Mike Ruane, Revelation Software
Revelation Software’s latest release of OpenInsight, version 9.2 contains many new features and enhancements, including new indexing types, enhanced TCL and reporting options, improvements to the Form Designer and reporting tools, plus much more. Attendees to this session will be given a brief overview and demonstration of many of the new features and functionality in OpenInsight 9.2.

Mary Jean Blink, VSI Technologies
Too busy to attend technical training.  Consider a blended or hybrid learning environment.  Complete 1-2 days of face-to-face training and then complete various online training modules, attend online class meetings, participate in online discussions and chats with other attendees and an instructor.  Learn over a longer period of time to allow material to be retained.  Minimize time away from the office.  Request customized courses based on specific topics needed for your solutions.

Bryan Shumsky, Revelation Software
O4W is a new-from-the-ground-up tool for OpenInsight, allowing Basic+ developers to generate dynamic Web 2.0 applications from within the familiar OI environment.  In addition to several ‘wizards’ (designed to speed form, report, and dashboard development), O4W contains a complete API (applications programming interface) for more complex applications, or “finer-tuned” control of the web output.  This session will discuss the features and functions of the O4W API, and how to design and develop O4W “commuter modules”.  No web (HTML, CSS, javascript, etc.) experience is required, as O4W “encapsulates” all the details behind the scenes, but attendees should be familiar with Basic+ programming.

Clay Borne, CLB IT
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are quickly blurring the line between desktop and web-top applications. Adobe Flex has risen to be one of the most popular platforms for developing these full featured systems. Through Flex technology developers can easily deliver desktop-like applications for multiple platforms without being tied down by traditional LAN-based networks. Attendees in this presentation will see how CLB IT has been developing Flex applications with OpenInsight on the backend.

John Bramley, TigerLogic
Get a first-hand look at the next generation of TigerLogic’s D3 Multi-Value database product. Learn how D3 can provide added performance and scalability to your Multi-Value data. See how D3 is providing new opportunities for Multi-Value data via open standards, including XML and Web Services.

Jared Bratu, Revelation Software
This session provides a practical overview of configuration guidelines to provide optimum performance of your application. The presentation covers client, network, server, and linear hash table configurations and how they impact your application. By the end of the presentation know whether gigabit network upgrades will benefit your application, will changing the table frame size be a beneficial procedure, or how an OpenInsight application can be accurately benchmarked on various hardware configurations.

Robert Carten, Revelation Software
In this talk Bob Carten will discuss approaches to the common need to interconnect with other applications, from traditional SQL replication to distributed messages technologies such as the Windows Communication foundation, Google Apps, and Twitter.  The talk will provide a short example of each approach and a discussion of design strategies to keep your system popular in this era of social applications.

Don Bakke, President, SRP Computer Solutions
Core applications are no longer confined to the desktop and traditional LAN-based architectures. Browsers and smartphones are just a couple of the ways in which applications are now being delivered to end users. For most OpenInsight developers this requires a change in how applications are designed and programmed. Model-view-controller (MVC) is an architectural approach that addresses this need. Attendees in this presentation will see how SRP has been adapting these principles.

Robert Catalano, Revelation Software
The OpenInsight for Web (O4W) Development Toolkit makes it possible for OpenInsight developers with limited or no HTML/XML/Javascript experience to develop feature rich web pages integrated to an OpenInsight or Advanced Revelation database.  O4W is designed to work the way OpenInsight developers think, taking advantage of the skills and knowledge they already have.  While users with more web development experience can use O4W’s advanced features (covered in another session), all developers can create modern web applications using O4W’s design tools.  This session will focus on O4W’s Form Builder, Report Builder, Menu Builder, Dashboard Builder and integration with WebOI.

Sean FitzSimons, Revelation Software
There is often the need for OpenInsight to interface and interact with the Microsoft Office system.  The goal of this session is to provide an overview, with samples, of creating, reading and updating various MSOffice documents such as Excel spreadsheets, Word documents and Outlook Mail.  The technologies used will include: Open XML, .Net, COM and ActiveX.

Kevin Fournier, Senior Developer, SRP Computer Solutions
Software applications are commonly being assembled with third-party components. These add-ons need to operate seamlessly within existing environments. An industry standard approach is to utilize a service oriented architecture (SOA) so that developers can tie these disparate systems together with relative ease. Even self-contained applications can benefit from this design concept. Advantages of this approach are software programs that are portable, pluggable, and easier to maintain. Attendees in this presentation will see how SRP has been adapting these principles.

Jared Bratu, Revelation Software
Learn how you can distribute your existing OpenInsight application using the Software as a Service (SaaS) sales model or allow access over a wide area network. Bring application to more users by leveraging Windows Terminal Server technology. This session will familiarize you with terminal server concepts, OpenInsight design best practices, and server guidelines to make informed choices when moving to terminal server environments.

Andrew McAuley, Sprezzatura Group
Sprezzatura are legendary for their ability to track down the most recalcitrant Revelation based application problems. With over 25 years of experience of getting to the bottom of software issues they’ve built up a working knowledge of the internals of Revelation software that is second to none. In this presentation, Sprezzatura founder Andrew McAuley will take the audience through the various logging options provided with OpenInsight and explain how they can be used to address specific problems found in the real world. Attendees will received copies of log analysing tools used by Sprezzatura themselves when helping their clients track down issues.

Carl Pates, Sprezzatura Group
Why reinvent the wheel when it comes to slick looking user interface? Why not exploit the programming of millions of others to leverage your investment in development time? The OLE WebBrowser control is installed on virtually every Windows desktop in use today and offers a powerful way to extend your OpenInsight user interface. In this session we will be looking at how to integrate it sucessfully with your application. Topics include: (1)Basic embedding of HTML within an OI form and how to load static and dynamic content correctly, (2)How to manipulate embedded HTML elements via the DOM, (3)Interaction with the WebBrowser command interface to provide printing and other features, (4)Techniques for handling DOM events within Basic+ - Embedded HTML is not just display only!

Rick Weiser, DesignBais
Finding yourself in the undesirable position of building two development teams – one for the web and one for OpenInsight? Do you also find that to take advantaging of the Web you need to learn new languages and new technologies? This session addresses these issues using tools that are available today. These tools enable OpenInsight developers to design and create enterprise wide web-based applications. No knowledge of technologies such as Java, JavaSript, HTML, ASP, XML, SOAP or AJAX is required. The tool that will be used in this presentation is DesignBais. Attendees will learn how DesignBais employs the use of design templates to create a standard user interface that can be easily applied throughout an application or its modules. Using side bar and drop-down top menus as standard features, the presentation demonstrates how user navigation is simple and intuitive. Attendees will also learn how to leverage their existing business logic in a web based application. Emphasis in this session will be placed on illustrating how DesignBais is used to create complete enterprise applications – not just single purpose forms.

Mike Ruane, Revelation Software
The latest versions of OpenInsight have the new SQL Connector built into the Database Manager. With this connector in place, tables and view on a SQL server can be treated by OpenInsight as if they were native OpenInsight tables, so you can create data entry forms, report, popups, programs, etc, all using the tools and skill set you already have. In this session, Mike Ruane of Revelation Software will demonstrate the use and configuration of the SQL Connector tool, its wizards, and things to keep in mind when using it. The session will use a SQL 2008 server to test against, and use both tables and views. Tools for migrating dictionaries and schemas or data will be reviewed as well. Questions and answers are encouraged.

Paul Simonsen, SRP Computer Solutions
Drupal has become one of the most popular open-source content management systems for various organizations. Developers are drawn to it because it is free, feature rich, and supports dozens of add-on modules such as e-commerce, blogs, galleries, and more. While Drupal natively supports SQL platforms, it provides an abstraction layer for interfacing with other databases. Attendees in this presentation will see how SRP has been connecting Drupal to OpenInsight to create powerful web-based applications.

Erik Smith, Revelation Software
Over time as developers gain experience, they may distance themselves from the average end-user.
Once user-friendly applications may become confusing and “non-user-centric.” Erik will discuss five important concepts that an OpenInsight developer should never forget.

Mary Jean Blink, VSI Technologies
Bob Cloney, Elite Spice
Maintaining several operating environments?  Need many test and development environments?  Looking for redundancy solutions? Need new servers to meet the needs of your growing business requirments?  See how one organization utilizes VMWare to meet their technology business needs.

John Stamper, VSI Technologies
More and more we see and hear news stories about companies failing to secure their data. These failures not only cause bad press and open the company up to lawsuits, but can even be breaking the law. In this talk John will describe how databases in general are inherently insecure and discuss some strategies developers can implement to ensure the security of their data when using OI.