Tuesday, October 22, 2002

i must apologise to users who downloaded an earlier version of dbconnect (than today)

groove has just introduced the concept of resource bundles and i did not realise they had version numbers also - unfortunately under the OSD arch if you have ever injected a tool of an earlier version and them upped it but forgot in one file, groove uses the older version and generates no errror.

on a brand new install which never had a copy - the version is found to be missing

pls install the current version avbl on my site for the best results

www.apwiz.com/dbconnect.htm

you can now add data to the imported records as well as edit data that has been imported - v useful
re-export to your backend will be in this week

regards

Sunday, October 20, 2002

Hmmmm - interesting. FedEx has broken up with BlueDart (India's largest Courier Co) and DHL has stepped in to fill the space. BlueDart already use my old software across 110 offices as the primary MIS system. See great potential for groove here and am making a presentation this week. would be good to know if DHL have been directly approached by Groove? This is a natural use of groove for customer support.
Finally a decision that everyone is OK with - Our groove centre may be called the GrooveLab - much better than GrooveClinic - the latter connotes that groove is often sick and that is not quite true. For what it achieves, it asks for little by way of support and generates only a fraction of the errors and problems faced by traditional WAN / Web Based applications

however these names have been used quite a bit - by other groovers - i wonder ? anyone i know ?
The other option is GrooveJunction - anyone with suggestions please.