Tag: OpenEdge

With Exchange now more than a week behind us and most of us now back are at our “day” jobs, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for a great conference. With over 800 attendees learning and sharing in more than 110 sessions and 3 pre-conference workshops the conference was a...

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...

One of the major new areas in OpenEdge 10 is the language support for classes. ABL now lets you define source files as classes, as an alternative to procedures, to take advantage of many valuable object-oriented features established by languages like Java and C#, including inheritance and...

Last month, I had the pleasure of attending Eclipsecon 2008, Eclipse conference, in Santa Clara, CA. The conference was well attended with 1404 attendees representing 37 countries.  There were 10 parallel tracks and with a wide range of sessions from “Getting started” to “How to make money with...

Are toasters and vacuum cleaners ultimate examples of commodities? Of course!, right? Well, think again.

A few months back I read ‘The Myth of Commoditization’ by Michael Schrage, an article in the ‘MIT Sloan Management...

With Exchange being less than 10 weeks away, I thought now would be a great time to give you an update on our planning, and to share some of the excitement about things that you can expect to see.

As a participant...

I met with some of the members of the New England PUG (Progress User Group) today.  We talked about several things and asked them many questions.  Among those questions were these:
    1) Are you using OpenEdge Architect today?
    2) If not, why...

With the OpenEdge Advanced GUI right around the corner (well, coming soon anyway), I thought that it was appropriate to start a discussion on one of those four application pillars - Features.  As you may recall, I defined features as those characteristics of the software that aid in usability...