Implicit Instance is Evil
Xojo has had Implicit Instances of Windows and WebPages from the very beginning and I was so happy when they gave us the option of using it or not. I can tell you from experience debugging newbie apps...
View ArticleShorts Report Designer 1.5.3
We released version 1.5.3 of BKS Shorts today. A number of bug fixes, changes, and additions were added. The change list below. I will be the showing off Shorts at the next Xojo webinar on February...
View ArticleDon’t Convert Your App to Xojo
New Xojo developers are often sorely disappointed with Xojo when first coming to the language. Why? The complaints are varied but they usually say things like “<insert part here> doesn’t work...
View ArticleXojo 2015 R4.1
Xojo issued a dot release today for Xojo 2015 R4. Release 4.1 fixes some relatively important bugs and you should update to it. Even though this was, obviously, released in 2016 any licenses that...
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Shorts Report Designer Release 1.5.4
We released version 1.5.4 of the Report Designer today. One of the bigger changes is it ships with a web example of how to take a report definition and display it for a web app. This affects a...
View ArticleUpcoming Xojo Events
Next Wednesday, February 24th, I will be meeting with Xojo developers in the Palm Coast, Florida area. The location isn’t set yet, so check in the forums at...
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Imposter Syndrome
Today I’m going to talk about the Imposter Syndrome. That feeling that says everyone knows you’re faking it and they’re going to find out, at any minute, that you’re a fraud. You’ll be cast down into...
View ArticleMicrosoft Buys Xamarin and SQL Server Goes Cross-Platform
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in the cross-platform development world. First, Microsoft announced that they were purchasing Xamarin. Xamarin and Microsoft have always been friendly and...
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Shorts Report Designer Release 1.6.0
BKeeney Software is proud to announce Version 1.6.0 of BKS Shorts with Report Designer, our reporting classes and tool for Xojo. Shorts allows you to integrate a report designer into your own Xojo...
View ArticleISA and Casting
One of the things that’s just not talked about much in the Xojo documentation unless you know where it is located is object casting. ISA and Casting is so useful it’s worth devoting some time talking...
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Shorts Report Designer 1.6.1
BKeeney Software is proud to announce Version 1.6.1 of BKS Shorts with Report Designer, our reporting classes and tool for Xojo. Shorts allows you to integrate a report designer into your own Xojo...
View ArticleXojo 2016 Release 1.1
Xojo 2016 Release 1.1 hit the web today and this version should be the one you’re using from now on. This dot release fixes a number of critical and important things. First off, web app compile times...
View ArticleThere is No Easy Button
Most of us want an easy button when it comes to software development. Out of the dark ages when you literally had to code everything yourself came the frameworks that did a lot of the dirty work for...
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Shorts Report Designer 1.6.2
BKeeney Software is proud to announce Version 1.6.2 of BKS Shorts with Report Designer, our reporting classes and tool for Xojo. Shorts allows you to integrate a report designer into your own Xojo...
View ArticleViews are Your Friend
One of the challenges I see regularly in my work as a database administrator is finding a way to bridge the gap between the well-normalized physical implementation of a database behind an application...
View ArticleChanges at BKeeney Software
BKeeney Software, Inc. is proud to welcome Tim Parnell as the newest addition to our full-time staff. Tim will be working on several high profile client projects for BKeeney in addition to lending his...
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Xojo Windows Application Runtime Requirements
One of the strengths of Xojo is that it creates a no requirements executable package. For Mac OS X it puts all required libraries and resources in the application bundle and for Windows and Linux it...
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BKS Shorts Version 1.7.0 Released
BKeeney Software is pleased to announce a new release of BKeeney Shorts, their Reporting tool for Xojo. BKS Shorts allows users to embed a report designer into their desktop applications and render...
View ArticleCelebrate National Bikini Day
July 5th is National BKeeney…er…Bikini Day. In celebration we’re offering all of our products at 30% off for the next 48 hours. Apply the coupon BIKINI in our online store to receive the discount on...
View ArticleXojo 2016 Release 2
Last week Xojo 2016 Release 2 was unleashed to the masses. There are a lot of changes and tweaks in this version and if you are creating web or iOS applications there is a lot of like about this...
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