Online Database, CRM and PaaS – The LongJump Blog

One deeply set feature in LongJump is the ability to find out what the value of a previous field was. It’s immensely helpful, however, when you’re building data policies to be notified of changes to records, but only specific changes. To accomplish this, you’d use the PRIORVALUE() boolean function in LongJump’s formula expression engine. To [...]

We’re announcing our new release of LongJump, the online database and PaaS that helps your business compete! See the complete press release here! The biggest addition? LongJump Javelin. Need access to LongJump apps while you’re at a customer site, in line at the airport, or at your kid’s little league game? As part of Version [...]

Roy Fielding’s REST-style architecture is brilliantly simple and adaptable, but it can be difficult finding comprehensive information on how to apply its concepts or get help from the development community. There are many great resources for developers or even those with some basic web development skills to learn and apply REST APIs to their front-end [...]

LongJump, a pioneer in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and private cloud business applications, announced today that leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC (www.idc.com) named LongJump as one of five companies in a report published October 4th, 2010. “We view IDC’s analysis of the advancements in application development and deployment platforms as proof that as more [...]

A lot of businesses need a means to have external people submit requests via a public website or blog. This might be a “contact us” page or a work order or any number of uses. Most webmasters will create a simple CGI script or a mailto form which generates a file or an email, respectively. [...]

For enterprises and ISVs, it has become more important than ever to support a global workforce. In fact, according to AnythingResearch.com, the translation and interpretation services industry is a $2.7 billion market that has grown an average of 22 percent a year since 2004. The main thrust is the need for U.S. military and businesses [...]

We’ve introduced a new library of videos that cover the deep set of features within LongJump’s public and private cloud PaaS. Over time, this library will be extended and refined so that businesses, developers, partners and ISVs interested in LongJump’s SaaS application platform can quickly watch a short video on the features that matter to [...]

We added a new app called Timesheet Manager to the LongJump Catalog both as a “ready-to-go” app that you can install and start using as well as a showcase for some of LongJump’s deeper features that are capable on the platform and very easy to use. Timesheet Manager is a web-based customizable timesheet/timecard management application. [...]

This post was inspired by Tuomas Pelkonen’s blog on How to Manage Programmers because he brings up great points on wasting programmers’ time and reducing their workload. I don’t know a single programmer who likes wasted effort. In fact, there’s a beauty to what they do, much like a poet, when they are able to [...]

ChannelWeb has recognized LongJump as one of the 20 Coolest Cloud Companies, positioning it with the likes of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. This comes on the heels of last week’s naming of LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya to their list of Top 25 Technology Thought Leaders. As indicated by ChannelWeb, [...]