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I started doing my genealogy in University, but I started playing chess around grade 7. Over the last umpteen years, I have put most of my chess interests on the backburner as I instead devote my time to Behold and its development. The one grandmaster from Winnipeg, Abe Yanofsky, who was the also the very ...

Finally that's all done! Fixing the inplace-editing and making it seamless was NOT easy. Delving into a third-party's code and trying to make it work the way you want is a nasty job. Also, I got the website converted to Netfirms new servers, so that's no longer a worry for Version 1. For a list of all the ...

I received a personal email regarding my last blog post. I was complaining about my ElXTree component and considered using TMS's AdvStringGrid. The suggestion was that I switch to Virtual Treeview instead. I am quite familiar with Virtual Treeview. It is a highly respected component. It is OpenSource and ...

Two months ago, I almost had Version 1.0 of Behold ready. It was just a matter of finishing the User Guide and while doing so, fixing any last bugs I'd find. Then I ran into a roadblock. I wanted to make sure it was easy enough to edit the Tag Text and the Report Items Text. I wanted it to be easy for ...

Back on June 3rd, I wrote that Netfirms was going to be migrating my site. The migration stared a few days before that. I know I've got a fairly complicated account with 4 websites and 6 mySQL databases and many PHP scripts. They had two methods - automated (let them do it) or manual (I'd do it). I really ...

I was surprised to see on GenSoftReviews, that Ultimate Family Tree got its 10th review today. It was a rating of 5 out of 5. It brings UFT's current overall time-weighted rating up to 4.04. That's enough to qualify it for a User's Choice Award if it can hang on to that until the end of the year. This was ...

A bit of a status update. Three things came along that I have been handling prior to the finishing up and release of version 1.0 of Behold. First, my code signing certificate for Behold came up to its three year term and I had to renew. If only it were that simple. Paying the money was easy enough. Then the ...

I just finished reading Tamura Jones' latest genealogy software review on The Master Genealogist's (TMG) Public Beta 8. I've stated before that I think Tamura's reviews are the best on the web. They are full of solid sound advice that the software author should listen to, and doing so will lead to significant ...

I was surprised to run across a new “beta” site by accident today. It’s called Find The Best (Twitter: @Find_The_Best), and it’s a new product rating site designed to review just about anything. Their categories range from Arts & Entertainment to Technology. But what most surprised me was that I ...

Some of the changes I have to make to Behold are consistency checks – to ensure I’m presenting everything the same way. One example are the hints Behold provides when you hold your mouse over a menu item (on the status bar)or toolbar icon (floating hint and status bar). What I have to do is run through ...