Chrome 2.0 and Browser Compatibility
Chrome 2.0 renders some tables with empty content. Here’s the fix and why the NetQuarry platform insulates its clients from browser compatibility problems.
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IssueTrak Movie
We’ve just uploaded a short, recorded demo of building the IssueTrak application. The demo is available from the homepage (click on the large, friendly blue button) or by (clicking here).
How To Configure SSL Host Headers in IIS 6
At NetQuarry, we write software. We sell a software product – the NetQuarry Platform – that we wrote and own and we support the customers that use our product. Software. That’s it. So, it may seem a little surprising that a blog about IIS and SSL is even here, and more surprising, especially if you [...]
Master Pages, AJAX, and Javascript
We recently decided to add support for MasterPages to the NetQuarry Enterprise Application Platform. The platform provides a set of .aspx “templates” that are used to host content in various configurations. The standard templates include Wizard, Console, and several flavors of Subform templates as well as support for custom templates. The basic idea is to [...]
Fresh Beginnings
One of the things I hear myself saying nearly all the time sounds something like “if I were starting over…” If you make a living writing software, building websites, building databases, or writing reports you must have, on a regular basis, one of these moments. For me, the reason I feel this way is because [...]
Are we there yet?
The thing that always surprises us is the fact that we have to do much of what we have to do to produce our product. The complexity of enterprise application development is startling. You basically need to be an expert on about 10 things just to get started.
VisualBasic
It occurs to me, and not just because we write and sell a .NET product, that a good number of owners of large VB 6.0 applications are about to become a little nervous. As part of a proposal for one of these companies, I was tracking down the support dates and end-of-life statements by Microsoft about VB 6.0. It says, basically, that the Visual Basic runtime (or an updated version) will ship will Windows Vista and will be supported fully for 5 years, and not so fully for 5 more years after that.
Web Projects and .NET 2.0
I’ve spent a frustrating day (again) attempting to setup a web project that is a sub-project of our main application. For whatever reason, I can’t reference code in a referenced assembly unless I load it as a control reference and, at least in most cases, copy the referenced assembly to the main /bin folder.
Picklists
We”ve spent a bunch of time solving the problem of vocabulary lists for a database application. A vocabulary list is one of those tables that have a key (typically an integer or a GUID) and some text. The “key” (primary key in DBMS-speak) is referenced by a column in a more important table. Most of the time, the end-user selects this key by choosing an item via a drop down list box that has some human readable text and the application stores the item’s “key” into the database. We call the object that solves this problem a Picklist.
Architecture
Keeping at the forefront in any industry requires that companies cannot only imagine great new products, but can get them from the vision stage into full production in the most efficient possible manner. The NetQuarry platform provides an engine for driving innovation, enabling products to be designed quickly, collaboratively, and iteratively.
