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05 Jan

Developer Deep Dives data integration Product Features

Techniques for Db Integration: Display Hierarchical Data in a List

A common requirement in many mobile data storage and management applications is to display cascading data in a List control (such as a list of menu choices). Some of the items in the List will have..

Chris Conroy
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04 Jan

Mobile

Why Developing Mobile Apps Can Greatly Extend Your Workforce

Several years ago when people thought about mobile apps, they wondered, “How are you going to take everything that fits on a normal desktop screen and squash it to fit onto a mobile device?” But at..

Richard Rabins
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02 Jan

mobile app development

New Requirements:Bar Has Been Raised for Developing Enterprise Apps

As we move into 2016, it is becoming clear that for competitive and productivity reasons, businesses and organizations are going to be embracing mobile more than ever. As businesses mobilize their..

Richard Rabins
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30 Dec

Developer Deep Dives

Executing Client-side Validation Rules Programmatically

In Alpha Anywhere, when you define validation rules for controls on a UX, the rules are evaluated when the UX is submitted. However, there may be cases where you want to explicitly..

Chris Conroy
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29 Dec

Mobile

Has Mobile Become Boring?Perhaps, What's Going on Behind the Curtain..

This week, Galen Gruman of InfoWorld wrote a great article offering his opinion of why mobile became dull in boring in 2015. Many of his observations are spot-on. Tablet and Smartphone sales are..

Amy Groden
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29 Dec

Web/Mobile Development Microsoft Access Mobile Alpha Anywhere Tablets Tablet Optimized Forms

Alpha Anywhere Helps Build Maintenance App for Offshore Oil Platforms

Tracking maintenance on offshore oil platforms in the North Sea is vital to their proper operations, but it's tough to do, especially in the extreme weather and circumstances that is often found at..

Dion McCormick
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28 Dec

Developer Deep Dives

How to Make Apps That Use Keyboard Buttons to Execute Actions

Alpha Anywhere already traps certain key combinations in web components, such as ESC to cancel edits and F9 to save edits on editable components. Internally, a key watcher JavaScript method is used...

Chris Conroy
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28 Dec

Customer Stories

How To Develop A Messaging System For Multi-Tenant Database Apps

The following is a guest post by independent Alpha Anywhere developer Doron Farber, owner of The Farber Consulting Group, Inc. Doron’s entire development business relies on Alpha Anywhere for custom..

Chris Conroy
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22 Dec

Quartz Asks CTO Dan: Any Spreadsheet Equivalent for the Mobile World?

Alpha Software CTO Dan Bricklin

Amy Groden
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17 Dec

Apperian Mobile Enterprise Mobility mobile app development

Develop Better Mobile Apps: Design Them Around Enterprise Workflows

Most companies are in the early stages of developing mobile apps, and so are still learning how to best design them. They're only now beginning to build applications that go beyond the basics of..

Dion McCormick
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17 Dec

Alpha Anywhere's ability to run server side Javascript amazing-KKFIN

The following message is reproduced verbatim from the Alpha Message board and we have turned it into a blog post because we think it will be of interest to developers using Alpha Anywhere "One thing..

Richard Rabins
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16 Dec

Alpha's PhoneGap Integration: HTML5 Hybrid Apps with Native Features

By Bob Moore, VP of Mobility - Alpha Software PhoneGap, an open source project of Adobe Inc., allows developers to create HTML5 hybrid apps that take advantage of device hardware features. The..

Richard Rabins
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15 Dec

Web/Mobile Development Analysts Mobile Enterprise Mobility

Forrester:CIOs’ surest path to a career end is poor app development

CIOs are caught in the middle of a dramatic transition from a focus on internal, operational, and employee-facing IT systems to focusing on external, customer-facing business technology (BT) systems..

Amy Groden
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13 Dec

mobile app development

Designing Mobile Apps for Business - Make Sure It's Mobile

When designing mobile apps for business, make sure they're truly mobile apps that can work without a connection. As companies increasingly recognize the urgent need to build mobile business apps for..

Richard Rabins
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11 Dec

Alpha Anywhere In The Press RMAD mobile app development

CIO's Advice: Rapid Mobile App Development Can Transform Your Business

Richard Rabins, CEO, Alpha Software Corporation

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