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ICAL Talks Shop on XojoTalk

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Feb 032016

As system developers, we always love talking shop. In the technology industry there are seemingly endless ways to get things done. Since we work in a general IT shop, we work on many platforms including Windows, OS X, portables, Linux and embedded systems.

The constant challenge is to learn (and remember) all the individual tools you need to develop solutions for each platform. At ICAL we use a product called XOJO to do a lot of our cross platform development. It is one of the few truly cross-platform tool sets. Continue reading »

ICAL celebrates 15yrs in the cloud!

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Jan 042016

ICAL has spent 15 years in the cloud. Yes, we know, we don’t need to state the obvious, but seriously, we have been developing and later hosting remote applications for 15 years. When we started building remote applications, they weren’t even called cloud services. We just thought of them as remote programs, just like the network applications we had been building for years. Continue reading »

Internet Explorer support ends – January 2016!

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Dec 282015

As of January 12, 2016, Microsoft will no longer support bug fixes for Internet Explorer versions older than Version 11. This means that any computer going out on the web with an older browser version is vulnerable to hacking exploits identified after that date. Continue reading »

Our hosted apps now have a heartbeat

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Dec 172015

No, we are not kidding. The applications we develop can now optionally have a heartbeat. This isn’t some new age hippie zen thing to get in touch with your program. Our programs don’t really have a heart. ‘Heartbeat,’ in this case, means programs that we write can now be setup to regularly send out a signal to show that they are still running properly. Continue reading »

ICAL hosts New England Xojo user group

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Dec 112015

We would like to take the opportunity to thank our fellow New England Developers for stopping by on December 8th for the first New England Xojo Meetup.

It was both interesting and fun. We were also duly impressed by the caliber of the people attending. The group shared projects that we never imagined being built with this tool set. Based on their experiences, Xojo has demonstrated itself as a versatile platform for building most software solutions that a company may need. Continue reading »