Coding in Alpha Anywhere - Webinar

Free Webinar Series: Custom Programming on the Client and Server-Side

Join us each Wednesday for the next three weeks as Selwyn Rabins,
Alpha's Co-founder and President, presents a detailed overview of
custom server and client-side programming in Alpha Anywhere.

Part One:
An Introduction to  Server-Side Programming for Building Mobile and Web Applications with Alpha Anywhere

Presented by:
Selwyn Rabins,
Co-founder and President,
Alpha Software Corporation

Date:
Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT

Overview:
One of Alpha Anywhere's major strengths is that you can get apps built rapidly without having to do any programming. 

At the same time, another one of its most critical benefits is that it gives you the ability to program on both the client and server-side whenever you want or need to, so that you can fully customize your applications.

Join Selwyn Rabins—Alpha Software's Co-founder and President—as he provides an introduction to Alpha's extremely rich and powerful server-side programming language, Xbasic. In this webinar, you'll learn how to write your own custom .A5W pages and event handlers, and you'll come to understand how you can harness Xbasic's power for your own web development efforts.

• You'll become familiar with the Xbasic language. Developers with previous Visual Basic experience will find Xbasic very easy to learn.
• Learn how to further customize your mobile and web apps beyond the already vast capabilities that come "out of the box" with Alpha Anywhere.

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Coming in Parts Two and Three:
Coming in Part Two of the series, Selwyn will discuss "Using Xbasic to Interact with SQL Databases" followed by "Using JavaScript for the UX Component" in Part Three.

Recordings of our previous webinars:
For recordings of our previous three webinars,
please click here.

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please click here.

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Alpha Anywhere (Alpha Five v12) "Alpha Anywhere defines the leading edge of multi-platform development [web, desktop, and mobile/touch]. It leaves alleged competitors in the dust." Arthur Fuller — Leading developer and author of two popular books on database applications Great news! Alpha Anywhere (Alpha Five 12) is officially released! We are thrilled to unleash what our beta testers are telling us is a truly revolutionary development environment. An environment that empowers developers like you to rapidly develop and deploy robust business apps for the web, desktop and mobile/touch devices—and thereby provide you with a very real competitive advantage.Read the press releases → What's New? To put it simply; a huge amount. Alpha Anywhere offers massive enhancements whether you are building web and desktop apps and of course if you want to dive into mobile applications. While there has been plenty of focus on the mobile features in Alpha Anywhere, we also want to stress just how much work has been done that directly applies to building web and desktop applications. See an example of a real world business application created rapidly in Alpha Anywhere Alpha Anywhere marks the introduction of the brand new UX Component (think of the Dialog Component on steroids!), significant improvements to the Grid Component (such as image upload to new records), a new JavaScript editor that includes auto-complete, lots of very powerful new actions in Action JavaScript, and tremendous enhancements to reports (including HTML reporting with one button export to Word, Excel [with formulae], and text files). Alpha Anywhere also has added security, improved visualization and charting, expanded Xbasic capabilities, more throughput on the server, and much, much more. Alpha Anywhere Enables You to Build Touch as Well as Mobile Apps When we talk about mobile applications, we could also be talking about Alpha Anywhere’s ability to build touch applications. Through a new breed of touch enabled computing devices running Windows 8, touch has come to the web. With the introduction of Alpha Anywhere, we've made it simple to update your existing applications to include a touch enabled user experience no matter what device your users are using—from mobile devices 4 inches wide to monitors 4 feet wide. To see a customer app running on a 46" touch screen, click here. Alpha Anywhere's New UX Component We've taken the Dialog component in v11 and added boat loads of amazing new features—including mobile (while still ensuring that your v11 apps run just fine). Essentially, the UX Component is the big brother of the v11 Dialog Component, loaded with powerful new functionality, sophisticated control types and stunning new features. Everything that we've added to the UX Component for building mobile applications can be applied to your existing desktop and web apps. To get a sense of just how much has been updated, we suggest browsing the Alpha Anywhere release notes and videos. New in Reporting: HTML, PDF, Excel, and More With Alpha Anywhere, you can display your reports as HTML, PDF or both. With lightning fast performance, HTML reports vastly enhance the user experience. In addition to HTML and PDF, your data can be exported directly to Excel, Word, and ASCII with the full structure of a report definition—including live Excel formulae. Learn more about what's new in reports → Additional Resources and Videos Rather than list each new feature here, we recommend taking a look around our new Features page, where you'll find a detailed overview of everything that's new, along with video and tutorial links. You can also check out our new Products page, which will take you through a step-by-step process to help familiarize yourself with Alpha Anywhere—from basic concepts all the way through building an application. Through a series of HD videos, this page answers the question "What is Alpha Anywhere?", provides a technical overview of its foundation, showcases sample apps, and gives you the opportunity to test our new controls live. "Why Alpha Anywhere Matters", an article by Dan Bricklin, Alpha’s new CTO See an example app, built once in a short amount of time, running on all major smartphones and personal computers (PCs/Macs/laptops/ultrabooks/Chromebooks) What Are Early Alpha Anywhere Users Saying? Our subscribers have been extremely active with the beta of Alpha Anywhere, building a wide variety of mission critical business apps—and building them fast. For the official launch of Alpha Anywhere, we asked a few of them to describe their experience with the product, what kinds of apps they've been building, and how Alpha Anywhere compares to other development environments they've used in the past. See what they had to say → “Alpha Anywhere is just that good. Imran Riaz, Senior VP & Chief Risk Officer for Equipment Finance/Federal leasing at TD Bank     "Alpha Anywhere fills a critical need to let developers like me build serious web and mobile applications fast. Dion McCormick, CEO of GKR Solutions     "Alpha Software is a company that knows where they're going. We are delighted with Alpha Anywhere. Anthony Ward, Dir. of Development for Palace Entertainment, owner of 37 theme parks     "I get a real competitive advantage because I can develop applications with Alpha Anywhere that will run on all of these platforms. Nils Boje is building applications for enterprises such as MAERSK, the world largest shipping company, with Alpha Anywhere