| Recent events at Fairlight Consulting | |
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 01/05/08 | I've released the Fairlight XML to CSV Converter and the Fairlight CSV to XML Converter, both of which are aimed at taking the pain out of parsing and importing/exporting XML for legacy applications which don't natively understand XML but which do understand CSV. Ideal for use with filePro! |
| 07/24/07 | I've released an article, User Interface Design - A Heavy User's Perspective, which details some of the problems with common user interface design assumptions, as well as steps you can take to make your software more efficient to use, and thus more cost-effective. |
| 07/10/07 | I've released an article, AJAX with filePro... Making Magic Happen, which details some of the reasons you'd want to use AJAX with filePro, and details the steps one would take to implement a fuzzy look-ahead search. Contains link to video demonstrating a production version of the feature as well as some other fP-based AJAX functionality. |
| 07/06/07 | I've released a newsletter, OneGate News, which details some of the recent goings-on with the product, the recent 4.0 upgrade, and some of the possibilities the new version opens up for developers and users alike. |
| 03/10/07 | I've released a video, Generating HTML Easily from filePro that shows just how easy it is to get large amounts of professional HTML, JavaScript, and other text into filePro for markup to add dynamic data--without spending a mint or an eternity. |
| 02/26/07 | I've released a video, filePro to the Web...in 30 Minutes that shows just how easy it is to integrate filePro to the web using OneGate. |
| 02/14/07 | I've released OneGate v04.00.00! Building on the solid foundation that was OneGate v3.x, I added AJAX support, field wildcarding, revamped and optimised a lot of the code, and added some other useful features. Get the full details at the OneGate documentation site. |
| 09/26/06 | I've released OneGate, OneBridge, and RawQuery as a bundle for ease of purchasing the entire solution all at once through our automated system, rather than purchasing all licenses separately. If you haven't already purchased any of the components, you can simply buy the bundle and have access to all the tools you need for a OneBridge/OneGate based solution. Stop by the software page to purchase the bundle for one consolidated amount. |
| 02/07/06 | Over the last five months, it's been one fire to put out after another for various clients, and some not so great health around here. No new software has actually been written for public consumption, although I have a few ideas I'd like to pursue. Of course, now that I want to pursue them, I don't currently have the time. Murphy's moved in for a while, methinks. People tend to look at sites and see inactivity for long spurts and assume you've died, fallen in, or whatnot--somewhat irrationally, I think, since no news is supposedly good news. Truth is, between work and the rest of what passes for a life, I just haven't had time and energy at the same time to dedicate to the solid development I'd like to persue. But I'm still around, and still active. |
| 08/23/05 | I've released OneBridge, an application-level reverse-proxy/bridge that is a plug-in module to OneGate. Segregate your private data and public web server with a high degree of security! |
| 04/20/05 | I've released LightPage, a terminal-based pager with direct from-pager printing capability. This was designed with filePro reports in mind.A downloadable demo is available |
| 04/11/05 | I've released FairView, an image viewer designed to be launched from other Windows applications without stealing window focus. Launch a picture from your application, and keep on working without extra steps to get back to your program! A downloadable demo is available! |
| 03/22/05 | I've had the pleasure of completing the latest revision of the GUI search engine for my wife's craft pattern CD collection, The Great Pattern Harvest - Volume 1: Crochet. Any crafty people out there (you know who you are!) that may be interested, check out her excellent product! A screenshot of the GUI is also available on that page. |
| 03/03/05 | I've released the Fairlight HTML to filePro PRC Converter for licensing by filePro developers/users. |
| 02/23/05 | I've released an article regarding sane web design. This article has only been about eight or nine years in coming, given the state of post-1996 web design. I finally sat down and tried to do something about the situation, having myself made some of the mistakes I cite. |
| 02/06/05 | I've added an Articles section with a couple of my articles on various forms of security. Currently available are articles on CGI and Unix filesystem security. I've also made my Fairlight Permission Analysis Assistant available for licensing. |
| 01/30/05 | I've added product account access information search to the Software page. This will let you easily retrieve your username/password for any product you've licensed from us. |
| 01/26/05 | I've completed the FairPay software package that's been in the works for a while now. This PayPal integration toolkit is now available for the general public to license. |