My departure

Originally published on my old blog March 12, 2019

After Joe Ranieri quit* & moved to a new job I think everyone felt stressed. I know I did. It felt like so much more was expected of an ever smaller group of developers.

By Dec of that year I’d had enough of the forums and some of the general dumping on Xojo as a product.… Read the rest

An extensible class factory

Some times you want to make a nice generic class that a user can extend via subclassing.

However, one issue arises with this.

How can a factory method in the super class create instances of the subclasses ? This is especially troublesome if the classes you have are encrypted so you cant change the source or in a plugin.… Read the rest

Code for safety

Lots of time you see code like

static flag as boolean 
if flag then return

flag = true

// rest of method

flag = false

In a simple method/event with only a handful of lines there’s probably nothing wrong with this

But what do you do when the method spans into hundreds or thousands of lines ?… Read the rest