Development

Brief description of the current software development stack / set of tools at IOS Indian Ocean Software Ltd.

As a software craftsman you are constantly learning on a daily basis. Either to improve and broaden your existing knowledge or to deep dive into new stuff.

This article describes the steps about how to integrate and make use of Bernard's lightbox class in combination with _Screen in Visual FoxPro.

German company BvL Bürosysteme Vertriebs GmbH bought all rights of Active FoxPro Pages from the insolvency stock. Together with their partners Christof Wollenhaupt and Jochen Kirstätter BvL will continue with development, support and marketing of AFP in the upcoming weeks.

Modifications for Ultimate Paypal Donations Module by JoomlaSpan to provide any kind of PayPal donation element on your site is really easy and straight forward.

This article provides some minor improvements to the Joomla! extension HP Router. Installation and modification is straight forward and no struggles at all.

Durch das Verständnis des grundsätzlichen Aufbaus von ASP.NET und dessen Ablaufsequenz ergaben sich mehrere Ansätze. Dennoch habe ich mich in Bezug auf 2.0 für die Entwicklung eines HttpHandlers entschieden. Das Grundkonzept dabei ist ziemlich easy: Man nehme das Interface IHttpHandler und code ein paar Zeilen hinein, passe die Web.config noch ein wenig an und voilá: Funktioniert.

Verwendung von Aufrufen in der Windows 32 API zur Erweiterung nativer Funktionen in Visual FoxPro. Darstellung einer Alternative für die MessageBox().

Joomla!s own archive functionality works in a similar way but sadly I experienced own mayor drawback: Archived articles are not part of the internal search engine anymore and therefore results are not displayed.

Working with 'Parameter objects' instead of parameters Yesterday I stumbled over a good article in German language - Arbeiten mit Parameterobjekten - about using a parameter object rather than using parameters to pass information to functions and methods. As you know, I like this concept very much and actually already

Private projects added (at least started...) I couldn't stop... There were still some tweaks and fine-tunings to do on this blog after I uploaded the new template and CSS files. But for the moment, I'm okay with the current visual outfit of this blog. After I finished with the re-design

Transfer of articles from old blog database After the successful transfer of my articles from Foxite, I finally converted another bunch of articles from my old blog software. The process itself was quite easy: query database, convert records to XML and write out files.The interesting part is that the original