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Contractor Job Costing App Lesson 3
After working on the application for several days now I have come to the decision that there needs to be two applications working together to have the app meet the extensive requirements. This lead me make a change in the look and functionality of the Contractor Job Costing App. One is the I also decided…
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Contract Proposal Mgr:
Hello; Thanks for stopping by. To start off our project we need to determine exactly what the app will do. Sounds simple but if you have ever tired to write a design document from scratch you will find it is complicated. To ease my anxiety I like to start with broad strokes. For example, I…
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Programming Developers Diary – 14
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in Append, Changing Object Property Values, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, Developers Diary, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, Fetch_Last, fetch_Next, Form as Dialog, Form Design, Form Load Method, Functions, Games, Having Fun With Graphics, Hot Spots, How To, Left, List Object, List Objects, Object Method, ON Change, On Event, On Fetch, On Push, Operations, Programming A Chess Game, Right, Right, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, Using Images on Forms, word, XBasic Tips and TricksFebruary 27 2017 This past weekend I once again spent time working on my chess program. As you may recall, if you have been following along, I last discussed using collections as a means of determining the attack path and squares of white to determine the best possible defense against said attack. I discovered two…
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Programming Developers Diary – 09
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in Collections, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, Developers Diary, Form as Dialog, Form Design, Form Load Method, Functions, Games, Having Fun With Graphics, Hot Spots, How To, Occurs, On Push, Programming A Chess Game, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksFebruary 1, 2017 Hello everyone. As stated yesterday I will be looking at using the collection function in Alpha Software. When I started the discussion about the chess game I stated one of the weaknesses of the current game is handling check. In the example below, Black checks white. The only activity the program needs…
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Programming Developers Diary – 08
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in batch_Begin, Changing Object Property Values, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, Developers Diary, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, Form Load Method, Functions, Games, Having Fun With Graphics, Hot Spots, How To, List Objects, Occurs, On Event, On Push, Programming A Chess Game, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using If Else if, Using Images on Forms, word, Writing Array’s, XBasic Tips and TricksJanuary 30, 2017 Good morning everyone. Picking up where we left off last week we were examining why the current logic for our chess program was weak and ineffective. As I was reviewing the existing code for this post, I once again got drawn into the development of the game. I actually started this post…
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Programming Developers Diary – 07
January 24, 2017 Hello everyone. Hope you had a nice weekend. If you have been following along you know we did a fun project ‘Designing a Chess Game in Alpha Software’. It was fun for me at least and I hope all of you liked it or at least found some value in it. The…
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Programming Developer’s Diary – 06
January 20th, 2017 Hello everyone. This morning I had an online training session with the client who received the receivables upgrade and it went very well. I left the session telling the person to send an email with all adjustments or changes they wished to see no matter how small and I just got a…
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Programming Developers Diary – 03
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in .queryrun, Declaring Variables on a Form, Design Document, Desktop Application, Developers Diary, External_Record_Content_Get, Fetch, fetch_Next, Form Design, Handling Errors, How To, On Event, On Push, Table Open Method, Tables and Sets, Using goto label, Using If Else if, Using Query’s, XBasic Tips and TricksJanuary 13,2017 Hello everyone. I have completed the receivables module upgrade for my customer and did the thing I hate most but must do which is check my work. Typically I test my work as I go along but those test work on the norm rather than the exception. We all know in the business…
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TakeCharge App Manager Lesson 04: Time and Billing
Hello everyone and Merry Christmas If you have been following my blog on programming in Alpha Software, you know it has been several months since my last post. In fact, it has been close to half a year. I make no excuses or offer now apologies. It is what it is. After the New Year…
Custome Database Design with Alpha Software 