Developer praise for Alpha Five Version 10
If you've seen our latest newsletter, then you've already gotten a taste of some of the things developers are saying about Alpha Five Version 10 beta. And if you read the blog regularly, you know that one of the most influential bloggers has said some pretty nice things too. We've pulled some of the most representative comments for our current beta developers, and are featuring them here. These are unedited, exactly what they wrote to us, and we didn't tell anyone what to say. If you've been an Alpha user for a long time, you know we don't play those types of marketing games
"Development is fun and incredibly productive with V10. The Ajax driven grid has consistent, reliable and predictable behavior. With its unlimited capability to link and drill down to expose related information, the V10 grid makes the creation of powerful, fast web applications within the reach of even novice developers.
This will encourage a whole new breed of developers to dig in and push the envelope with V10 and they won’t be disappointed. With the exposure of a vast array of server and client side events, the experienced developer has the ability to create custom behaviors’ that are limited only by your imagination and skills. You can easily wire in any of the popular Javascript libraries like JQuery or Dojo to create animation effects or widgets to pass data to custom Alpha V10 Ajax handlers. The ability to easily tie into ANY of the popular SQL databases like MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, etc. and the support of international languages and character sets is a huge benefit that provides the horsepower needed to build a wide array of powerful and fast web apps that can help large and small enterprises worldwide."
- Bob Moore, Micromedia Studios
"One of the things that I like most about Alpha Five which is considerably different than other tools is 'it's got altitude.' You don't get topped out on capability since you can always revert to lower level functionality that's readily accessible. Then, as you've shown, it can be generalized to a higher level as the demand increases (or the time availability does!) Awesome!”
V10 is really a great achievement ... and you can quote me!!!"
- John Landry, Former Vice President for Technology Strategy at IBM, CTO at Lotus Development Corporation, CTO at Dun and Bradstreet
"In a nutshell, Alpha Five V10 is the first Web application data builder for developers large and small that delivers true commercial-grade performance in both development productivity and content delivery. The world’s first Codeless AJAX™ capabilities are so empowering I feel confident enough to be able to engage the wishes of even the largest organizations with first class data-to-the-Web solutions and do it in record time. I could never imagine such results would ever be achievable by individual developers, and while you can now easily include a world of third party Java apps, you don’t need any other product for most work -- it truly is amazing."
- Peter Conway, Web Designer/entrepreneur
"I never really had time for coding which is why I liked Alpha Five years ago. Anyone can give it a go as long as they know what they want to achieve, the possibilities are endless, and now with the latest V10, well, where does it stop... It's no longer about 'Where do you want to go today' but 'What do you want to develop today.' With Alpha Five Version 10, the possibilities are literally endless!"
- Phil Eaton, Managing Director, Speedy Business Systems Limited
"The ability to connect to virtually any database and then develop powerful software for both desktop and Web platforms with ease, as well as to create, publish and display reports to end users quickly and intuitively have always made Alpha Five an attractive option for RAD solutions.
Alpha Five Version 10, with its stunning and innovative features such as Codeless AJAX™, online full HTML editing fields and sophisticated user interface controls, has cemented Alpha Five’s position as our 'weapon of choice' at Speedy Business Systems -- combining ease of use with nigh on unlimited programmability in both the native Xbasic and now also automated scripting, as well as custom JavaScripts and much, much more.
With the help of Alpha Five v10, we are now able to offer our clients a fully rounded service from hardware supplies and support through to custom-written Web and desktop software, more quickly, flexibly and competently than before. 'Drool-worthy' was my initial reaction to the v10 demos and I still stand by that statement – and sincerely hope more people out there will catch the Alpha Five bug in the near future!"
- Andrea Gill, Database Developer, Speedy Business Systems Limited
"V10 has put the excitement back into development for me. Spending time being creative instead of dealing with the tedium that coding can sometimes be, is a pleasure. I am able to knock out and deploy requests quickly and easily. People are wondering where I am hiding the 'invisible IT Staff.' V10 has rejuvenated my brain. I am constantly thinking of new ways, new methods, new designs to present data in a more usable format. All this with relatively NO background in web development. In the past, I have attempted to develop data driven applications and stood around scratching my head wondering why I was even bothering. I find V10 extremely intuitive and easy to use and can accomplish pretty amazing things with NO CODING. It seems that the options will be limitless with Alpha and the inclusion of 3rd party tools (FusionCharts, Java tools, etc.)."
- Bill Griffin, IT director, Parkell, Inc.
"I have been developing database solutions for over 20 years, the tools I use are Microsoft's Expression Web and Alpha Five, and now with the release of V10 my two favourite programs can work together. I can develop the Web page's graphically in Expression then import the page into A5 and use the new genie to link fields in my web page to the elements within my data base. A5 V10 is truly a great step forward for me."
- Andy Meer, developer
"Looking back on more than 30 years experience with IT, I can say that the new Alpha V10 tool is the top one database development tool I ever came across. I cannot remember being so excited since I started working in IT. This product is revolutionary and certainly should be noticed by all involved in web development. Especially those who now think they have to rely on whatever mainstream product they count their bets on now. Alpha V10 will beat all of them in terms of development speed, consistency and flexibility. If you see what can be achieved in terms of development speed and therefore cost savings compared f.i. to AJAX development, it is truly amazing. Even if you use frameworks like Wicket with AJAX. I currently use Alpha V10 as a rapid prototyping tool as the product owner in an Agile SCRUM project approach. The prototype was finished in 2-3 months ... Working. Development in Ajax at the client is finishing at Dec this year with 4-5 developers working with AJAX for more than 16 months. Against the same Oracle Database! Alpha Five V10 takes (most of) the coding out of web development and therefore brings back precious time to spend on real creativity and excellence in development projects. It can compete with any other currently on the market I am aware off ... And this includes tools in the open source arena. This product deserves it to be recognized by all (ranging from developers to IT management) as a great tool to accelerate development time, save money, exceed customer expectation and end user satisfaction with the resulting application."
- Ron Leunis, Oracle developer
"As a technical engineer in a business environment I needed a development tool to be flexible and robust enough without learning an array of code to provide a solution for configuring simultaneous routers and keeping the business contact information plan dates etc. in a digested format to access over a 2-3 month project plan for each client. I've used MS and FM but efforts to setup and change are much more compliant in Alpha Five. Now with version 10 it was easy to migrate to a Web access design for our Intranet support solutions. This along with the unsurpassed Alpha community support presently, I believe has no equal."
- Gary Swell, software developer, FORTUNE 50 Company
"Alpha Five Version 10 is the game changing development platform I've been looking for. After 30 years of building on so many different platforms, I find V10 to be the most comprehensive tool for RAPIDLY building web applications that actually behave like desktop apps. Kudos to the Alpha Five development team for being so responsive to the needs of developers in the real world -- not technology for technology's sake, but a tool to solve the everyday problems we face. Codeless Ajax™, well thought out property sheets, a comprehensive set of controls, along with built in 'Genies' allow you create sophisticated applications with little to no coding at all. Combine that with both server and client side event models that exposes everything a developer needs for fine grained control as well as the powerful xBasic language and you have a toolbox that just can’t be rivaled. Thanks, Alpha Software, for making application development fun again …"
- Jim Dusoe, Director of Software Development, BMSI Software
We think they did a pretty good job covering all the bases. Do you think they missed anything? If there's something special about Version 10 that you think should be covered, let us know.
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