Hydro4GE provides custom software, web and interactive
marketing solutions. We also sell and maintain Pario, a tool for developing and maintaining web-based applications.

I’ve Had This Feeling Before

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Circa 1991, while an Executive at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, I was invited along with a group of about 200 other Execs to hear Steve Ballmer, now CEO of Microsoft, introduce Visual Basic (VB). At the time it was viewed as revolutionary, as it allowed developers to drag-and-drop objects to create a graphical user interface; something [...]



Private Beta Partners Weigh In


Last Thursday a group of experienced tech colleagues joined the Pario team to kick the tires, talk about our vision and challenge our plans. WHAT A GREAT DAY! With five different projects (not including our own demo project), the Pario team learned a great deal through this Private Beta exercise. A few more items for [...]



HydroViz – A Visual Data Model


Designing a good database system can be quite difficult; coming into an existing system and having to learn its structure can be even more difficult. Database designers have diagrams to help ease a developer into the structure of an existing system. Those diagrams have either not enough system detail, such as an Entity Relationship Diagram [...]



Pario In Context


A key aspect of the Pario application can be found in the in the “4GE” component of its name; it is a Fourth Generation Environment. But just what does that mean? People have asked; I’ve heard of code generators, I’ve heard of Fourth Generation Languages, where does Pario fit relative to other types of systems?



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