Decorator Design Pattern – OOP

This is a Servoy Tutorial on how to use the decorator design pattern with object-oriented programming in Servoy. This is an advanced Servoy tutorial, so you may want to familiarize yourself with the other object-oriented Servoy tutorials at this site before reading this one. Photo Credit: hernan.seoane via Compfight The purpose of the decorator pattern…

January 9, 20140CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Factory Design Pattern – OOP

This is a Servoy Tutorial that discusses the factory design pattern and how to build one in Servoy with object-oriented programming. This is an advanced Servoy tutorial, so you may want to familiarize yourself with the other object-oriented Servoy tutorials at this site before reading this one. Photo Credit: Bugsy Sailor via Compfight The…

January 4, 20140CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Button Magic

This Servoy Tutorial is on how to create custom SVG CSS buttons and use them in your Servoy applications. If you are still using the standard Servoy buttons in your application (those Gray boring ones), then this article will help you take your Servoy application to the next level. Even if you have been using…

January 1, 20147CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Table Tree View

This Servoy Tutorial is on how to build a table with expandable/collapsible nodes, like a tree. True, you can probably find a CSS, JQuery or DHTML control that does it better, but this is done using the native Servoy table view. Photo Credit: Denis Collette via Compfight I first did this back in Servoy…

December 30, 20130CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Optimized Table Shuffle

This Servoy Tutorial demonstrates how to shuffle rows in a table view, and looks at different approaches to determine the most efficient. Determining the most efficient approach for the shuffle, also reinforces some best practices for working with a foundset of records in Servoy. Photo Credit: Pericomart via Compfight Table views are an important…

December 22, 20134CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

Software Engineering Fundamentals

Maintainable Code

This is a Servoy Tutorial on how to write maintainable code. Maintainable code means that it can be easily read, understood, extended, and maintained. This Servoy tutorial builds upon what you learned in the two other tutorials at this site, Encapsulation and Event Driven Architecture. You should study those Servoy tutorials carefully, as they discuss how…

December 18, 20130CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Event-Driven Architecture

This Servoy Tutorial is a discussion on how to build an application using an event-driven architecture, employing a loosely coupled modular design. This Servoy tutorial is an extension of the prior tutorial on Encapsulation. You should read that tutorial first before attempting to understand why we would use an approach like this. You also might…

December 15, 20130CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Encapsulation

This Servoy Tutorial is a discussion about encapsulation and best practices. We have been given new abilities in Servoy Developer to use encapsulation with forms, relations, and even value-lists, but do we know what we are supposed to do with this capability? Photo Credit: angus clyne via Compfight For those of you that read…

December 13, 20130CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Using Git Flow and SourceTree

This is a Servoy Tutorial on how to use Git, Git Flow, and Atlassian SourceTree (GUI for Git Flow) with Servoy. In this Servoy tutorial I present the Git Flow model that is working well for me on all my big projects. I also explain how to setup Git Flow with Servoy, and even include a…

December 10, 20133CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink

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Automated Testing

This Servoy Tutorial is on something most developers tend to ignore, unit testing. We all know that we are supposed to do testing, but do you actually do any automated testing? Are you still relying on the QA department to catch your mistakes? Sure, I know, you are under pressure to implement that next feature,…

December 9, 20130CommentsShare PostTwitter FacebookEmailLink