Re:App Maker, Google’s low-code tool for building business a...
by slantyyz on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:35AM
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This is a real misconception a lot of programmers have about Lotus Notes shops.
I also worked in a Lotus Notes shop for several years. We built apps on Notes/Domino and did some pretty cool stuff pre-dot-com, including a Project Management system like Basecamp[1] that was a hosted SAAS (using Domino's web server) in 1998 (crazy to think that was 20 years ago), when SAAS was just a buzzword.
IIRC, more than half of our company's Notes development staff were comp sci grads. It wasn't just a bunch of random dudes throwing a bunch of forms together using the built-in formula language.
I also worked in a Lotus Notes shop for several years. We built apps on Notes/Domino and did some pretty cool stuff pre-dot-com, including a Project Management system like Basecamp[1] that was a hosted SAAS (using Domino's web server) in 1998 (crazy to think that was 20 years ago), when SAAS was just a buzzword.
IIRC, more than half of our company's Notes development staff were comp sci grads. It wasn't just a bunch of random dudes throwing a bunch of forms together using the built-in formula language.
[1] https://books.google.ca/books?id=jlIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52&lpg=PA...