The Itemlocation list is the heart and soul of IBM Form's layout capabilities. Its well described in the documentation and the Forms courses and tutorials, but there are a few key points that newbies - and I - often forget. Order Matters &#65… more »

When you get past the beginner stages of building an IBM Form, you will start building more and more complex computes and xPaths. Using the built-in compute editor and the built-in xPath editor, you'll want to add a bit of formatting to keep sane … more »

The XFDL Compute "date()" returns "yyyymmdd". The default XForms Date field format is "yyyy-mm-dd". The XForms Date picker seems to understands either "yyyymmdd" or "yyyy-mm-dd" for prepopulation, but will save the date as "yyyy-mm-dd" by default. No… more »

Technological changes happen like tides:  inexorable, imperceptible transitions from one state to another.  We don't realize the change until the water is "suddenly" three feet higher. Note, for instance, the white-noise sound of static.   It is surely… more »

When I was young and impressionable, the "bad" kids listened to AC/DC. Sitting at the back of the school bus, looking just a little scruffy, with Led Zepplin, Nazareth, Sabbath and AC/DC emblazoned on black tee-shirts. The rest of us murmured rumors… more »

On the same vein as my last rant.... The "Story of Stuff" has me thinking about one of the Go Train stops along my route to work. The train winds its way through the unbelievable sprawl that calls itself Markham: Like an anally-expulsive developer de… more »

Waiting for the train this morning, I snapped this on my cell phone: (c) copyright 2008 Jud Sinton, all rights reserved. A bout 15 seconds before this, all you could see was the beam of light coming out of the fog as the train pulled into the statio… more »

Have you read the story of stuff? If not, you owe it to yourself to pop on over, take 20 mins, and have a listen. Go ahead, I'll wait here. That is one of the most thought provoking things I've heard in a while, and it coalesces a few things that… more »

These last few weeks we've seen winter storm after winter storm. And I have to take my hat off to GO Transit. As I write this, I'm looking out my train window, and I just have to pity anyone on the roads. It looks like a total mess. I don't think… more »

The commuters at one particular GO station on my line are just hilarious. I suppose the access out of the parking lot is not terrific, so if they don't make it to their car and get in line for the exit fast, then they could be in for a long wait. An… more »

Does boom-bust-echo apply to blogs? It's a repeating pattern on so many blogs ... a great flurry of action, followed by a dead silence period; and if the blog survives the down-turn, then a prolonged period of regular posting. Yes, it's been pretty… more »