Top all-time · #5493
Progress.com
Company blog · progress.com/blogsprogrammingweb
Progress.com is the company blog at progress.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2008, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “REST API Industry Debate: OData vs. GraphQL vs. ORDS”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Progress.com pages as references: iMacros, NativeScript, OpenEdge, and company tutorials and documentation. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Progress provides AI-powered software solutions to automate processes to develop, deploy and manage apps, and make critical data more accessible and secure.
Most-linked posts?
- /tutorials/odbc/open-source-database2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
- /imacros2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-18
- REST API Industry Debate: OData vs. GraphQL vs. ORDS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-01
What Hacker News says?
Not really. It reminds me a lot of iMacros, even the UI https://www.progress.com/imacros
Comment linking /imacros
on “Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website”Submitted REST API Industry Debate: OData vs. GraphQL vs. ORDS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere are many. A sample in alphabetical order - and by no means exhaustive: https://apify.com/ (YC F1) https://automatio.co/ https://axiom.ai/ (YC W21) https://extension.dev/ https://www.progress.com/imacros https://trysmartcuts.com (YC W21) https://ui.vision/ https://wildfire.ai/ 3 of these are YC companies. Reminds me of mixpanel vs segment vs amplitude, where YC are backing all the horses. Each company is differ…
Comment linking /imacros
on “Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website”Submitted REST APIs for Databases via OData – Thoughts? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhen Progress Inc. changed the name of their awful-yet-surprisingly-popular closed-source (even [ anti -open-source]( https://www.progress.com/tutorials/odbc/open-source-database ) ) 4GL from ProgressDB to "OpenEdge" it was a reminder to me that there is absolutely nothing to a name. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - similarly: "Open[BLANK] by any other name would be just as much marketing bollocks".
Comment linking /tutorials/odbc/open-source-database
on “OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model”Submitted Simplify Mobile Development with NativeScript and Angular as a story · 1 points
HN discussionProgress also up until recently stewarded the excellent Nativescript[0][1] project -- though it doesn't always get the most press, I maintain that it is the best non-native development mobile development kit. Since it seems to be really hard to find this information, want to make a copy of the content of the second link ([1]): > A New Corporate Sponsor for NativeScript > Progress is proud to introduce nStudio as the…
Comment linking /nativescript
on “Chef to be acquired by Progress”Submitted CIM Mobility for NativeScript Success Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNo, they are not. They might claim though - as in the link below - that this is because their products are too niche to support quality input from open source. Make of that what you will. https://www.progress.com/tutorials/odbc/open-source-database
Comment linking /tutorials/odbc/open-source-database
on “Chef to be acquired by Progress”Likewise with the OO guys. Eggs.mix() .whip() .beat(); There's even a term for it - 'fluent API' - described as: > Fluent API is a way of implementing object oriented API in a way that it provides readable code. [ https://www.progress.com/documentation/sitefinity-cms/for-de... ]
Comment linking /documentation/sitefinity-cms/for-developers-use-readable-code-with-the-fluent-api
on “What's functional programming all about? (2017)”LINQ is just an "express your query as an AST" approach. Sure LINQ presents its self as a DSL on top of that AST ( which is exactly what SQL is at the end of the day ), but there are libraries for MongoDB that allow you to do the same thing. There is even a LINQ driver for MongoDB[1]. What you are missing is that by having the lowest common denominator be the AST instead of a DSL you have removed a huge burden from…
Comment linking /connectors/mongodb
on “What MongoDB got right”Progress ( https://www.progress.com/ ) is behind NativeScript, and officially supports the two usual NativeScript stacks (plain JavaScript/Typescript & Angular). NativeScript + Vue is a community driven project that seems to be on its way to also being officially supported by Progress.
Comment linking /
on “Native UIs using Vue.js and NativeScript”Well, there is a balance. In many circumstances, the same service used by different applications may over-fetch or under-fetch data [0]. OData allows the application to describe exactly what they need including things like filtering, ordering and aggregation that might be less efficient to perform on the application side [1]. Having performed the OData.org Basic Tutorial [2] using just curl, I was positively impress…
Comment linking /blogs/rest-api-industry-debate-odata-vs-graphql-vs-ords
on “SAP Graph: API Sandbox on preview”Historically regulators (such as the SEC and FSA in the UK) have had to look at the data after the fact to search for evidence of insider trading. They are in the midst of adopting technologies that will allow them to monitor in real time, and potentially even stop the trades (though I'm not sure it would have help in this case). Apama is helping do this in the UK: http://apama.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/06/the_fina…
Comment linking /apama/index.ssp
on “SEC Charges Mark Cuban With Insider Trading”Bingo! I came across Progress first time this week in a different context (Indian startup scene) - they portray themselves as incubators here ( https://www.progress.com/incubator ). Have a fancy application system et al.. even stress how they don't take any equity. Turns out in lieu of essentially a deskspace and maybe wifi they mandate the incubated startups to use their Cloud platform products - aha lockin! This i…
Comment linking /incubator
on “Progress Software to Acquire Telerik for $263M”(When you say "IT work" - are you referring to software-engineering work specifically - or "IT" in general? (I'm personally not a fan of "IT" as a term at all because it's unhelpfully vague[1]). I wasn't comparing them directly like that. My point is that in the 1990s if you used VB in production systems then you would effectively be forced into investing a lot of company resources - and mental effort - into all kin…
Comment linking /tutorials/odbc/open-source-database
on “John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff literacy lessons”But the good news is Progress software is hiring a security engagement coordinator: https://www.progress.com/company/careers/security-engagement... I'm sure that will solve all their security problems.
Comment linking /company/careers/security-engagement-coordinator-oVWqnfwo
on “CL0P Ransomware Gang Exploits CVE-2023-34362 MOVEit Vulnerability”
