SIMPOL Development

Sorry I haven’t said much recently, but the last couple of months have been busy. While tracking down a strange report from a customer about a small application we had built, I discovered that SIMPOL had been bitten by the small fonts/large fonts issue that I remembered from way back in the old days with [...]

Today I decided to tackle something that I had decided needed doing. After discussing the migration to the new forum with my web guru, he pointed out that we would lose all the back links and indexed entries from Google and other search engines if we broke the URL path. The original reason we put [...]

In my recent conversations with one of the old Superbase crowd who has taken the plunge and is converting/rewriting an application in SIMPOL, he mentioned that he is documenting his steps on a blog. For anyone interested in getting a different point of view and set of experiences, you may wish to have a look [...]

One of the things that I had to do as part of the web site update, was to manage supplying multiple XML sitemaps to Google. WordPress has various plugins to create usable XML sitemaps for Google, but I also needed to generate one for the external content represented by the documentation. To put it into [...]

I would like to discuss the approach taken to convert TaxiPlus into a new SIMPOL-based product called Taxi Pro Gold. The order of execution was roughly this: Analyze the original Initial Conversion Create project using the Address Book sample as the basis. Add into the project all the pieces. Ensure that data-entry, the menu, the [...]

Well, the revamp of the SIMPOL website has been done. We have now gotten the whole thing into WordPress 3.2.1. This was anything but trivial, as it turns out. We have hundreds of pages of documentation that are written using DocBook XML and generated externally to WordPress that we did not intend to insert and [...]