We are about to release the next major version of the PPJ Framework. It will be named PPJ Framework 2009. It will include a state-of-the-art RibbonBar component, a robust and comprehensive skinning engine, and native LINQ support for dynamic arrays (SalArray class) and our Table Window con...

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I hate sales and marketing. I'm a technical guy. I like writing software and the certainty that an algorithm will work as designed until the end of time, or someone else introduces a bug... Fuzzy stuff doesn't sit well with me. For us "technical guys" if a particular feature doesn't work, well... i...

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Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Some say that this is just the definition of denial or stupidity which may evolve into insanity. Denial and stupidity (and sometimes insanity) can be permanent or temp...

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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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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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