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I think the gold standard for this was Visual Basic, especially combined with MS Access. And they didn't touch on File Maker. A lot of those one-person, in-ho

I think the gold standard for this was Visual Basic, especially combined with MS Access. And they didn't touch on File Maker. A lot of those one-person, in-house applications I've come across were wrappers around databases more than anything else. For example, I ported an application that was written on Access and VBA to track counts of organisms in stream beds to the Web for a county government. Frankly, I'm not sure I made their lives better, except for their manager's manager to check a box. And there are a bunch of small applications I've run across for things like property management that are little more than a GUI over a database.

steve1977 3y ago
I was about to comment that the article is missing FileMaker. Which comes with its own kind of “programming language”. Apple even had a simplified version called Bento for a while, which didn’t really catch on unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database) In a previous job, I was looking after the in-house FileMaker application which basically managed CRM, finance and sales for a small company (around 60 users). Company got bought at some stage and the application got replaced by Oracle counterparts. From what I’ve heard, many people were missing the FileMaker DB.
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