Nov/Dec 2012
From the Inside: November/December 2012
Happy Holidays to all! It's the end of the year, time to relax, enjoy family, give gifts, and time to start planning for 2013.
Zero-Defect MultiValue Applications
Is it possible to develop zero-defect MultiValue applications? MultiValue databases are renowned for their rapid application development (RAD) capabilities. Many applications by experts in their respective fields, but most were not skilled in software engineering. That is both the upside and downside of having an easy to use database facility that anyone can use.
Clif Notes: Personal Beast Best
As the holiday season approaches, many of us are looking forward to relaxing and spending time with family and friends. In addition to the traditions, celebrations, and festivities of the holidays, for many of us the end of year is a time of wrapping up and winding down. For many businesses things just naturally slow down as business slacks off due to holiday time off and vacations. Of course this obviously does not apply to those of you who are involved in retail sales!
2012 MultiValue Industry End-of-Year Recap
The year 2012 continued to provide us with a number of challenges — changing economic conditions (improvements and setbacks), changing technologies, and changing market demands. But within all times of change there also exist opportunities. We asked some of our MultiValue partners to share with us some of their accomplishments from this last year and what to look for in the next.
Business Tech: Perspective
In many cases our understanding of a situation is determined in large part by our perspective - our viewpoint of the issue. In in order to get a more complete picture, we need to make a conscious effort to understand the other person's perspective. Knowing where they are "coming from" can often help us understand things in a completely different way.
Locking - Part 2 Traditional Locking
The first article of this series looked briefly at how UniVerse uses its lock table to ensure physical integrity of the database by blocking concurrent access to files at the group level. In this article we consider application locking as a means of ensuring logical integrity.
