iModernize - The Profound Logic Software Blog

In web development, a sometimes useful (but often misused) capability is to detect which browser the user is accessing the site or application with. This is commonly done in client-side (JavaScript) coding to get around browser quirks or bugs, or to present a different experience to users of one browser or another.

Layouts and Grids are some of the most flexible widgets in Profound UI. In this blog post, I will show you how the two widgets can work together to present many columns of information to the user, and to allow the user to scroll through these columns horizontally.

Today's businesses operate in a global market, with customers and employees located in many countries around the world. To better support the needs of these businesses, we've released Profound UI 4.7.

As you may have seen, IBM has announced a major technology refresh for IBM i 7.1 (TR7 for short). TR7 brings several updates to the table, including enhancements to the DB2 database and Application Runtime Expert product, and the arrival of Ruby on Rails.

Next week, the Profound Logic team will be on-site at the TransForum 2013 Conference in Anaheim, CA. So what is an IBM i modernization software company doing at a trucking and transportation conference? It turns out that a large number of trucking companies run on the IBM i platform!

If you have ever created a subfile program with Profound UI, you're probably already aware of the many cool features provided by the grid widget.

In case you haven’t heard, there is a new IBM Redbook on the horizon. This one focuses on Application Modernization. It is a HUGE undertaking and I am glad I was able to participate and represent Profound Logic.

I was given the interesting assignment of changing Profound UI so that any runtime messages would be available in any language chosen by the customer. I can definitely see why. Prior to this project, most of the messages that the product provided were in English, which is clearly not suitable for non-English speakers.

Mobile is a major initiative for many businesses in 2013, including those that run on the IBM i platform. If you have limited experience with creating mobile applications, this can be a daunting prospect. There are multiple approaches to going mobile, and some are not as difficult as you may think!

In version 4.6 of Profound UI we introduce our new mobile client that makes it dead simple to create powerful mobile apps. This feature is designed to make it easy for RPG programmers to write ILE RPG programs that run on IBM i, but send their screen output so that they look and feel like native mobile apps running on an Apple iOS or Android device.