The first book I ever wrote was the Oracle Designer 2000 Handbook (1999, Oracle Press) Peter Koletzke was my co-author. Probably the biggest “ah ha!” moment for me was the realization that the tools you use have a HUGE impact…
Business Rules Based SDLC – High Level View
Tagged with: Business rules approach, Project Management, requirements, web application development
Posted in BLOG, Business Rules
Posted in BLOG, Business Rules
What Software Development SHOULD Be Like – The User Interface Rules
I have already written about the whole business rules architecture (see previous blog posts about Object, Object Interaction and UI rules). Object o Structure o Process o Data Validation Object Interaction User Interface Getting people to think in a “real”…
Tagged with: code generator, User interface, web application development
Posted in BLOG, Development
Posted in BLOG, Development
How Will You Build Your Next System
This article by Paul Dorsey was part of a presentation given in 2012 at the IOUG Collaborate conference. With the popularity of Object-Oriented (OO) technology and web-based development at the turn of the century, we moved into a world with more questions than answers. The open…
Tagged with: ADF, APEX, J2EE, Oracle Forms, web application development
Posted in Articles, Development, Publications
Posted in Articles, Development, Publications
Clients vs. customers – via Seth Godin
I start my day reading Seth Godin’s blog, every day, for maybe two years now. His posts are short and often they are obvious truths. But I read them long enough that they got me to fear less, deliver more, and…
Tagged with: clients, Commercial off-the-shelf, requirements, web application development
Posted in About Dulcian, BLOG, Consulting, Development, Products
Posted in About Dulcian, BLOG, Consulting, Development, Products
Preparing for User Acceptance Testing
One of the things that can make user acceptance testing go horribly wrong is that the users have no idea what they are supposed to be doing. They do not know how to use the system. They do not know…
Tagged with: Project Management, template, testing, user acceptance testing, User interface, web application development
Posted in BLOG, Clients, Consulting, Development
Posted in BLOG, Clients, Consulting, Development
The Evolution of a Project into a Product
I suspect that most software products have their origins as a project. We are seeing the birth of such a product so I thought I would blog about it. Earlier I wrote a couple of posts about our next generation…
Tagged with: code generator, medical history, survey, web application development
Posted in BLOG, Consulting, Development
Posted in BLOG, Consulting, Development
And the #1 killer of performance in a web application is…
OK, sure, if you write a query that takes 10 minutes, then your performance is going to be terrible. But of all the systems I have seen, usually there is somebody around who can both detect a long running query…
Tagged with: Application server, Database, Multitier architecture, Servers, thick database, web application development
Posted in BLOG, Consulting, Development
Posted in BLOG, Consulting, Development
Programs that Write Programs, are the Luckiest Programs in the World
I am not a big fan of boring, mind numbing, repetitive tasks. I remember my early days working with word processors and spreadsheets. If you needed to do a task more than about 10 times, it usually made sense to…
Tree Navigation in Web apps
Anyone can make a tree display, but tree navigation involves much more. What you really want on a tree includes all of the following: 1. Only load nodes that are necessary. 2. Provide the option to reload every time the tree…
Tagged with: PL/SQL, tips, web application development
Posted in BLOG, Code tips, Consulting, Development
Posted in BLOG, Code tips, Consulting, Development
Performance Considerations for Web Applications – Paul Dorsey, Michael Rosenblum IOUG Collab 2009
Paul Dorsey and Michael Rosenblum published this article in the IOUG Web Architecture Best Practices Booklet (Collab’09 edition) in 2009. The Introduction is below: Many of the performance tuning techniques applied to client/server applications that consisted of rewriting poorly written SQL code and tuning the database…
