Writings from the sticks

7 years ago when Xojo let me go I decided I need to do something tough to prove to myself that I could still take on challenging things and succeed So I combined that desire with my love of skiing & joined the Canadian Ski Patrol Over the years I’ve met a…

Got asked an interesting question Can you know, in code, if profiling is or was enabled when the app was built ?

Working on some neat projects and actually learning C# along with MAUI/Uno/Avalonia UI frameworks.

Xojo can return arrays from method calls like Function foo() as String() Now what happens if you leave such a function without a return statement ?

In the last 2 years I’ve taken up golf more seriously than ever before.

Well I’ve narrowed my issue down to DISPLAY SLEEP If I set my monitors to NEVER sleep and only run the screen saver than my monitor madness doesnt happen So something about letting them sleep screws thing sup to the point when I log back in it can take up…

Lord I hate these things So here’s a little droplet, in AppleScript, to remove them Yes I thought about writing it in something else But the AppleScript is 213 K and just about everything else would be quite a bit larger Some, many megabytes The ENTIRE te…

When we started 2023 Xojo had – 2013 open bug reports – 25516 closed bug reports – 4203 archived bug reports – 11.62 average daily # of new reports and the fist public case # I could find was 71329 As of Jan 1, 2024 there are – 2280 open bug reports (an i…

Well there’s a bummer MS is ceasing development of VS on macOS Too bad And some would have you believe that this is the end of C# on macOS.