March 7th, 2012 j.riggie
Greetings from APPX Software. As we approach the early end of Standard Time in the USA for another year this weekend, 2012 has the team at APPX busy on a number of important projects. APPX Release 5.04 is now available for your use. This is the last 5.0 release before R5.1 gets out the door later this month. APPX Development has been very active in fixing bugs, and ensuring that the tool is ready for your use.
The APPX Consulting team is very active on a number of projects for clients around the country. There are upgrade projects under way, a potential project to handle banking transactions, system tuning, and a number of other ones in the queue. Work continues on the Summer Food and AXAEM applications. Al has been working on an Application that will be used by Rotary Clubs to manage their exchange students. We will roll out that application and the Foods application that Gary wrote, this Spring. As a reminder, APPX Software is available to deliver consulting services to clients. Please call or drop us a line, if you are interested. We especially like projects where the use of APPX’s more exotic capabilities is needed.
We will also be attending a number of Conferences this year. One is in Salt Lake City, Utah. It will be in late April and is targeted at archivists in that state. Another will be in Orlando, Florida in July. It is for the County Governments in the state. The Summer Food and Medicare Payment applications will be shown there, as well as AXAEM. Also in the summer, APPX will attend a NAGARA Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico where AXAEM will be demonstrated.
Also on the agenda is a new way of delivering applcations through the cloud. Customers may now opt to have APPX applications reside in Amazon Web Services. Selected APPX applications including Foods, Medicaid Payment Reconciliation, the Rotary Club app, and AXAEM will be available through a subscription service as opposed to on your own server. This will make installation, administration, backup, and access easier. Applications may be budgeted as a monthly expense, as opposed to a capital expense. They may still be installed the traditional way on your own server, but we think that many clients will opt to take the Cloud route to save time and money.
That is all for now. We will be back in touch after APPX 5.1 rolls out.
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January 25th, 2012 j.riggie
Happy New Year from the team at APPX Software!
We had a good 2011 thanks to all of you. Our Keys to the Kingdom class and 20th Birthday Conference held last October were a big success. Thanks to all that attended. As for 2012, there are a number of projects underway:
- The first is the continuing development on APPX Release 5.1. We know that a number of features of 5.1 are awaited by customers. We have heard you and will stay focused on its development until it is ready to go.
- The second is the development of AXAEM, the Open Source Archives application. We plan to finish the first release of the application this Spring for delivery this year.
- Another initiative is the Consulting and Services effort. APPX Software has a number of offerings that can make your operations or applications better than today. We can help you tune your system, plan and perform upgrades, develop applications to your specification, modernize screens and outputs, produce customized reports, and a myriad of other services. Please check the Services tab on our website for more information. We would love to work with you to better meet your customer’s needs.
- Lastly, a new APPX Software website is about to go live this month. We hope you take a look, and let us know what you think!
We look forward to hearing from you. Let us know what you are thinking and keep in touch. Thanks.
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September 9th, 2011 Al Kalter
It’s been a year since anyone posted anything on this blog. So there must be lots to say, right?
Um … well … it’s been a year …
Big-time APPX Conference coming up next month. That’s worth talking about.
Football season is here. That’s a good thing.
Aren’t you glad you waited a year for this? See you on Twitter!
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September 10th, 2010 Steve Frizzell
Today, we posted APPX 5.0.3 Beta 3 on the download site for those who just can’t wait any longer for a few good bug fixes. We still have a few more bugs to fix and then we will officially release APPX 5.0.3. Unless a previously unidentified critical bug is found, the next release after APPX 5.0.3 will be APPX 5.1.0 Beta 1. We are already pretty far along with a few very nice enhancements for APPX 5.1.0. Tune in to my next post and I may give you a sneak preview of the highlights of APPX 5.1.0.
Steve
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July 30th, 2010 Steve Frizzell
Today we will make APPX 5.0.3 Beta 1 available for download. This marks the beginning of a new approach for us with regard to beta releases. In the past, we have only made a beta release available when a release had progressed to the point where it was essentially complete. We now plan to release a new beta every week or two, each one with a new group of bug fixes and other changes. So, APPX 5.0.3 will have several beta releases which will eventually be followed by a final production release.
We are taking this approach for a couple of reasons. The primary reason is that it is easier for us to fix and test a small number of bugs and features. As we release each beta, the number of bugs and other changes will be relatively small and more manageable compared to the number that will be in the final release. This approach will also give customers access to some bugs fixes sooner than they would have otherwise been available and they can provide feedback to us at an earlier point in the release cycle.
I must remind you that beta releases should not generally be run in a production environment.
Steve
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July 15th, 2010 Steve Frizzell
Yesterday, we released APPX 5.0.2. While patch releases are not usually noteworthy, this one is because it includes the new APPXODBC service and the new APPX Source Code Control System (SCCS) is much improved.
Our ODBC interface has been completely re-engineered and now incorporates an ODBC server that runs as a service on a Windows system. Individual desktop users who want to use third-party desktop products such as Excel, Crystal Reports, etc. now connect to the ODBC server which in turn connects to the APPX server. One advantage of this is that asql is now run by a system administrator and all file definitions are only imported one time into the shared database which is managed by the ODBC server.
The new APPX Source Code Control System will add a new dimension to your application design efforts. We recently started using it on an internal project at APPX Software and have already begun to see the many benefits that it offers. After you upgrade to 5.0.2, give it a try. I think you will like it but, if you don’t like it, you can always turn it off.
Steve
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May 21st, 2010 Steve Frizzell
Last night, we upgraded our Internet connection. We now offer download speeds of up to 4 Megabits. Our previous download speed was 1.5 Megabits. So, downloads of APPX and other related products should now be much faster. Access to the APPX web site and the other support sites such as the FAQ, the message board, the blog, the bugtracker system, and the support ticket system should also be significantly faster.
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April 13th, 2010 Al Kalter
It has been a few years since I last attended a concert, as, to be honest, there are very few performers that I’d be willing to pay to see these days. But that string was broken on Saturday night, when we went with a couple of friends to see the group Styx in concert with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. It was … OK.
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February 23rd, 2010 Al Kalter
OK, so what’s the deal with curling? How did this bizarre combination of bowling, bocce, and shuffleboard become an Olympic sport, one which uses domestic implements to clean an already clean surface, and includes at least one pregnant competitor? And why does it seem to be on the air EVERY TIME we tune to this Olympics this week?
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January 28th, 2010 Al Kalter
It’s been a few weeks, and there have been so many interesting things going on … the start of a new decade, a significant election result in Massachusetts, Colts and Saints heading for the Super Bowl (a registered trademark, used without permission – uh, oh), a life-changing new product from Steve Jobs and Apple … but today I want to talk about the nine iron that Tiger Woods took to the head.
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