If you want to find out more about the technologies that I discuss in these blog articles, I’m running an EWD training course at George Mason University, Fairfax VA between 17th and 19th May 2013. Full details are here: http://worldvista.org/VistA_Training_Education/EWDVistADevelopers Topics covered include: background to and basics of the EWD web application development framework using EWD’s […]
I think that one of the problems with Mumps as a database technology, and something that many people don’t like about the Mumps database is that it is a very basic and low-level engine, without any of the frills and value-added things that people expect from a database these days. A Mumps database doesn’t provide […]
InterSystems, the vendor of Caché, hold their annual conference, their Global Summit, between the 7th and 10th April in Orlando. This is always a great and fun event, as much a social occasion as a technical conference. As usual, our company, M/Gateway Developments Ltd, will have a booth in the Partner Pavilion, so if you’ve […]
Back in 2010, George James and I co-authored a paper that positioned the Mumps database as a Universal NoSQL database. That paper seems to have become something of a classic, and actually provided much of the inspiration for this blog and the work I do behind the scenes. Interestingly, the tag-line “Universal NoSQL” has […]
One of the main features of the recently-released EWD Build 960 is the ability to write web applications (including real-time ones as described in my previous postings) entirely in Javascript. Of course, Javascript has always been a key component of the front-end of EWD applications: ie defining the functionality that occurs in the user’s browser. […]
So you’ve seen the screenshots and hopefully even tried out the demo application, and now you want to start writing realtime browser-based applications. In this posting I’m going to summarise the main APIs that you use to perform all this realtime magic. The first thing to understand is that this new capability is a set […]
My earlier posting introduced EWD’s new realtime web framework and described the EWD application that demonstrates all its capabilities. In this posting, I’ll explain how to get the framework and the example EWD application working with Caché, running on Windows 7. Just follow the steps below: 1) If you’ve not already done so, follow the […]
