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  • Lorem Ipsum Generator

    When testing interfaces in Appian during the normal development cycle, I frequently find myself typing random text into form fields. The nerd I am, I wanted something to make this more convenient. Browser support JavaScript in bookmarks. This is called a Bookmarklet. And it has direct access to the current web page. So I needed…

  • Process in Chains

    In process models, connectors have properties. In this post, I am going to explain the option “Enable Activity Chaining” in more detail. Chaining is Bad! Yes, really! Let me briefly explain that, so we can discuss valid use cases in the next section. It thwarts load balancing Appian process instances across the available execution engines.…

  • Bits, Bytes & Character

    Do you guess what this is? It is the way your computer stores the header of this post. Computers do not store actual text, but numbers. Then, someone created a mapping between numbers and letters and called this the ASCII table. That was back in 1963. The ASCII table maps the numbers 0–255 to various…