Category Archives: SQLEditor

Searching for an Oracle

Recently I’ve been trying to set up a box to run Oracle again. There are enough SQLEditor users that Oracle support is important. Fortunately Oracle have several downloads that can be used, there is a developer license for 10g and … Continue reading

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SQLEditor 1.1b3 & softpedia

Today I released SQLEditor 1.1b3. I think this could very well be the last beta version before 1.1 final release. My first minor point release application!! (x.1) Originally I hadn’t intended to update all of the websites today, but they … Continue reading

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SQLEditor 1.1 nearing release

SQLEditor 1.1 is now approaching release. It seems to have taken much longer than expected, however it does have a number of interesting improvements. The most interesting improvement is that it can export directly to a database. This is still … Continue reading

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Forum for malcolmhardie.com

Following the suggestions in this article, I’ve been considering forum software recently to offer customers (and others) somewhere to discuss SQLEditor. Currently I’m considering PunBB, because it seems to be simple, fast and well received by reviewers and users. PhpBB … Continue reading

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SQLEditor built for Mac On Intel

SQLEditor has now been built for Mac OS X/Intel as well as Mac OS X/ppc. I was able to download the Xcode 2.1 release last night and worked on the port this morning. SQLEditor at the moment still has bits … Continue reading

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SQLEditor

Oracle connectivity has been one of the main things I’ve been working on this week with SQLEditor. This involved installing Oracle on my iBook. Oracle 10g is a remarkably complicated bit of software. It arrives in a 500MB+ download which … Continue reading

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SQLEditor released!

After a rather over-extended development cycle SQLEditor version 1.0 has now been released. Which is a great relief to me. I’ve been working on it for so long now that I can’t quite remember not working on it, which is … Continue reading

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Java FileWriter, XML and UTF-8

Oddly enough the java.io.FileWriter class doesn’t use UTF-8 by default. I’m not exactly sure what the default encoding is (possibly ISO-8859-1 or US-ASCII?) but it doesn’t seem to be UTF-8, which is odd given that java strings are supposed to … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Cocoa B11a

Unfortunately there was a crashing bug in SQLEditor beta 11 and I had to release b11a. It was one of these things were format strings caused the crash. I’d transposed two of the entries [NSString stringWithFormat:@” %@ %d”,aDecimal,aString] instead of … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Beta 9 Released

Lots of fun new features in SQLEditor Beta 9. I think SQLEditor is getting quite close to the final release version actually, which is good. I have set up a new bug reporting and tracking system.

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Online Store

I’ve been working recently on integrating a registration system into SQLEditor (sorry). Unfortunately I kind of need to make some money out of my software and so people have to pay for it. I really wish this wasn’t the case … Continue reading

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Serial Number Systems

I’ve recently been trying to write a serial number system for SQLEditor. I’m also looking for a new name for it. It was pointed out that the current name is generic and difficulty to pronounce, plus there is already at … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Cocoa B6 Due for release.

SQLEditor Cocoa Beta 6 has been released. Beta 6 offers a number of significant enhancements and improvements, plus several bug fixes. Fields can now be dragged from one table to another. The list of data types can now be edited … Continue reading

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NSLog

I just realised that NSLog allows parameters. I’d previously been using NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:@”%d”,randomVar]) … But now I realise that the I don’t really need to do this. A simple call to NSLog will work as well. NSLog(@”%d”,randomVar); It still isn’t … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Cocoa B5 Released

Good news everyone! SQLEditor Cocoa version is finally available for download. SQLEditor Cocoa offers a Mac OS X native cocoa interface, an improved SQL parser, better performance and some bug fixes. Download (325k)

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Shareware and Serial Numbers

Not much posting recently. But I’ve been working getting SQLEditor ready for release. The big things recently have been bug fixes and developing a serial number system. It’s extremely annoying to have to spend any time at all working on … Continue reading

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Parsing SQL in SQLEditor

Good progress is being made again on the Cocoa version of SQLEditor. I have recently rewritten the parsing system to use javacc instead of my own home built parser. This allows for better, simpler and more reliable parsing. Writing my … Continue reading

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SQLEditor (Java) Final Candidate

I’ve decided to release a new version of SQLEditor (Java). The FC1 version is a final candidate version that hopefully incorporates fixes for the bugs that people have reported. There have been problems with users running Mac OS X 10.3 … Continue reading

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New day, new thoughts

Well, I feel much better today. I’ve thought about it a bit more and I realise how very lucky I was that I found about the bug before the thing got a public release. I’m already working on some ideas … Continue reading

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Mac OS X 10.3 problems

Yet again the fact that I’m developing on Mac OS X 10.2.8 is causing problems. Bruce tried out a copy of SQLEditor (Cocoa) on 10.3 (Panther) and it doesn’t seem to work at all. You can’t seem to add objects … Continue reading

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