Info World

[StevenMcLean]

Did anyone notice the InfoWorld articles the Alpha constantly refers to were written by Martin Heller who is a Alpha employee. I hardly see how this can be considered unbiased?

[chadbrown]

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Here is his website http://www.mheller.com/

I am not sure when he started at Alpha maybe we could get a response from Alpha or Martin himself.

[Peter.Greulich]

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As far as I know, he has only been an employee as of recently. But Steve is right, you can't be an unbaised arbitrator of the greater web world, if your paycheck is coming from a software house. Maybe he'll recuse himself.

[mheller]

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I recused myself the day I went to work for Alpha. :)

I won't be writing about Alpha or any of its competitors except from an inside point of view. :(

[Peter.Greulich]

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You're excused. ;)

[MikeC]

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As pointed out in a similar post, Martin is a recent Alpha employee and when those articles were written he was not....at least I assumed this so it led me to believe that, at the time, the articles were unbiased. I guess assumptions are just that---in this case just a best guess or an opinion---and naively, I imagine, I usually base mine initially on the side of someone being ethical.....

[Tommy Thompson]

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How about writing some more Alpha documentation! Especially examples on how to utilize all of the grid events. Sort of a Grid events for dummies (Me).

[mheller]

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That's on my list, Tommy. It's kind of a long list, however. :)

[NicholasWieland]

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Martin,

Like I said before God Bless.

Hope being paid for overtime - LOL.

[Pat Bremkamp]

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Martin,

I know your plate is full, but it would help a lot if you could look at two types of errors that plague us long time Alpha developers. (It's probably hard to believe, by my programming is not always perfect)

The first one happens in desktop and web and is the most dreaded of all errors: "argument is wrong data type"

I shudder when I see this because it could be any variable anywhere. Only thing to do is start remming out sections and try to pin down where it happened. It's also a bit annoying because the program had to know which one it was in order to generate the error. Why not tell us?

The second is a web error like the one in the attached photo. The error message indicates that there is an error in the "behind the screens" scripts. Again, this could come from anywhere. For this, we could use some trouble shooting tips. Otherwise, it's "start at the top and look at everything".

Pat

[Peter.Greulich]

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How about writing some more Alpha documentation! Especially examples on how to utilize all of the grid events. Sort of a Grid events for dummies (Me).

As Martin has said, he is working on docs. It is a huge job. I don't envy him. In the mean time, most of us struggle w. the v10 web grid events. So far, we can rely on Selwyn, Bob Moore and Wolfgang for v10 grid event assist (hope I didn't miss anyone). I don't mean to imply that there are not plenty of other knowledgeable developers who help on this board w. v10 web - there are. But the stickler is events - particularly xbasic events and how to follow through on them. JavaScript events are relatively easy. Just go to W3schools or a dozen other help sites. But the secret nomenclature and functionality of the xbasic events in v10 is a challenge to put it mildly. We know Martin Heller is very, very busy. Next week he gives a 40-hour course on v10 in Burlington. So we won't be able to rely on him for quite a while. In the mean time, it's every man/woman for himself/herself - sort of.

[peteconway]

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Martin - I think this is called a baptism of fire! - I'm sure you will do a good job, thanks for your good work to date.