by david | Sep 24, 2020 | Technology
Windows Desktop in the Cloud Every so often some technology or provider comes along with a piece of tech that just works. This has prompted this post. The problem -: a customer wants to host some desktop technology in the cloud. Plenty of solutions, some I have used...
by david | Apr 9, 2020 | Technology
rest api A long time since I posted. Strange times as we are all in lock down. Not a huge difference for me as I generally work from my home office, but the peace and quiet, no planes and few cars is a pleasant change. Fortunately, software projects do continue and...
by david | Jul 19, 2018 | Technology
Yet again we have been exposed to a software platform upgrade that we assumed would not change existing behaviour. A very foolish viewpoint.. We also released a lot of new functionality on top of the new platform, compounding the number of changes and the release of...
by david | Apr 4, 2018 | Technology
Colouring a Label in OpenXava based on a Field Value OpenXava takes the pain of screen layout and consistency away from you. Yes, there are various ways of grouping and using tabs, dropdowns etc. but they are all coded from the entity definition. This is a huge...
by david | Sep 8, 2017 | Technology
Changing OpenXava Database OpenXava takes me back a few years to the days of modelling your application and generating out the database and application. This was the domain of the now defunct CASE tools. OpenXava uses the Java Persistence API, via Hibernate to access...
