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Shelley Chase

Shelley is a Software Fellow at Progress Software, bringing 30+ years of OpenEdge experience. As a solution architect, she is dedicated to the quality, security and usability of the OpenEdge product set. As a thought leader, Shelley takes a holistic approach to product development, ensuring that every aspect of the OpenEdge product is meticulously crafted while balancing technical precision with a customer-centric outlook. Lately, she has been using AI to simplify her own tasks and bring AI solutions to the OpenEdge product set at both development and runtime.

 

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Modern AI Concepts for OpenEdge Developers
This blog post explains modern GenAI concepts for OpenEdge developers—how models work (and differ by purpose), why prompting and token limits matter, how RAG grounds answers in your real documentation, and how assistants differ from agents that use tools to iterate toward a goal.
Application Development OpenEdge
Shelley Chase April 21, 2026
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Introducing AI for OpenEdge Developers
This post introduces GenAI concepts for OpenEdge developers and proposes a safety-first approach where AI helps with language-heavy tasks (explain/summarize/draft/extract) while OpenEdge remains the system of record for validation, business rules, and transactions.
Application Development OpenEdge
Shelley Chase April 08, 2026
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Evolve Your Application with OpenEdge 12.1
From database performance to high-availability to the development experience and security, the latest OpenEdge 12.1 release packs a lot of improvements.
Application Development OpenEdge
Shelley Chase November 25, 2019
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GUI presentation models - more than just look and feel

While working on a new ABL sample using OpenEdge GUI for .NET, I started thinking about the different presentation models that are available to an ABL programmer in 10.2A. While much of Microsoft...

Application Development Company and Community Digital Experience OpenEdge
Shelley Chase March 02, 2009
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Lions and Tigers and Bears... Oh My!

I'm back from Exchange and vacation and I would like to share some of the questions (and concerns) I heard regarding the Advanced GUI. First and foremost, let's get talk about a new name. It was announced at Exchange that the new names are OpenEdge GUI for .NET and OpenEdge...

Application Development OpenEdge
Shelley Chase July 01, 2008
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