Redgate has been known for many useful tools that are easy to use. We’ve tried to do that in all our point tools. We talk about simplicity all the time and when we release something that isn’t simple, lots of people question why.
Perhaps not enough or with enough pushback, but we do talk about simplicity.
One of the pages in the book was devoted to merely expressing ingeniously simple. It’s written in a number of languages.
The goal of ingenious simplicity is to build things that people can use without resorting to complex manuals and example code. SQL Compare is a great example of this. Enter a few database connections and click Compare and you get an easy report. There’s a big Deploy button on top to help you sync your databases.
I think we’ve done a good job of building some simple tools over the years. Perhaps now we’re in a more complex environment, but we are trying to keep things simple and provide clues to help users understand how the tools work.
I have a copy of the Book of Redgate from 2010. This was a book we produced internally about the company after 10 years in existence. At that time, I’d been there for about 3 years, and it was interesting to learn a some things about the company. This series of posts looks back at the Book of Redgate 15 years later.
