Mockups and prototypes

What do you use to make a rough sketch of how your User Interface should look like?

I like to draw something on a whiteboard in a meeting. When finished I take a digital photo so I can send the design to the participants. Recently I was told to have a look at an online tool called Mockingbird. I played with it for a little bit and I really like it. Any of you using other tools? Pro's and con's?

A sketch on a whiteboard

Something made with Mockingbird

Harmonica Widget for Windows

In both web and Windows applications you see harmonica's in use.
Uniface does not have a special widget for this, but you can program simular functionality yourself.
I have made a small sample that you can download.

Recycle Uniface icons

In Uniface small pictures, icons etc are called glyphs.

When an application  is deployed the glyphs are in a .dol file.

And since the Uniface product is also a Uniface application, it comes with a .dol file.

Yesterday I wanted to reuse some Uniface icons in my own application.

I got carried away with it a bit and made a Glyph Browser.

It finds the usys.dol file that you are using, and shows all the glyphs that are in it.

You can click on a glyph to see it bigger.

Full documentation is in the Execute trigger of the Form GLYPHBROWSER.

The Uniface Lab is looking for six software engineers

Uniface is developed in Amsterdam by the Uniface Lab. We have a long track-record of delivery on demand through incremental software updates, deploying a proven mechanism of continuous integration, and automated environments for building and regression testing.

We are organized around five disciplines: Product Management, Customer Support, Product Development, Quality Assurance, and Technical Communication. We use the agile Scrum methodology to manage and control our product development. We work in multi-disciplinary Scrum teams, each team responsible for both product enhancement and maintenance.

For the Uniface Lab, we are looking for six software engineers: four will focus on product development and two on release engineering. We expect positive and assertive team players who have a strong desire to succeed in a team- and customer-oriented environment. 

4x Software Engineer/Developer        Product Development

1x Software Engineer                            Release Engineering (Build)

1x Software Engineer                            Release Engineering (Test)


Please keep in mind that these positions are about developing the Uniface product, not about developing applications with Uniface!

New Uniface 9.4 Web 2.0 RIA project

This week I was in Lleida with Aritmos in Spain to help them start a project for several governement organisations that organiza training courses for ciitizens. It was a productive week with excellent students who now without doubt will produce an excellent Uniface 9.4 Web 2.0 application.

Aritmos: go 9.4 it!

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Uniface Cloud Data Storage TODAY?

Compuware has announced that the main topic for Uniface 10 will be Cloud Computing.
But it will take some time before that becomes available.
So what can we do with Uniface in The Cloud today?

I have a suggestion: store data in the Cloud.

Amazon.com offers cloudy data storage in MySQL in it's RDS service.
Uniface has a MySQL driver.

I looked at the specs of both and it should be possible to access a MySQL database in the Amazon cloud with a Uniface application.
And Uniface being Uniface, it does not necessarily need to be a Web application.

So who will be the first one to try?