Chad Ruff

About two and half years ago our company was hired to write an application that would allow our client, Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), to access their financials over the Web. It was our first major push into data access over the Web and we were pretty hyped. GTRI hired us because we were a PowerBuilder shop and all of their applications were written in PowerBuilder. Both Georgia Tech and our company, Sage Software, were excited about using PowerBuilder's new Web.PB. It looked very promising. We soon realized that none of GTRI's existing code could be reused for this project. The programmers before us were guilty of the same thing that Sage Software, and most PowerBuilder programmers, were guilty of: we wrote our business logic in the user interface and not in business objects. The idea of reusing the code was thrown out and we started from scratch. Creating... (more)