hutegger's blog

Change is in the air! -- Carrying the "Spirit of Revolution" from the Middle East into your development Department

hutegger — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:02:42 +0000

Changing the programming culture can eliminate many problems, without the need to develop skills and expertise for a new tool.

Here's a step by step guide to how to go about it, and some ideas about what the advantages of this approach could be.

So, follow the call to revolutionize your development department's culture and usher in a new era of productivity and quality...

ABL(4GL) General Programming Group

Switching away from OpenEdge

hutegger — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:14:07 +0000

Abe Voelker drafted a beautiful write-up about how to switch away from OpenEdge.
Cure for the Plague: A Theoretical Progress OpenEdge ABL Migration Plan

He suggests to use JRuby (or maybe Groovy, or Java), because they are OS and data-store independent, modern (i.e. OO), allow easy CRUD data-access, and support Web application development.

I admire his energy, the extended effort to research, and the kindness to share his insights with the world.

I am a bit surprised, though, by his dislike of the ABL. I L-O-V-E it!

ABL(4GL) General Programming Group

Employing AppServer Made Easy

hutegger — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:33:57 +0000

Many companies are contemplating to use AppServer, but are deadly afraid of doing so. Here are some thoughts about how to make developing and maintaining AppServer applications easy and very feasible.

There are three main issues I encountered over the years:

a) Increased Development Time:

I used to think, that the top-main issue that AppServer novices run into is the amount of time it takes to get a program working, if the back-end is on the AppServer, which the front-end is using to access data.

OERA Group