No this isn't a test of the blog, or the beginning of some creepy horror movie. It's about session management and connection timeout. Over the years we have tweak and improved our process considerably and shared bit and pieces in previous post and videos. But this will be a complete writeup and includes a sample … Continue reading Are you still there? →

Andy has already done a video concerning the WAS install and update. And he touched on the issue with OS accounts, this blog article is my take on it along with the work around I have some up with. There may be a better way but this is what has worked for me so far. … Continue reading Upgrading an existing WAS server to v25 and OS User Account issues →

There was a recent conversation on our Facebook Group, concerning creating combo boxes that match the Material Design Style edit boxes, you know the type with the caption above the entry but inside the input area. Although PCSOFT has made it pretty easy to get exactly what we want for edit controls, combo boxes haven't … Continue reading So you want a Material Design Combobox … →

This is a post that has been on my todo list since we first got Font Icons in v23 (I believe). They are great and allow you to use images instead of words for buttons etc. which is especially great when working on a multi-lingual site. And since they are font-based you don't take the … Continue reading A better way to use Font Icons? →

Feature 020 and 021 are about the new Smart Magnetism, but what does that mean? And just how good is it? Read on my weary developers First I will say Smart Magnetism is the cat's meow. In fact, it is so good that I have been using it without even realizing I am using it! … Continue reading v25 New Feature Smart Magnetism and Improvements to Display Layout Errors in WebDev →

One of our mentoring clients has been having trouble testing the Upload control on his local machine. It would also return an error, that indicated that no files were selected/returned. Once published the exact same code worked perfectly. After fighting it for a couple of hours we wrote it off as just one of those … Continue reading Having Trouble testing the Upload Control Locally? →

It's me again Margaret. You may have picked up on a theme from my last few posts. I have been cleaning up my Jquery code that I have added to a site. There are a few reasons for this. First, the last couple of versions of WebDev have really enhanced the browser code,  but to … Continue reading jQuery UI Date Picker →

WebDev v24 introduced a new switch control, which is far more attractive than a plain checkbox. I have been using a Jquery control called SwitchButton to get something similar in my interfaces for a few years now. This week, we did a lot of work on one of the sites that use that Jquery library … Continue reading Loving the new Switch Control, but … →