Tag: application development

The economic downturn is tough on all of us, and the natural inclination is to slash budgets, and in particular IT budgets in order to adjust to the turmoil. However, much like economic experts and financial planners say that you need to view your individual investment portfolio as a long term...

When I speak with customers, I often hear "if we could only get our application to do"... (well, just fill in the blank for yourself and you get the idea).

The more we talk about their problem, we seem to find out that they really are just unsure of how to get started - of how to...

OpenEdge 10.2A is scheduled to be available soon.  OpenEdge is the only platform that is optimized for the building of Service-Oriented Business Applications.  It differentiates from other offerings in the market because:

• Its purpose to simplify building your data- and...

In the recent research note “Hype Cycle for Web and User Interaction Technologies, 2008”¹, published 7 July 2008 (Gartner document ID Number: G00159447),  Gartner provides a comprehensive analysis of user interface technologies for the Web throughout the Hype Cycle² stages: from Technology...

We’ve been talking for a long time now about the OpenEdge Reference Architecture (see a host of definitional and example materials at www.psdn.com under the new Service Oriented Business Application Expertise Center). The OERA is the diagram with the layers from...

With enhancements in the OpenEdge 10.1x release family, ABL (Advanced Business Language) is being extended with standard formal object-oriented (OO) functionality: objects, classes, methods, polymorphism, inheritance, delegation, statics, properties, strong typing, and more.

A big...

PSDN has become quite a success.  The traffic is continuous (kind of like Boston highways) and the site contains lots of useful information.  The forums are mainly active, although there are a few that could use a little more activity.

But a few of us in Progress felt like we were...