Enterprise Code Signing for iOS in Xojo
There’s been a feedback report (47975) for several years asking for the ability to use enterprise code signing certificates for building our Xojo iOS applications. So far nothing from Xojo but there...
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Formatted Text Control 3.2.1
BKeeney Software has released version 3.2.1 of the Formatted Text Control, a canvas based word processing control for Xojo Mac OS X and Windows applications. The FTC is an alternative to the built-in...
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Don’t Overuse Variants
At XDC 2019 my session was titled Xojo Design Mistakes (the alternate but way longer title was ‘Thankfully time travel doesn’t exist or my future self might travel back and murder my younger self for...
View ArticleAbout WeakRefs
Long-time Xojo user Kem Tekinay created a wonderful post today on the Xojo Forums on WeakRef and where and how you would use them. Highly recommended reading at...
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Exception Handling
At XDC 2019 my session was titled Xojo Design Mistakes (the alternate but way longer title was ‘Thankfully time travel doesn’t exist or my future self might travel back and murder my younger self for...
View ArticleTest Data
At XDC 2019 my session was titled Xojo Design Mistakes (the alternate but way longer title was ‘Thankfully time travel doesn’t exist or my future self might travel back and murder my younger self for...
View ArticleNotarizing Your Xojo Apps
The release of macOS 10.15 Catalina is fast approaching. One of the new things that Apple has done in this release is increase the security even more. No longer is simply code signing your app good...
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Xojo 2019 R2: API 2.0 is Here
Xojo 2019 Release 2 arrived this week, and to say that this is a massive release would be an understatement. Among a large number of bug fixes and IDE enhancements is the first release of API 2.0....
View ArticleI’m Tired
I’ve not been blogging very much lately. This summer was very busy with a lot of traveling including a trip to France to join my son who was studying in Lyon. We camped at several music festivals in...
View ArticleI’m Not Xojo’s Target Audience. Is Anyone?
I took the time out of my schedule to reach out to Xojo this week to discuss the issues I have with API 2.0 and other topics. It was a fruitful, if somewhat disappointing, conversation with Geoff....
View ArticleRuminations on API 2.0
I took some time this week to really work with API 2.0. I took a generic ActiveRecord project and converted it to the new API. It wasn’t long before I found a showstopper bug with DateTime and...
View ArticleCustomers For Life
I highly recommend you read/watch this post: https://socialtriggers.com/lose-customers-alienate-clients/ I’ve been doing consulting work for over sixteen years and a vast majority of it using Xojo....
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Comparing Lazarus to Xojo
In my search for Xojo alternatives I was pointed to Lazarus https://www.lazarus-ide.org which is a cross-platform IDE that uses a Delphi-compatible language (i.e. object Pascal). I was pretty happy to...
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Xojo 2019 Release 2.1
Xojo 2019 Release 2.1 hit the web today. If you are using R2 and any of API 2.0 this dot release is a must for you. I almost would have almost preferred this release to be called R3. The biggest...
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RAD Studio vs Xojo
In my quest to find a Xojo alternative I came across RAD Studio https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio that is owned by Embarcadero. RAD Studio can work with C++ or Delphi (object Pascal)...
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Xojo 2019 Release 3
Xojo 2019 Release 3 hit the internet today. It’s only been three weeks since R2 was released and while this release has a number of bug fixes that are important this release is mostly about iOS. R3...
View ArticleChasing Unicorns
I’ve been on the search, recently, for alternatives to Xojo. I’ve done some basic research into Lazarus and RAD Studio and both came up short in a variety of ways that you can read about in past...
View ArticleXojo: VB For the Mac
Last week we asked the question “How Did You Find Xojo?” A vast majority (60%) of the responses said web search of some kind was how they found out about Xojo (or REALbasic or Real Studio). Some...
View ArticleDatabases and Xojo API 2.0 And Why I’m not Using it Yet
Now that API 2.0 is more or less been through two releases (2019 R2.1 and 2019 R3) many Xojo developers are starting to poke around with API 2.0 in their database applications. There are many things...
View ArticleXojo MVP’s
Xojo announced today the creation of the Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) advisory board. More information here: https://www.xojo.com/mvp/ Having ‘known’ these five Xojo developers for many years...
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