ICAL Talks Shop on XojoTalk

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Feb 032016
 
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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 »

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Web site update: a venerable old site retires

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Jan 182016
 
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There is an old adage about the cobbler’s children being last to get new shoes. So it goes for a technology company’s web site. ICAL’s previous web site was originally built in 2000. It was not a bad design. It did weather well, but it was paleolithic in technology terms.

We have always approached our clients. Rarely have people approached us, so we treated our web site like an online brochure. The old site covered the basics of who we are and how we work. The technology we use changes constantly, but those basics don’t. Continue reading »

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ICAL hosts New England Xojo user group

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Dec 112015
 
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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 »

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