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11 Jan

Developer Deep Dives Alpha Anywhere Alpha Anywhere Feature Peek

Navigate The Alpha Anywhere Development Environment:Structure Explorer

When you are working with a complex UX component in Alpha Anywhere, one that has many different Panel Layouts, Navigators and Cards as well as many Window containers and Panel Overlays, it can be..

Chris Conroy
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08 Jan

Web/Mobile Development Mobile Enterprise Mobility mobile app development

Forrester:Future of Developing Apps is Insourcing, not Outsourcing

Enterprises commonly outsource their mobile application development today, assuming that it’s less expensive to pay highly skilled consultants than it is to pay for in-house staff. But a new..

Amy Groden
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07 Jan

Alpha Anywhere Expert Series Workshops - free for subscribers

6 Live Webinars From the Architects Behind Alpha Anywhere Join us live online for six sessions from January through March as members of the Alpha Anywhere development team take you on deep-dives..

Richard Rabins
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06 Jan

Customer Stories Alpha Anywhere healthcare

Medical IT Company Builds Healthcare Future with Alpha Anywhere

What's the future of healthcare? If medical IT company Patient Innovations has its way, it includes eliminating waiting in doctors' offices, optimizing patient scheduling and appointment management,..

Dion McCormick
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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 Mobile 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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