RE-Decoded

A technical look at the Raiser’s Edge API from Blackbaud

The Obsolete API

March 26th, 2008 by David Zeidman

Inspired by a posting on Wired (which in turn was taken from a Wiki on obsolete technologies) I wanted to give you a list of the top five obsolete areas of the RE:API.

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Reflecting on the Meta world

March 14th, 2008 by David Zeidman

One aspect of the API that is really well thought out is the whole Meta data structure. Back when RE7 was written, there was no reflection built into VB6. Java had it and there was some libraries that could do it but nothing was built in. Reflection (in coding terminology) is the ability to be aware of the classes and methods that are available to the code during run time.

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Most Visited Plugins for February

March 3rd, 2008 by David Zeidman

Here are the top 10 visited plugins for the month of February. These are ordered by plugins whose follow through link as been visited.

1 Convio DataSync Connector RE
2 Create Preferred Address
3 Action Reminder Updater
4 Alternate Address Deleter
5 Bank Checker Solution
6 Clean Static Queries
7 AFP
8 Audit Trail
9 Add Constituent ID
10 Custom Reports

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