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.

Toward the end of January we were invited to discuss XOJO with the people who produce it. ICAL, Tom and Arthur (not to be confused with Tom and Ray) spoke with XOJO Inc’s Paul Lefebvre about enterprise solutions using XOJO.

We’re not radio jocks, but it is an interesting topic for technology consumers/developers. The rest of you non-techies with sleep disorders may also find it helpful.

Check it out: XojoTalk 21 (Enterprise Consulting)

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.

For some companies, changing their web site is like changing outfits for the evening. To a fault, we are not that flippant. We struggle with the content, the context and the presentation. As we approached the new year, we began the lengthy and painful process of re-design.

Philosophically, we are not big fans of dynamic web designs. Those of us who grew up with The Elements of Style and consistent layouts, struggle with shape shifting of purely dynamic pages.

Philosophy aside, we had to give the nod to the 21st Century. Our new site steps down dynamically with different sized view ports, and we now have images that exceed 10k bytes. Alas poor Yorick, I remember him well.

Jesters aside, the site was showing its age, and it didn’t represent us well, especially on large screens. The new site steps through different view port sizes rather than morphing infinitely. It maintains layouts rather than center tagging all content. It just had to; we’re still old school layout. We still believe in form and function.

Let us know what you think.

Happy Computing!

Tom & Arthur

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.

Part of the discussion focused on how Xojo could be used as key component within an enterprise. It had been used by the group as sort of a Swiss Army Knife for data conversion and presentation.

As techies, we sometimes get caught in our own little world. We forget that getting together once in a while helps us to be better and more successful at what we do.

Thank you ALL for making this successful. In particular, thank you Paul Lefebvre for taking the time to get down here and share some very helpful insights into Xojo and its future direction.

We look forward to hearing from all of you and getting together again. Please contact us with your ideas for what you might like to do in the future. We look to seeing you all again

Tom & Arthur