One of the projects that we are proud to be part of is SABRS, the software system that manages the budget of OASAS, the agency that provides alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment and recovery services to the people of New York. The SABRS System that serves over 110,000 New Yorkers with more than 1550 [...]
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Who Uses Formspider? Part 2: The Journey From Forms to Formspider
Posted by admin on April 21, 2011
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Formspider Presentation
Posted by admin on April 19, 2011
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If you allow me, I would like to talk about joysticks a little bit before I dwell into web, frameworks and application development, because I know we’d all rather play than work.
Who Uses Formspider? Part 1: The Journey from Java Desktop To Web 2.0
Posted by yalimgerger on March 25, 2011
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When Dulcian took over the Air Force Reserves Recruiting System they knew it was going to be one of the biggest challenges the company ever had to overcome. The system was based on a client server architecture. The client application was written entirely in Java… A LOT of it. The application had hundreds of screens [...]
What Problem Domain Does Formspider Address?
Posted by yalimgerger on February 17, 2011
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Formspider addresses the same problem that Oracle Forms was built for, some twenty years ago: Enabling PL/SQL Developers build great enterprise applications with just PLSQL. At its height, Forms was great for that. Its only programming language was PL/SQL. The applications built with it ran on any platform. For example, I built applications that run [...]
Why ExtJS?
Posted by yalimgerger on February 10, 2011
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One of the most interesting feedbacks I received from our beta users is the interest they have shown to the fact that we used ExtJS to render Formspider applications in browsers. This is particularly interesting because there is no mention of ExtJS on our web site. So they either recognized the look and feel or [...]
Formspider vs. APEX
Posted by yalimgerger on February 7, 2011
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Today, I got asked the inevitable questions by one of our beta users. “How is Formspider better than APEX? How is it worse?” This is my response to him. I would like to answer your second question first: How is Formspider worse than APEX? Formspider is worse than APEX in a lot of aspects. Aside [...]
An Open Letter to PL/SQL Developers
Posted by yalimgerger on February 3, 2011
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I am happy to announce that we officially launched the public beta program for Formspider, our rich Internet application development framework for PL/SQL Developers. If you are a PL/SQL Developer who is interested in new ideas and technologies, make sure you check out our web site http://www.theformspider.com. Formspider aims to fill the gap left by [...]