Server and MySQL. It may take ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2007%2F12%2F11%2Foops-casedetective-133-pulled-working-on-casedetective-134%2F&seed_title=Oops%2C+CaseDetective+1.3.3+pulled%2C+working+on+CaseDetective+1.3.4. Dumm, dumm, dumm, another one bites the dust, clap clap! CaseDetective 1.3.3 has been released with just one iccle fix. In very rare conditions CaseDetective would fail to get either attachments, cases or case events due to a "duplicate values in unique index" error. There was a little bit of Cartesian (black) magic ... http://www.ianmjones.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ianmjones.net%2Farchives%2F2007%2F12%2F07%2Fcasedetective-133-for-fogbugz-released%2F&seed_title=CaseDetective+1.3.3+for+FogBugz+released.