Jesse Davis
As Senior Director of Research & Development, Jesse is responsible for the daily operations, product development initiatives and forward looking research for Progress DataDirect. Jesse has spent nearly 20 years creating enterprise data products and has served as an expert on several industry standards including JDBC, J2EE, DRDA and OData. Jesse holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State university.
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Upcoming Design Previews...aka Shameless Self Promotion
Ok, we have some upcoming Design Previews and Architect Tutorials where we sit down with our customers and talk about the latest and greatest technologies in the data access arena. Think ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, SOA, Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, the entire gambit of data access (it's really fun). If you're...
New MySQL JDBC Driver
Ok, due to popular demand we have a new MySQL JDBC driver offering in our new service pack for 3.7 we released yesterday.
I'm not in marketing (and I don't want to sound like I am), but from a technical perspective it is really cool. Go download it and play with...
Data Access in Eclipse: QuantumDB
I've been playing around with JLINQ some more (post on that next week I hope) and in the midst I was referred to a really nice open source Eclipse plugin, QuantumDB.
I installed it and have to say that those guys really know what they're doing. I plugged in our JDBC drivers and was off and...
I installed it and have to say that those guys really know what they're doing. I plugged in our JDBC drivers and was off and...
Just Say No to Proprietary APIs!!
If you're thinking of implementing a proprietary API to expose the data in your application, think twice before you start! It can be a costly and cumbersome, and an API SDK can help save time and leave you with standards based connectivity to boot. It just so happens that our senior director of...
JLINQ really isn't
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I was going to reserve comment on IBM's recent article on JLINQ but I really can't help myself. Here's a link to the...
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I was going to reserve comment on IBM's recent article on JLINQ but I really can't help myself. Here's a link to the...
The Desktop Revived?
I've just finished a really good article in Dr. Dobb's Journal entitled, "The Return of the Desktop". The basic premise of the article is that for several years applications have become more and more web-centric and now it's time to break free of the browser and return to the desktop. I couldn't...
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