David J Murray Dev

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Useful techniques for UniVerse and SB+

Cult of Excel

I have written about the use of MS-Excel before (see related posts at end), so an article on the weirder uses of MS-Excel is not out of order- http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9211699/Use_Microsoft_Excel_for_Nearly_Everything . As most IT people have found, I...

DRY Subroutines

Feb 26, 2011

The principle of DRY has been around for sometime. When applied to the PICK/U2 environment, there are two main methods...

Friendfeed and EDA

Feb 17, 2011

The new release of UniVerse - 11.1 - now has the EDA capabilities that have been in Unidata for some time. But, is...

Continuation of KISS

Nov 30, 2010

From an email today, I browsed this article regarding when to use the MS-Windows Power Shell. This is a continuation...

KISS

November 29, 2010 | Linux, Python, Shell scripting, Techniques

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. Yup, just revisited that one again. I recently purchased a HDHomeRun network TV ...

MS-Access 2010 and Calculated Fields

October 31, 2010 | 4GL, Ideas, MS-Access, MVDBS, Techniques, U2 DB, UniVerse I-Types

The new version of MS-Access (2010) has the ability for calculated fields. You may already know this concept as ...

New Version of download from cedarville

May 8, 2008 | CSV, Freebies, MVDBS, Techniques, U2, U2 XML, XML

Cedarville University maintains a rather useful utility for exporting data from U2. Version 7.30 has just been ...

Where is U2 Support?

March 29, 2008 | Ideas, MVDBS, Techniques, U2

Well, the U2 mail lists are up and running again. It appears that a technical issue brought the mail server down ...

Mail lists down

March 28, 2008 | MVDBS, Techniques, UniVerse, UniVerse I-Types

The U2 mail lists have been down now since 24th March 08. A couple of emails came through this morning, so I hope ...

Getting Real: The Book by 37signals

March 3, 2008 | Books, Coding, Free, Freebies, Ideas, Techniques

I am currently reading the latest copy of the wired magazine. An interesting article about the company ...

U2UG Board Announced

February 22, 2008 | MVDBS, Techniques

This week the results from the U2 User Group (U2UG) board elections were announced. Quoting from the email sent ...

More PHP Madness

January 23, 2008 | Code, Free, Ideas, MVDBS, PHP, Techniques, UniVerse

This is a continuation from a previous post - php-in-universe Well, I have been going mad with the PHP stuff. I ...

PHP in UniVerse

January 10, 2008 | Code, Ideas, MVDBS, PHP Coding, Publications, Techniques, Technologies, U2 XML

After reading the articles in the December 2007 php Architect magazine, I thought that I should be able to get ...

Get an F for History

November 21, 2007 | Code, MVDBS, Techniques, U2, UniVerse, UniVerse I-Types

As I am in the process of moving, I am in the middle of the 'clean and junk' routine. I found a very old fax, ...

APP.PROGS – Open Tools

November 5, 2007 | Code, Freebies, MVDBS, Techniques, UniVerse

Within the uv account there is a file called APP.PROGS which contains a number of interesting routines. The file ...

What actually are multi-values?

October 10, 2007 | MVDBS, MySQL, Techniques, U2

Since I have now got a connection from UniVerse to MySQL, I have been giving some thought to how to implement ...