Dear Progress Developers, DBAs, and Architecture Administrators,

There has been some conversation of late in the community about the ABL and today's business environment. To help answer some questions, I have put together a quick survey to ask the marketplace some questions. At the end, I have an area where you can expand the survey with your own comments.

The results will be shared by collating the information and not including any specific information to any one company or person. Please include your contact information in the last question for me to send it along to.

Witherbees Market & Deli are instituting a survey of the market in the downtown area of Flint. If you live or work in the area, please take it at http://survey.amduus.com/bee/.

Amduus Information Works, Inc. is proud to aid fellow Flint, Michigan businesses get a start.

There was some conversation on the peg (www.peg.com) about logging tools. Attached is the tool I spoke of which is a static class that can be used at any point in execution to send a request for a log.

See the unit test code for examples of use.

The book Progress ABL/4GL Programming Standards book published by Amduus contains mention of some commenting blocks used for specific purposes.

The comment blocks can be seen and cut & pasted from here.

A podcast with Mark Carges of eBay discussing the history of eBay's and Pay Pal's APIs and how they came to be a thing of their own.

A good way to stir thoughts of new income opportunities learning other's APIs or creating your own!

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4098.html