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Retro Vibes and the Rise of the New CASE Age
I’ve been digging through the archives recently. While pondering a style refresh for this blog, I found myself searching for the exact vivid colour scheme use d for the classic…
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CA Plex - Model API related posts
CA Plex - Model API related posts Quite a popular series of posts on this blog were to code with the CA Plex Model API To make things a little easier, this post summaries all the…
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The magic roundabout....
“Computer Associates (CA), where products go to die!” If you were around in the late 90’s and early noughties, the statement above was industry standard and after a brief rename…
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Look back... The good old days
Plex Merch - Probably collectors items nowadays. Some very fond memories involving the early adoption of plex and some great friends and colleagues at one of the UK's Plex…
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CA Plex and Unity - A visual comparison....
CA PLEX IDE vs Unity IDE I feel like I've been here before....... I love CA Plex together with 'what it does' and 'how it does it'. In terms of developer productivity I believe it…
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Plex News - Update April 2012
Plex Update April 2012 06/12/2025 - Removed dead link(s) to assist with google indexing. It is very said that many of these technologies have now passed us by. You either read my…
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Beginners Guide to the CA Plex Model API using C# .NET - Part II - 'Model API and the model repository'
Beginners Guide to the CA Plex Model API using C# .NET - Part II - 'Model API and the model repository' Edit: Added to a summary site for Plex Model API…
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The Sorcerers Apprentice.
CA Plex Source Code 06/12/2025 - Commented out some duff links Hi, I have been aware of the 'Varianted Source Code' models that Roger Griffith has made available for the community…
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The great CA Plex 'Entity Creator' - Update
The great CA Plex 'Entity Creator' - Update Edit: Added to a summary site for Plex Model API https://leedare-plex2e.blogspot.com/2025/12/ca-plex-model-api-related-posts.html What…
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A little look at Plex-XML
A little look Plex-XML Framework Many of you may have had read about the Plex-XML framework from Allabout Gmbh. There have been mentions online (…
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Beginners Guide to the CA Plex Model API using C# .NET - Part 1
Beginners Guide to the CA Plex Model API using C# .NET - Part 1 Edit: Added to a summary site for Plex Model API…
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RTFM - Read The Effing Manual
“RTFM!” (Read the effing manual) - that was the polite version. That’s what I was told when I first started programming. Not every time (obviously), but on that odd occasion where…
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Retro look back part II
CA Plex (Obsydian) on floppy disk Thanks to John Rhodes for the image of an old Obsydian diskette from the 1.0.3 release. We are now at 6.1 and we have WCF, EJB, Java and .NET…
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Retro look back - Obsydian (CA Plex)
CA Plex (Obsydian) Manual and a CD I was trawling through my companies archives. You know what I mean. I was actually rummaging through that pile of old CD-ROMs that had sat in…
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Integration, Separation and CA Plex
06/12/2025 - Update to remove legacy links that were causing Google to have a hissy fit! Plex has always been a valuable tool for ISV’s or systems integrators. With the patterns,…
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Webcast Bonanza for CA Plex
CA Plex Update 06/12/2025 - Update to remove legacy links that were causing Google to have a hissy fit! Just a quick one today. Many of you who use Plex will have heard of the…
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Anyone got a ROADMAP I can use?
CA Plex & CA 2E roadmaps published. Great news!!! The latest roadmaps for CA 2E and CA Plex (dated May 2010) have been published on the CA website. The links are below:- Note:-…
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My top five enhancements for CA Plex.
CA Plex enhancement (okay, my Wishlist) 06/12/2025 - Removed legacy links to help improve google indexing We all know by now that CA Plex 6.5 is in the R&D phase and some…
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CA show strong commitment to Plex and 2E!
CA Plex and Synon 2E product news I blogged recently about the May Mainframe Madness and in this I referred to the realignment occurring within CA. I am happy to report that CA's…
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CA Mainframe Madness
06/12/2025 - Update to remove legacy links that were causing Google to have a hissy fit! Hi, Most people are aware that CA have decided to trim their staff and products and I must…
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Enhancement Requests
CA Plex wishlist post Well it is almost that time of year again. You know. Christmas!!!! We all sit back and relax, eat turkey (far too much) and discover that port is okay to…
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Plex Updates
CA Plex Updates Update: Removed old legacy links that were causing Google issues. Wow! What a week. I, like many of you spent 3 hours on the recent CA Plex/2E webcast marketed as…
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Its Product Enhancement Time for CA Plex and CA 2e(Synon)
06/12/2025 - Removed legacy links to help improve google indexing Not many software companies give you the chance to directly influence the strategic direction of a product you…
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Merry Christmas CA - Happy New Year
06/12/2025 - Removed legacy links to help improve google indexing Well it is that time of year again when we all take a well deserved break (this is subjective I know), send those…
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The Great 3GL v 4GL debate - Part III
This is part III of a trilogy of articles regarding the usage and evolution of software development languages. Part I can be found here and part II can be found here . All of…
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The Great 3GL v 4GL debate - Part II
This is part II of a trilogy of articles regarding the usage and evolution of software development languages. Part 1 can be found here . So what are the benefits or otherwise of…
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The Great 3GL v 4GL debate - Part I
Ever since development languages were invented we have sought ways of making the development of software easier. We have attempted to do this by abstracting the level at which the…
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What do you do for a living?
This has to be one of the most common questions asked of anyone in life. Apart from, How are you?, Can I buy you a drink? or cringingly, Do you come here often?. Well, this isn't…
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The new millennium Bug?
Will we run out of TLA (Three letter acronyms?) There are only 17576 combinations that can be considered when allocating a TLA (Three Letter Acronym) for airport codes. Part of…
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