Summer Conference 2023

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Thursday 15th June

PUG Summer Conference 2023 - Thursday 15th June 2023. 

Free to all PUG UK & Ireland members. 

This ever popular 1 day conference was a great success with over 70 attendees, 11 excellent speakers, 13 sessions and plenty of networking. 

This year we had 3 tracks of technical sessions and a 3 hour “JumpStart to Continuous Integration & Continuous Deliveryworkshop run by Progress. 

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ABL Logging: From Files to the Cloud, with No Code Changes (Recording)

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Logging is arguably a programmer’s best friend, used for everything from debugging programs to finding out whodunnit. While powerful, excessive logging can cause systems to fill up disks, and potentially even slow down applications. System administrators are not fans of these consequences, nor do they appreciate making multiple deployments to turn logging on or off in various modules of the application.

Watch again Peter Judge, Consultingwerk, discussing approaches to logging in OpenEdge that can help make admins and programmers happy, primarily using the ABL Logging Library that was added in OpenEdge 11.7.0.

Mysteries of ProDataset & Temp-Table parameters (Recording)

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In this webinar, Mike Fechner from Consultingwerk, explored the Mysteries of ProDataset and Temp-Table parameters.

Temp-Tables and ProDatasets are a key construct of many ABL applications – with or without the Progress AppServer. As a fundamental data structure, they allow to separate the gathering of information and it’s processing.

At first sight Temp-Table and ProDatasets can be passed very easily as parameters. However, there are some culprits causing common mistakes in the use.

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