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Do you earn a living with Xojo? 

Absolutely. So much of my work these days - including my NetSuite work - involves Xojo. I honestly don't know what I'd do without it.

Mac, Windows or Linux?

All three.

I do all of my work on a MacBook Pro. That's where I'm running the Xojo IDE, doing testing, and so on. But I'm developing apps that also run on Windows and Linux, too. When I'm developing a Windows app, I usually do my initial testing using a Windows VM running in Parallels. Over the past few years, the amount of Linux projects that I work on has increased significantly. I'm developing a lot of console apps that run on Linux.

Here's something that I discovered about a year ago, and that your readers might find interesting. Xojo apps that are compiled for Linux (Linux x86 64-bit in particular) will run on servers that are running Oracle's "Oracle Linux Server" operating system. Oracle's cloud (which they call "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure" or "OCI" for short) run that version of Linux, which is similar to Fedora. A lot of companies that are running on NetSuite (which Oracle owns) are "all in" with OCI. So the fact that Xojo apps can be compiled to run on OCI servers is a pretty big deal. I think there's a lot of opportunity for Xojo developers to meet the demand for custom software coming from companies that are in investing in OCI.

 

 
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Austin Meetup, with tacos

Join Christian Schmitz and Stefanien Juchmes from MonkeyBread Software and Geoff Perlman, Xojo CEO, for lunch at Cabo Bob?s in Austin on March 27th. The MBS team and Geoff welcome any Xojo users to come by and talk Xojo and enjoy tacos!

 

 
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New on the Xojo Blog

Year of Code 2025: March Project, Web Apps
Spotlight On: Tim Dietrich

5 Tips for Optimizing Your Xojo Apps for Performance
MemoryBlocks For Speed: A Case Study
Build a Xojo Plugin with GitHub Actions
Introduction to PocketBase: A Backend Alternative for Xojo Developers
3 Strategies to Boost Your New App Downloads Today

 

 
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Community Discussion

In his recent blog post, MemoryBlocks For Speed: A Case Study, Xojo MVP Kem Tekinay wrote about those occasions when MemoryBlocks can offer a speed boost. It all started on the Forum in a discussion of the One Billion Row Challenge...

 

 
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