Blog from October, 2013

Last time Steve Parker figured out how to make The Dummy Table Technique work. Using this technique is a bit different than when using it with full blown SQL (i.e., the kind with a dedicated engine). Not only do you need to declare the dummy table in your dictionary but you have to ensure that the SQLite table physically exists. So what happens if the dictionary definition needs to change? 

When last heard from, your intrepid author (c'est Dr. Parker) concluded that SQLite was not a lightweight replacement for SQL. He reached this conclusion because he had tried The Dummy Table Technique and found it wanting. But that's not the end of the story... 

By request, I've moved my report on the CIDC 2013 keynote address to the public space.

Finally caught up on sleep, Dave Harms looks back at CIDC 2013.

Selected notes from the Friday sessions

• SoftVelocity's Bob Zaunere and Diego Borojovich
• Dries Driessen - Web services and WSDL files
• Gordon Holfelder - Mobile apps and Clarion web services
• Brahn Partridge - App Analytics

Other presentations included: Gordon Holfelder showing his Android app written using Sencha and talking to a NetTalk server; Arnold Young on the TSPlus thin client; Brahn Partridge showing his DevStart.io home page for the Clarion IDE; Third party appreciation and prize giveaway; and Bob Z's Q&A wrap up. 

Some notes on the Thursday sessions:

• SoftVelocity's Bob Zaunere and Diego Borojovich
• Clarion 9's new features
• Mike Gorman - Taking Data from Stovepipes to Nuclear Power Plants
• Greg Bailey - My Rules To Make a Good App Better
• Rick Martin - Continuous Integration

Other presentations included: Alexis Sigala showing an Ancroid app using a Clarion web service; John Hickey demonstrating an Clarion app on a Windows tablet; Mike Hanson on using Interfaces to communicate between layers; Mark Goldberg's tips for configuring the IDE; Greg Bailey on SQL; and Daniel Pavlic and Marko Golem on Thin@ Asteria, and all Java implementation of their popular thin client. 

Here are a few highlights from the Wednesday CIDC sessions:

• Keynote Address
• Mike Hanson - Thinking in layers
• Geoff Robinson - Code Quality
• CapeSoft's Wednesday presentation

There were four other presenter sessions: Rick Martin talked about creating app installers, Andy Wilton showed how to model collections of data in classes, Mike Hanson covered threading, and I gave a presentation on unit testing and extracting code from embeds.