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How Xojo Simplifies Full-Stack Development for Everyone

How Xojo Simplifies Full-Stack Development for Everyone

Published August 7, 2024 by Gabriel Ludosanu

The demand for skilled full-stack developers continues to grow in 2024. These developers handle both the frontend and backend of applications, ensuring a smooth user experience from start to finish. As businesses strive to deliver robust, efficient and visually appealing applications, developers and their choice of programming tools can impact the speed, scalability and overall performance of a full software solution.

Presented with choosing what development tool is best for your main, full-stack development needs, let’s discuss the benefits of Xojo development platform for your next web project. With its simplicity, flexibility, and powerful features, Xojo will help you create high-quality web applications quickly and efficiently, with the added bonus of covering backend and frontend development in the same IDE—no more language switching—while also lowering your overall costs.

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Tutorial: Create QR Codes with vCard Information

Published August 5, 2024 by Javier Menendez

It’s the 21st Century and it’s possible to share contacts with other people directly from your mobile phone, but let’s face it, business cards are still a very common way to share personal contact information.

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Using a WebDataSource to Display Millions of Rows in a WebListBox

Published August 1, 2024 by Ricardo Cruz

If you are wondering why you would use a WebDataSource for your WebListBox, this post will give you some arguments and tips for making that decision and implementing it.

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Minimizing Overhead in Xojo Applications: Techniques, Tips, and Tricks

Published July 10, 2024 by Martin T.

In the world of software development, efficiency is a central aspect. This is especially true for applications developed in Xojo. Excessive overhead can significantly impair performance and negatively affect the user experience. In this article, we will take a detailed look at what overhead is, how to identify it, and what techniques, tips, and tricks can be used to minimize it. We will particularly focus on using code profiling.

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Spotlight On: xDev Magazine

Spotlight On: xDev Magazine

Published July 8, 2024 by Xojo

Launched in the summer of 2002, xDev is a bimonthly digital publication. Every issue is packed with over 70 pages of vital information: step-by-step tutorials by Xojo experts, columns for the beginner and expert, “behind-the-scenes” postmortems of popular programs made with Xojo, fascinating interviews, handy tips, product reviews and Xojo news. Subscribers to xDev receive download links to the PDF edition via email.

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Clean Coding in Xojo: Best Practices for Writing Maintainable Code

Published July 8, 2024 by Martin T.

Clean coding is a vital aspect of software development that ensures code readability, maintainability, and scalability. In the context of Xojo, adhering to clean coding principles can significantly enhance the quality and longevity of your projects. In this blog post, we’ll explore key practices for clean coding in Xojo, including the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches, with detailed examples and explanations.

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From Iteration to Interaction with Type Casting

Published July 3, 2024 by Gabriel Ludosanu

In software development, efficiency and user experience are paramount. One powerful technique that can help achieve both is the use of type casting combined with iteration. By iterating through controls and casting them to specific types, developers can dynamically manipulate user interface elements, resulting in more responsive and interactive applications. In this article, we will explore the concepts of type casting and iteration within Xojo applications. We will break down a practical example to demonstrate how these techniques can be used to optimize form handling and enhance user interactions.

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Android Design Extensions 2.6 for Xojo 2024r2+

Published July 2, 2024 by Martin T.

Xojo 2024r2 has just been released and it’s time to update the Android Design Extension which is now available in version 2.6.

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New Database Connections

Published June 26, 2024 by William Yu

While Xojo has always supported adding database connections, the old method was far from ideal. Let’s delve into the improved approach using the new DatabaseConnection project items and explore some recent additions to our database API.

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Android: New Features and Improvements

Published June 26, 2024 by Paul Lefebvre

Although still in Beta, there have been many improvements to Android in the last few releases and in this post I’ll highlight a few things that have been added or improved starting with Xojo 2023r4 and through the recently released 2024r2.

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Year: 2024