Blog about the Xojo programming language and IDE
On Monday February 29th, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the new Raspberry Pi 3. This updated Pi has some significant improvements over the Pi 2, including:
That last bullet point is notable because it means that Xojo is also fully compatible with the new Raspberry Pi 3!
Comments closedPaul talks with Tim Parnell, creator of several Xojo add-ons and active Xojo forum contributor.
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Comments closedMaybe you’ve heard the term SQL injection and how it can allow unintended database access. Here’s how a SQL Injection works and what you can do to avoid it.
1 CommentA couple years ago I wrote a post about Going Rogue with Xojo. It proved to be rather popular and I got some great stories back from how people were able to use Xojo in their organizations.
Comments closedHow do you format and organize your code? I’m here to tell you that your way is wrong and my way is right 🙂
Comments closedPaul talks with Arthur Couture and Tom Rupprecht of ICAL Systems, a consulting company that does enterprise software development using Xojo.
Comments closedIf you work in the technologiy industry, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Daily WTF site. Their fun stories about technology gone wrong makes it one of my favorite web sites.
Comments closedAs defined on Wikipedia, Automatic Reference Counting (or ARC) is a “memory management enhancement where the burden of keeping track of an object’s reference count is lifted from the programmer to the compiler.”
With object-oriented programming, each new object you create takes up space in memory. This memory needs to be managed somehow. In the beginning, this management of memory was left entirely to the programmer, such as with C++ or originally with Objective-C.
Comments closedWhat is Slackbot?
Slack has an API called “slash commands” that lets a user type a slash (/) followed by a command name in order to perform a special action. For example, Slack has many built-in slash commands, one example is /help. Here’s how you can easily add your own slash commands using a Xojo web app and the HandleSpecialURL (or HandleURL) method.
Your slash command makes an HTTP request to your Xojo web service app. The web services does its thing and then returns the result back to Slack to display.
On Tuesday, January 12th Microsoft is ending support for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10.
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