 Sig Report April 2008
Falling into two main themes, PDAs and the new VDF 2008 release, this VDF SIG contained much to interest the VDF based developer. Several in the audience saw immediate potential for PDA development, while at the other end of the day, the Subversion off site source code management system attracted interest as a simple solution to never losing source code.
PDA Development - the Asckey Experience
Martin Pincott and Paul Anthony, Asckey Data Services Ltd
PDAs
While data collection using hand held devices has been around for quite a long time now, the development of both the devices and the supporting infrastructure now seems to...
PDA Development with Momote
Simon Monk, Momote.
After some research, Asckey Data Services settled on Momote as technology partner:-
Based on an open XML architecture, the Momote MX solution facilitates rapid design, development, deployment and support of mobile applications...
Pen and Paper - a PDA Alternative?
Pete Mustoe, Focus INet, a long term VDF SIG contributor presented a different approach to data capture, one that can be much more comfortable for technophobe users, being based on familiar Pen and Paper. It is particularly suitable where the data capture...
Visual Dataflex 2008 - now released
Released on 14 April, VDF 2008, otherwise VDF v14 (what happened to v13, don't ask!) was the subject of Vincent Ooorpsrong's (Data Access Europe) session.
Vincent's presentation was based on two of the presentations at the DISD...
A Codejock Framework
A late addition to the agenda, Martin Pincott presented the work that a group (Ian Smith, Peter Bragg and Martin) have been doing to extend Code Jock support.
To backtrack a little, the Codejock components have become a major feature of the...
Self Updating VDF Applications
Peter Bragg, Care Data Systems
If you prefer to keep your VDF applications installed on the local PC, then updating lots of these can be a lot of hard work. Peter has developed a method to allow a VDF application to compare its version number...
Subversion - enabling Multi-developer cooperation
Subversion is an open source implementation of an excellent version control and file sharing system that can run across the Internet. Pak Chan (Asckey Data Services) gave a presentation of Subversion, and its uses. The PPT here contains a number...
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