Progress OpenEdge a Developers Review
Progress OpenEdge a Review by a Developer
Ok. After about 6 months of using Progress OpenEdge (This includes SEVERAL products and languages all kind of balled up into one) I will attempt to take a moment to review what I think so far. Let me start off with something that kind of blew my mind. Progress is a Database system as well as several programing interfaces all balled up in to one. So when you are writing a program, progress is your language and your database and your user interface at the same time... no connections to manage no queries to worry about.
A completely different way of thinking if you come from a standard programmer's point of view.
Start off with an understanding of WHAT Progress is.
It takes a while grasp, but Progress has a myriad of software pieces all tied together, that can be used independently or together. Making it difficult to get a good picture of how it all fits. Progress HAS a Relational Database, Character based programing interface, GUI based programing interface, it can run interpreted OR compiled into intermediate code. (The intermediate codes is still interpreted.) It also has Brokers, agents, appservers,...
Ubuntu 11 and NVidia 173 Woes
Ubuntu 11.10 and NVidia-173 A Difficult Combo
I just recently decided to upgrade from Linux Mint 8, to Ubuntu 11.10 (in anticipation of 12.04's release next month.)
Ubuntu made a ton of changes to startup, and how things get running. That AND I'm running a really CHEAP KVM (a device for sharing a single keyboard, monitor mouse for up to 4 machines.) The KVM I have has a major flaw... it does not properly pass the monitor information to NON-Windows Operating systems.
The problem.
When I boot off the Ubuntu 11.10 Live CD, it displays at 1024x768 by default....
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