What if we want to use internal resources for development?

That is absolutely fine. Dragons-Weyr may still be of help to you. We not only carry out development work, but also help in conceptualisation and specification of technical projects. We have extensive experience in helping organisations create specifications which accurately reflect their needs and wishes.

As well as this, we have helped managed development projects carried out by internal development teams and trained staff in "best practice' methodologies and in 4D programming.

If you have an internal team which you want to ensure you get the best out of overall or for a specific project, contact us to see how our services may benefit you.

What is RAD

Rapid Applications Delivery is an approach to application development that aims to deliver business solutions of acceptable quality more quickly and cheaply than traditional methods.

Points often associated with RAD:

• RAD is an approach not a methodology
• Uses a combination of techniques and tools
• User-centred design
• Focuses on identifying important users

Success and quality is achieved by using small teams, ensuring effective communications and clear deadlines for each stage.

It's primary purpose is to reduce costs and reduce development time. In practice it lends itself to data processing applications but is not very suitable for OS or games development.

Why do you use 4D? Why do you use 4D?

Zadeh Designs preference for 4D is because it is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool and allows database applications to be developed faster and cheaper than using tools such as C, C++ or, in our experience, some other applications classed as RAD such as VisualBasic.

4D has a strong GUI interface allowing complex forms to be designed easily and quickly, with all the requirements of modern operating systems, such as menus and buttons.

Behind all this it have a powerful and flexible language, giving greater control than using scripting or macros.

It is also a true cross-platform development environment, allowing you to code once and deploy the database on MacOS, MacOSX, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows NT.

It is scalable and a developed application can be implemented as a stand-alone database or run as a server (using 4D Server). And as a bonus, the server can be accessed by different operating systems.

Add to this it's open architecture which allows plug-ins (which can give you additional facilities such as connection to ORACLE) and it's built in web server, and it makes it (we think) unbeatable as a development tool.