RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-29 Thread Ostrander, Terry L.
December 21, 2004 7:44 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems) Ostrander, Terry L. wrote: >Proof is in the pudding. I totally agree. Concrete examples and comparisons can be quite illuminating. >I created the n

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread David Sommers
or Live CDs work well) > Universal External access to data and routines (hmmm...) /David. And for those interested in that CRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/home/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Walton, Edward NMN(WSH) Sent: Wednesday, Decem

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread Walton, Edward NMN(WSH)
--- From: David Sommers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:22 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems) I'd honestly say that the approach to querying data out of M and using it wi

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread Greg Woodhouse
Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(plainText)); > > > > Want that in Base64? > > > > string s64 = Convert.ToBase64String(cb); > > > > I have similar functions for VB6 but I had to write the libraries > > that > > make it work. So it really is your "skillset"

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread David Sommers
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 3:58 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems) In fact, VistA does supply some u

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread Greg Woodhouse
So it really is your "skillset" and your "bag of > tricks" > but the more flexible you are to allow external tools to work, the > more > likely a system will be adopted. > > Then there are web services... but that's another thread... :) > > /Da

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread David Sommers
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Woodhouse Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:52 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems) I'm sure that's a big part of it. Though every product out there seems to

Re: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread Greg Woodhouse
I'm sure that's a big part of it. Though every product out there seems to have its own flavor of SQL, using a relational database does offer a common model, and I suppose knowledge of MySQL (say), is more "transferable" to Oracle than it is to Fileman -- though, in fact, I think Fileman is much mor

Re: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread Nancy E. Anthracite
t; horror stories but [to me] it seems to be a faster route. Question > isn't why should I use straight M but why not use SQL connections? > > /David. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim > Self > Sent:

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-22 Thread Jim Self
to me to offer some important long term and short term advantages. > > >/David. > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim >Self >Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:44 PM >To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net &

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-21 Thread David Sommers
x27;t why should I use straight M but why not use SQL connections? /David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Self Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 7:44 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] moder

RE: [Hardhats-members] modern day programming (was: Intersystems)

2004-12-21 Thread Jim Self
Ostrander, Terry L. wrote: >Proof is in the pudding. I totally agree. Concrete examples and comparisons can be quite illuminating. >I created the necessary Cache' objects to >emulate a VistA system and now I am able to perform ADHOC queries and >write programs using modern day programming langua