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• The eXpressApp Application Framework, Project Mojave and Show-stoppers

  The provenance of the word show-stopper dates back to the music hall days when a performer’s act was so good that the show was quite literally brought to a stop by the audience’s applause. Of course, time moves on and the word has taken on an altogether... Posted Aug 06 2008, 01:01 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 29 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, Videos

• Models and XAF

  This is Oliver here, posting to Gary's blog. I thought it would be good to keep further video announcements on this blog in case somebody is following Gary exclusively - he's on vacation (well... he wasn't working for DevExpress yet when he... Posted Jul 02 2008, 07:23 PM by Oliver Sturm (Developer Express) with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, Videos

• Business Logic in XAF

  At the end of the previous video Oliver and I were off to try and sell our super dooper blogging system to the highest bidder, tune in to this video to see how that worked out for us (hint: we’re here doing another video!). Anyway, in this video we look... Posted Jun 27 2008, 06:24 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, Videos

• Blogging with XAF

  If you’ve been following the videos that Oliver and I have been doing you will, by now, have a good introduction to the XAF product. In this video we are going to take things to the next level by showing you the development of a simplistic, but functioning... Posted Jun 26 2008, 05:41 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, Videos

• Persistent Classes in XAF

  Having looked at XPO in previous videos, it’s time to have a look at XPO’s big brother, or XAF as we like to call it. XAF is built upon XPO but takes things to the next level by not only allowing you to create and persist business objects, but by having... Posted Jun 25 2008, 07:09 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: XAF, Videos

• XPO Demonstration Part 2

  If you watched the first part of this demonstration you’ll obviously be interested in how our plan, to have an army of “Garys” do our work for us, is coming along. If so, check out the latest video here . Um, I suppose there’s also a chance that you are... Posted Jun 24 2008, 09:35 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: XPO, Videos

• XPO Demonstration Part 1

  Continuing our series of videos on XPO and XAF, Oliver and I look at how to persist a class to the database and how to read it back, and just in case that’s not exciting enough for you, we also hatch a plan to populate the world with “Gary” clones that... Posted Jun 24 2008, 07:26 PM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with no comments Filed under: XPO, Videos

• XPO the Philosophy

  Currently Oliver and I are across in the Glendale office working with our videographer Jeff (hey how come Jeff doesn’t have a blog?!) creating some videos around XPO and XAF. In the first of the videos we’ve produced, I’m chatting to Oliver about the... Posted Jun 24 2008, 03:07 AM by Gary Short (Developer Express) with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: XPO, Videos