“Wow. Am I done?” As a rookie member of the development team, I got my first under-the-hood look at the engine that drives Hydro4GE. I recently was able to create my own application using the engine directly. The target system was a domain information tracker. It was amazing how fast the turnaround time for this project was. Five hours. A complete system built to specification in five hours. The entire process lets you focus on getting the system the way you want it. That’s all you need to create a system using the Hydro4GE engine. The hardest part of developing this system at the engine level was the syntax… and that isn’t difficult at all.
Using the core technologies of Hydro4GE I was able to develop my system in five hours. When I get a chance to use the entire Hydro4GE arsenal, I suspect I will be able to cut an additional hour or two off development, from start to finish. The productivity gains using the engine directly are phenomenal and promise to be even more so when the Hydro4GE development environment is used when I do not have to interact with the underlying engine at a programming level. Complete systems. Done the right way. In five hours. Did I mention those five hours included creating the data model in addition to keying that model into the engine? Now that’s powerful.
About the Author
| Eric Tallman has been a Software Engineer at SEA since 2007. Previously, he worked as Software Engineer for Northeast Software Associates LLC. Tallman received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Scranton. |
