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  1. TomBascom

    OpenEdge enhancement request portal

    For those of you who may have forgotten... Progress has a portal for enhancement requests and there are a lot of good ideas there. Product management has also been a lot more responsive to these recently than they may have seemed to be in the past. If you have not been actively reviewing the...
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    PUG Challenge Americas 2023 Conference

    Join fellow Progress/OE users in Burlington, MA Nov 12-15... PUG Challenge Americas is the premier event for those who design, develop and deploy applications based on OpenEdge and other Progress products. REGISTER NOW and take advantage of early-bird pricing! Over 50 sessions are now confirmed...
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    "Query"

    pedantic mode = on I am probably "tilting at a windmill" but can we please not refer to every code snippet as a "query"? A query is a statement that asks the database for some data. IOW "for each customer" or "find order" or something along those lines. pedantic mode = off Thank you for...
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    Greg Higgins

    Many of us first came to know Greg Higgins as the force behind PEG, the Progress Email Group. Greg took over the mailing list in 1992 and nurtured it to be the vibrant center of the Progress community. For nearly 25 years PEG was *the* place to go to ask questions and quickly get answers about...
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    How long has this been wrong?

    Note the spelling of "Announcements" ;)
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    ProTop news

    The latest ProTop news: ProTop Newsletter Feb 2021
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    ProTop 3.1415 has escaped!

    ProTop 3.1415 is now available for download! Progress OpenEdge Monitoring with ProTop - White Star Software Highlights include, but are not limited to: Moved a lot of functions to different hot keys. You may want to study the help screen ("?") before you report that something is missing...
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    Ads

    I was under the impression that paying to be a "sponsor" resulted in no ads. Has that changed?
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    ProTop 3.1415

    ProTop 3.1415 is almost ready to escape into the wild! If you would like to test the release candidate you can easily obtain by using the pt3upd.sh (or pt3upd.bat) command like this: tom@protoptest> pt3upd.sh pt3.1415x Wed Apr 29 13:24:00 UTC 2020 Updating to pt3.1415x Wed Apr 29 13:24:00 UTC...
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    PUG@NEXT

    PUG@NEXT! June 14-17 in Boston! PUG Challenge Americas is excited to announce that we are partnering with Progress to bring PUG@NEXT to Progress NEXT20 June 14-17 in Boston! We will be offering dozens of break-out sessions focused on OpenEdge from a community perspective. Whether you're an...
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    PUG Challenge South Africa 2020

    As promised, we are happy to announce most of the sessions and workshops for the PUG CHALLENGE SOUTH AFRICA 2020 on 4 & 5 March 2020 at the Indaba Hotel, Spa and Conference Centre. We have also published the proposed agenda for the two days. Please review the exciting topics available over the...
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    2020 PUG In A Box - Down Under!

    2020 PUG In A Box - Down Under! March 10-11 2020, Sydney PUG Challenge Australia is an independent user conference for everyone who uses Progress products to develop or run business systems. Whether you are an absolute beginner, an experienced user, or a grizzled multi-decade veteran, you will...
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    ProTop 3.141 is in the wild!

    It took longer than I expected (that pesky day job keeps getting in the way...) but ProTop 3.141 is now available to download! Pop on over to Progress OpenEdge Monitoring with ProTop - White Star Software or your favorite dashboard and grab a fresh copy of the ProTop client. Highlights that I...
  14. TomBascom

    Progress kbase acting strange?

    Is it just me or is there something stange going on with the kbase. When I navigate to: Progress KB - Home I no longer get a search box. If I wipe out most of that URL back to: Progress KB - Home I get the search box again but the search has become utterly useless. Worse than ever :( Is...
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    PUG Challenge Americas 2018 is only 3 weeks away!

    The EMEA PUG Challenge is this week and PUG Challenge Americas is October 24-26! Don't miss out! These events are geek focused and all about OpenEdge. There is no better source of in-depth Progress knowledge than PUG Challenge. So if you are not already registered point your browser to...
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    ProTop 3.3t is on the loose!

    .. and is available for download at ProTop Release notes are in etc/NOTES_3.3t but highlights include: Fixed an undocumented feature whereby the dashboard summarization of resource and latch waits was improperly initialized on every sample. Added "as of" to the ProTop version so that multiple...
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    Public Service Announcement

    If you find yourself coding anything along these lines: x = etime. do while etime < x + something: /* nothing... */ end. or perhaps: etime( yes ). do while etime < something: /* nothing... */ end. please back away from the keyboard keeping your hands in plain sight, do NOT save your...
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    ProTop 3.3s has arrived!

    After a long gestation ProTop 3.3s has arrived! Highlights include (but are by no means limited to): Tips and Tricks on the splash screen A startup warning if you do not have -tablerangesize and -indexrangesize set adequately A new screen to show the *rangesize calculations (press "1")...
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    Putting The "challenge" In Pug Challenge!

    Attention all Progress 4gl programmers! We're throwing down the gauntlet! We have a server that plays games – specifically Othello (aka Reversi) - and it's bored and lonely. You write some ABL code that plays Othello by talking to the server using a specific API we provide. During the PUG...
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    Overflow Workshop Session Added!

    We have added a second, afternoon, session of Progress Application Server for OpenEdge: Introduction and Getting Started! Workshops are filling up and selling out -- reserve your place now: PUG Challenge Americas
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