Every now and then I get requests from my users to add a very special feature to our ERP software which, as they claim, is so important that they are dying to have it the next day. Years ago when I was less experienced (and a little younger too) I tried to implement things as they were requested an...

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Lately I have been working on integrating an advanced skinning engine into the PPJ Framework for our next mahor release. There are many different solutions out there, but I was looking for the best possible one and had to do some research and to define some criteria for the screening. Here are...

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Recently my old keyboard broke and I thought I'd get myself a nice new one. I bought a cordess Logitech keyboard/mouse combination and it works very well. There's one thing, though. I use the same programming environment since many years and I learned various keyboard shortcuts in the...

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During our daily work to improve our Gupta migration C# library (the PPJ Framework) and support to partners working on projects, we usually encounter a good number of bugs trying to migrate to .NET. They are coming from the customers' original Gupta code and have been hidden for a long time. In man...

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I was working on an old application of mine the other day, and when I say old I mean very old. It's a SqlWindows 5.0.2 application running against a 5.2.0 SqlBase on Netware 3.12. Development started back in 1993, it was finished in 1995 and runs more or less without problems ever since. I had to a...

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