Consultingwerk is hiring!

Posted on 05/09/2011 by Mike Fechner

Zur Verstärkung unseres jungen, dynamischen Teams suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n Software-Entwickler/in / Junior Consultant (m/w).

Details auf: http://www.consultingwerk.de/jobs/

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OpenEdge Architect Preferences

Posted on 31/08/2011 by Mike Fechner

OpenEdge Architect offers a lot of great functionality. But some features need to be turned on using preference settings for the workspace. For other preferences the default settings are just not what my first choice would be. In this article we introduce some settings that we typically do prefer. Read more →

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Experience the User Interface Revolution

Posted on 29/08/2011 by Mike Fechner

Consultingwerk is proud sponsor of the Progress Revolution Conference and exhibitor at the solution expo. Visit us at our booth and see how we can support you with your user interface revolution! Read more →

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Customizing OpenEdge Architect Templates made easy: Personalization

Posted on 15/08/2011 by Mike Fechner

OpenEdge Architect’s templates for new files and new code sections like methods or internal procedures are not always what a developer would expect or like to have. The templates used are based in Eclipse JET templates (Java Emitter Templates, http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-JET/jet_tutorial1.html). To customize those it is required to set up an Eclipse Plugin Development environment (PDE). Read more →

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The Dependency Inversion Principle

Posted on 10/08/2011 by Mike Fechner

This is an excellent blog post by Javier Navarro-Mahucca illustrating the dependency inversion principle: http://javiernavarromachuca.blogspot.com/2011/08/dependency-inversion-principle.html

The Dependency Inversion Principle is also used to achieve a high level of abstraction in the SmartComponent Library framework.

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Progress Alert and Notification Service

Posted on 03/08/2011 by Mike Fechner

Recently independent consultant Tim Kuehn from Canada reminded me to write about PANS – the Progress Alert and Notification Service. PANS is a free service offered by Progress Software. Read more →

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OpenEdge 11 beta program for Dynamics4.NET, SmartComponent Library and WinKit

Posted on 24/07/2011 by Mike Fechner

Progress Software has just announced the OpenEdge beta program: http://communities.progress.com/pcom/docs/DOC-107039

Customers of Dynamics4.NET, the SmartComponent Library or WinKit participating in the OpenEdge 11 beta program, please contact us. We are working hard to make sure that our products are compatible with OpenEdge 11 as soon as it’s released and would be happy to share pre-releases with our customers as well.

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UltraControls, .NET Assemblies and deployment, a follow up

Posted on 18/07/2011 by Mike Fechner

This is a follow up post on the „a few words on OpenEdge UltraControls and deployment” post. Traditionally Progress R-code is compatible a few minor versions up and down. So it would be expected that 10.2A R-code should work on 10.2B and 10.2B R-code works on 10.2A as long as you do not use any of the new features of 10.2B in the ABL source code. Read more →

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Announcing a new beta release of ProTop.NET

Posted on 18/07/2011 by Mike Fechner

ProTop.NET Screenshot showing the performance dashboard

Together with our partner DBAppraise we are proud to announce two beta releases of ProTop.NET, the .NET version of the well known ProTop database performance monitoring tool.

The beta releases can be downloaded from: http://dbappraise.com/protop.html

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A few words on OpenEdge UltraControls and deployment…

Posted on 15/07/2011 by Mike Fechner

Very often we are faced questions about deployment of OpenEdge GUI for .NET based applications and references to .NET Assemblies. Read more →

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