About nine years ago I accepted my first software developer job after decades in the electrical engineering field. I was ready to start developing the coolest apps using the latest and greatest programming languages—you know, all those cool kid languages you learn in college. It was a move in the organization I was already employed … …
Continue readingAccelerate App Development with Visual LANSA
Over the past few months I have been writing about the benefits of low-code and how a platform such as Visual LANSA can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of professional developers. Visual LANSA has a much different approach to low-code than the model-based low-code platforms where users work with icons and workflows. In Visual LANSA, … …
Continue readingDevs Were Made to Code: Low-Code Development in a High-Control World
Devs Were Made to Code: Low-Code Development in a High-Control World When it comes to flexibility and customization in creating business applications, traditional hand written coding is still the most powerful option in the market today. However, the power of traditional coding comes at a cost of complexity, time and resources. In fact, low-code spawned … …
Continue readingWho’s Coding Your Business Applications?
No-code/Low-code platforms have rekindled the idea that “amateur” programmers, also known as citizen developers, can increase efficiency and effectiveness throughout the entire business. A citizen developer is a non-IT professional who is capable of solving business problems by creating applications in low-code development environments. For example, Bob from accounting has an idea to make his … …
Continue readingCross-Platform Deployment Made Easy with Low-code
Today’s post marks the end of my blog series on “The five key considerations for selecting a low-code platform”. I’ll be focusing on what cross-platform support means and why it makes a difference to your end-users. If you’re interested in reading this blog series in order, here are quick links to the first, second, third … …
Continue readingHow to modernize applications for business value
The sole reason that most commercial IT groups exist is to enhance the productivity of their end users and to deliver business value to those users. Sometimes that raison d’être gets lost along the way. This blog is about application modernization that is focused on delivering business value to the end users, the people who … …
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