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"when you have something extremely industry-specific is, you have to hire a programmer who spends about a year of work to build a user interface for your partic
by wx196 10y ago
"when you have something extremely industry-specific is, you have to hire a programmer who spends about a year of work to build a user interface for your particular domain" — with tools like Oracle APEX it can be done much faster, so I think nothing new.
- jlg23 10y agoAs long as one needs a programmer the year is a good rough estimate, the hard part is not the building but the gathering of requirements. Take the programmer out of the equation and thus the communication overhead between programmer and domain specialist and you save a lot of development time.
- wx196 10y agoYou still need someone to think out relations in your database and how to retain it faster with large data sets. If this work can be done by domain specialist only, then it can be done the same way using APEX, FileMaker etc. Without live example of the new technology it is difficult to say how it differs.
- sqldba 10y agoThe thing is that having a tool like this does not make the requirement gathering go away. Dude I can build a house. I've only used a drill once in my life, I've never mixed concrete, or bricks, but I can. I will lay stuff on top of each other and use superglue and whatever it takes. But nobody will ever want to live in and it would not be safe. That's why you get a professional to do it. A user might somehow be able to magically skip gathering requirements and just dive gung ho into creating a structure for what they want. Great. And you end up with the legacy Excel monstrosity turds that we've been trying to eradicate from the Enterprise for the past two dozen years.