Andrew Johnson

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• November 25, 2005, on Community:

  I think it more important than ever to keep a tight rein on the features incorporated into an application. I built a simple order processing system whose main purpose was to enable lots of new items to be quickly entered onto the system without first setting up stock parts. The system was developed with Delphi 4 and Access 97. It worked fine. Then along comes Delphi 2005 together with supped up 3rd part controls, Microsoft Sql Server Express, .net etc. All this newly available technolgy exerts a pull and you soon start asking yourself: How can this new technology be used to improve my existing application ? It is not difficult usually to find ways in which it might. Sql Server is much more secure than Access 97 for networking. I have to admit but for pressure of other work I was sorely tempted to have go at a technological upgrade. Fortunately, I realised it be a major undertaking. As an after thought I wondered how the application features themselves might be improved o...