Screencasts on Model-GUI-Mediator pattern with tiOPF

Jarrod Hollingworth has done an excellent three part YouTube series on Model-GUI-Mediator pattern using tiOPF. The videos are here:

tiOPF Model GUI Mediator / MVP - Part 1
tiOPF Model GUI Mediator / MVP - Part 2
tiOPF Model GUI Mediator / MVP - Part 3

Very clear presentation. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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Ron Grove draws on over ten years of training, network administration and development experience. He loves to work with new technology and see how that technology can be best utilized by his clients. You can find him through RonGrove.com or through his company Evanoah I/T Services

MicrosftTranslator.com is cool

I'm trying to improve my Russian so I can get work with Russian or perhaps Ukranian companies that want to do business in the United States. As a result I've been reading more and I've been using http://www.microsofttranslator.com a lot. I like it because when you put the cursor over the English is shows the original Russian (or whatever langauge you're translating) right above it. I can't believe all the resources people have available to them to study foreign languages these days. It's a far cry from the miserable time I had of it in the late 1980's!

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Ron Grove draws on over ten years of training, network administration and development experience. He loves to work with new technology and see how that technology can be best utilized by his clients. You can find him through RonGrove.com or through his company Evanoah I/T Services

Microsoft Announces ASP.NET Vulnerability

If you're reading this you may have heard about the latest security issue in ASP.NET outlined here:

Understanding the ASP.NET Vulnerability

And demonstrated on YouTube here:

POET vs ASP.NET: DotNetNuke

It appears that the key is a statement in the ASP.NET web.config file that sets CustomErrors="Off". You can read the Microsoft Advisory explaining what causes the problem so I won't reiterate that here. I'm a little concerned because I only have shared hosting. Mine is set to CustomErrors="Remote" which apparently makes it secure, but the person who posted the video seems to feel the setting is "_irrelevant_" (his usage). In any case, hopefully my hosting provider runs the script Microsoft Provided to fix the setting in web.config files. The Microsoft advisory posting has a lengthy VBScript script IIS admins can run to fix the issue. The bored script kiddies of the world with nothing better to do this weekend are probably all trying to get the exploit as I type...

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Ron Grove draws on over ten years of training, network administration and development experience. He loves to work with new technology and see how that technology can be best utilized by his clients. You can find him through RonGrove.com or through his company Evanoah I/T Services.

Screencast to Install TurboPower Abbrevia from SVN

I've done another introductory video covering how to download TurboPower's old Abbrevia product from SourceForge. As the SourceForge page explains:

"Abbrevia is a compression toolkit for Embarcadero Delphi, C++Builder, & Kylix. It supports PKZIP 4, Microsoft CAB, TAR, & gzip formats & the creation of self-extracting archives. It includes visual components that simplify the manipulation of ZIP files."

I still find it useful for a lot of things. My screencast can be found on YouTube or on my site on this page:

Install TurboPower Abbrevia from SVN

About The Author

Ron Grove draws on over ten years of training, network administration and development experience. He loves to work with new technology and see how that technology can be best utilized by his clients. You can find him through his company Evanoah I/T Services or through his LinkedIn profile.

New RemObjects DataAbstract Video on RemObjects TV

RemObjects has created a new video on their new RemObjects TV website. I love screencasts and this one is a really nice introduction. It introduces how to create a basic DataAbstract project in XCode using their DataAbstract templates. The video can be found here:

Introduction to DataAbstract for XCode

In the past I've done a a couple blogs on how to get started with the RemObjects SDK. Here are a couple of those links if you're interested:

Part 1: ROSessionsClient Sample in RO SDK for OS X
Part 2: ROSessionsClient Sample in RO SDK for OS X

About The Author

Ron Grove draws on over ten years of training, network administration and development experience. He loves to work with new technology and see how that technology can be best utilized by his clients. You can find him through his company Evanoah I/T Services or through his LinkedIn profile.

New Delphi JEDI JVCL Installation Screencast

There's a new screencast for installing the Delphi JEDI JVCL project on my screencast site now. It's located here:

Installing the Delphi JEDI JVCL from SVN

Hope it helps new blood get into the project.

About The Author

Ron Grove draws on over ten years of training, network administration and development experience. He loves to work with new technology and see how that technology can be best utilized by his clients. You can find him through his company Evanoah I/T Services or through his LinkedIn profile.

When people with your same name screw up

I was doing some searches today on my personal name and company name to see what comes up. That's important for people like me who have a business that's so tied to their personal reputation. I am Evanoah I/T Services after all... I was shocked to see that the first listing that comes up in a Google search on "Ron Grove" has now changed. A teacher with the same name, somewhere in California, had some disciplinary action taken against him. This sucks! Now hopefully it'll be clear to people that this isn't me. But it does take the term "unintended consequences" to a new level. In the Internet age if we do something stupid and that stupidity makes it online, a news article in this case, you've cursed everyone else with the same name you have. Something to think about. :-)

About The Author

Ron Grove draws on over ten years of training, network administration and development experience. He loves to work with new technology and see how that technology can be best utilized by his clients. You can find him through his company Evanoah I/T Services or through his LinkedIn profile.