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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
December 2011
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
PowerBuilderTV - December 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
PBTV - November, 2011
** Hot News **
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Enjoy ... Chris
ASE 15.7 for Free
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You may not want to spend the money for a full production license of ASE, but you would like to run ASE for example, for the purposes of evaluation, development or preparing yourself for an ASE certification exam.
Step 1: download the base product
To get a free copy, these are your options:
A free Express Edition of ASE 15.7 for Linux can be downloaded here. While the ASE Express Edition is limited to 1 server engine, 2 Gb of memory and 5 Gb of disk space per server, the great thing is that this edition is free for production purposes! (note: these limits apply to an individual ASE server instance, NOT to the hardware itself -- if you want, you can run multiple ASE Express Edition servers on a multi-CPU Linux box).
- The free Developer's Edition for ASE 15.7 can be downloaded here and is available on all supported O/S platforms. This edition has most license options enabled, but it also has a pretty tight limit of 25 maximum user connections. The Developer's Edition may not be used for production purposes.
Step 2: download bug fixes (EBFs)
For most platforms, you can download patches (EBFs) from the public Sybase website without having a Sybase support contract. Go here:http://www.sybase.com/downloads, then click on "Maintenance Releases and Bug Fixes (EBFs)". It is a good idea to install the most recent patch every now and then so that you can benefit from bug fixes and new features.
Step 3: documentation
Once you have the ASE software, you'll also need the documentation. Follow this link for information where to get ASE documentation.
Enjoy!
Chris
Friday, October 14, 2011
ISUG - Online WorkShop
** Hot News **
PowerBuilder .NET "Next Step"
ISUG are pleased to announce that they will be running an expanded, online version of the workshop that was presented just prior to TechWave 2011.
This workshop will be three days in length, starting on Monday November 7 through until Wednesday November 9, 2011 inclusive. The course "Lectures" will commence at 11am each day, and will last 2-3 hours, perhaps longer, depending on the amount of material presented on a given day and the number of questions from the attendees. The rest of the time will be set aside for lab exercises. Attendees should plan to spend 6-8 hours each day on the workshop.
The instructor for the workshop will be Mr. Yakov Werde. Yakov will be bringing his considerable PowerBuilder talents and experience to the workshop making this a can't-miss event! He will also remain online after each lecture period to answer questions throughout the day.
The cost for the three day course is just $999us. However, if you are a Green or Gold member you can receive a $200 discount if you register and pay for the course prior to November 1, 2011. After November 1st the discount will be reduced to $100. (If you are an organization that would like to put multiple employees through the class, please contact ISUG directly.)
Depending on the level of interest, ISUG are considering holding a second class later in the month for the EMEA and AP audiences. If this course interests you please click on the link below for more information.
Click here for more information and to register!
Chris
This workshop will be three days in length, starting on Monday November 7 through until Wednesday November 9, 2011 inclusive. The course "Lectures" will commence at 11am each day, and will last 2-3 hours, perhaps longer, depending on the amount of material presented on a given day and the number of questions from the attendees. The rest of the time will be set aside for lab exercises. Attendees should plan to spend 6-8 hours each day on the workshop.
The instructor for the workshop will be Mr. Yakov Werde. Yakov will be bringing his considerable PowerBuilder talents and experience to the workshop making this a can't-miss event! He will also remain online after each lecture period to answer questions throughout the day.
The cost for the three day course is just $999us. However, if you are a Green or Gold member you can receive a $200 discount if you register and pay for the course prior to November 1, 2011. After November 1st the discount will be reduced to $100. (If you are an organization that would like to put multiple employees through the class, please contact ISUG directly.)
Depending on the level of interest, ISUG are considering holding a second class later in the month for the EMEA and AP audiences. If this course interests you please click on the link below for more information.
Click here for more information and to register!
Chris
Saturday, October 1, 2011
PBTV October, 2011
** Hot News **
Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
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Friday, September 16, 2011
Happy Birthday!
Happy 20th Birthday - PowerBuilder!
From the Sybase Techwave event at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas this week ...
Left: Dave Fish - PB Technical Evangelist from Engineering
Right: John Strano - PB Technical Evangelist from Marketing
PB: Your Dad - Dave Litwack - is very proud of you!
Regards ... Uncle Chris
(I was there at Cullinet when PB was conceived and at PowerSoft when he was born) :-)
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Upcoming Webinars for September 2011
** Hot News - PowerBuilder TV **
1) The Road Ahead - An Update on What's Next for PowerBuilder
Date: September 20, 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)
A post-TechWave webcast: If you couldn't make it to TechWave, or want to go back already, we have a session just for you! Join us for a recap of what was covered in the plenary session, when John Strano and guests will share what's coming up for PowerBuilder.
Presenter: John Strano, Dave Fish, Sue Dunnell, Dimitri Joosten, Peter Loozen, Armeen Mazda
2) Advanced Security for PowerBuilder and .NET
Date: Monday September 26th 2011 at 11am EST (New York) / 17h CET (Paris)
Over the years, applications have evolved to support multiple technologies and complex architectures. Access Control systems must be flexible enough to handle all possible configurations. This webinar will show you concrete solutions that fulfill these requirements.
We will implement the following features: • Web SSO • Identity Federation • Mixed Mode Authentication • Centralized view and Control of all applications • Multi-tenant / SaaS applications • Securing recent technologies
Note: this solution will be illustrated with concrete examples and case studies. We will also include information allowing attendees to calculate the ROI of each solution: software and material costs, implementation times, etc…
Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
3) Accenture Case Study: Taking PowerBuilder to the Cloud (with Microsoft Azure)
Date: Tuesday October 4th 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)
If you missed it at TechWave, now's your chance to see how Accenture took their PB application to the cloud. We'll show you the important lessons and some pitfalls we discovered along the way. We will also discuss the overall process and tools that enabled Accenture to successfully take their PowerBuilder application to the cloud.
Accenture has a commercial software solution originally developed in PowerBuilder, which is used by Fortune 500 companies.
Presenter: Anthony Orsini
Regards ... Chris
What's New this month?
** Hot News **
Whats New at Sybase these days?
Sybase has co-hosted its own TechWave developer/DBA symposium at SAP's TechEd conference!. During this event in Las Vegas, Sybase announced PowerBuilder 12.5, the second .NET release of its rapid application development tool. Built for creating "visually appealing" business applications on Windows 32 and .NET Frameworks, PowerBuilder 12.5 is now said to include WCF Services to create web services using the WCF model. There is also support for CVUOs in .NET assemblies, an enhancement designed to enable PowerBuilder users to share the productivity of the DataWindow with .NET developer peers. There is also PowerBuilder .NET assembly — used to create a PowerBuilder .NET target, then reference it in another PowerBuilder .NET project, without exposing the source code behind it.
According to Sybase, the new iteration of PowerBuilder 12.5 comes with multithreading support implemented through Shared Objects in PowerBuilder .NET (originally supported in PB Classic). There is also Batch Command Processing, which enables customers to run a batch file to build applications without any user intervention. Also present here is REST Client in PowerBuilder .NET, so that targets can be clients that consume RESTful (Representational State Transfer) web services.
Sybase PowerDesigner 16 was also been launched this month. This collaborative enterprise-modeling tool is, according to Sybase, "Enabling forward-thinking companies to achieve a clear and consistent Information Architecture throughout their enterprise." In more detail perhaps, we learn that PowerDesigner 16 now includes support for over 80 RDBMSs, more than any other modeling tool in the industry; a modernized, role-based user interface based on Windows 7 standards for improved usability and management; and an enterprise glossary to ensure business terms and definitions are established and consistently managed throughout all models to ensure everyone is speaking the same language. There is also improved Link & Sync technology with impact analysis in the repository to ensure users are gathering all the connections throughout the entire enterprise to provide mission-critical decision support.
Last but not least in this batch of news updates is SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition — a new product launched to fulfill the demand from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) for easier data management and deployment of multi-tenant, hosted applications. It provides cloud-specific tooling and features that allow ISVs to manage data for cloud applications that meet both their business needs and those of their customers.
The features of SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition include:
- Elastic Database Provisioning — scale up and scale down computing resources on demand; ability to share computing resources among tenants to achieve economies of scale; tenant data is isolated from all other tenants at the file level
- Tenant Scalability — designed to power "web scale" applications that grow to thousands of tenants
- Atomic Tenant Databases — each database treated individually, allowing for customer-specific customizations, backup solutions, and direct customer access; databases stored in known locations and can be restricted from moving to another
- Cloud Management Tools — designed to meet the needs of ISVs who are managing thousands of databases, hundreds of servers, and multiple versions of software and schemas.
Regards ... Chris
Friday, July 29, 2011
ISUG - PB 12.5 Workshop
** Hot News **
PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET Next-Step Workshop
TechWave 2011
Monday, September 12th, Las Vegas, NV
Monday, September 12th, Las Vegas, NV
The Next-Step Workshop will help you build a solid foundation for successful application coding with the PowerBuilder 12.5 WPF .NET 4.0 platform by incorporating everything you already know about Classic PowerBuilder with essential PowerBuilder .NET 4.0 elements. In addition to a succinct knowledge transfer, the workshop incorporates lab exercises in which you will build “from Soup to Nuts” a fully functional, well partitioned business application using best practices, elements of which you can reuse in your own app infrastructure. Details: Course Overview
Professional, craftsman level PowerBuilder Classic developers who are generally familiar with .NET and the capabilities of the PowerBuilder .NET WPF platform
What you can expect to gain
- Increased fluency in using the Visual Studio 2010 isolated shell IDE to code, test and deploy a multi-target solution containing PowerScript, .NET framework calls and DataWindow technology using a RAD methodology within the scope of a workgroup scale application
- Increased familiarity with PowerBuilder .NET Assemblies by coding and deploying logic as a service facade tier. You’ll also get a detailed look at the big picture, by interfacing a ‘Thin GUI’ WPF app to the assembly based service tier.
- Knowledge about and coding skills in, accessing distributed application services using RESTful interfaces by building a full blown business application whose functionality is based entirely on distributed services.
- Comprehensive foundational knowledge and skills in designing, coding and styling rich WPF UI using declarative XAML elements through putting a stylish UI on top of your service layer.
Prerequisites Bring your own wireless internet enabled notebook computer with an installed and working PowerBuilder .NET 12.5 with ASA and the EAS Demo v125 database. There will be no time to confirm your installation. Please do that before arriving at class. Optional installation of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express Edition
Course Developer and Trainer
Yakov Werde of eLearnIT LLC Certified Sybase Instructor, Sybase MVP, member TeamSybase
Location
Venetian Hotel, site of TechWave 2011. Exact room TBD. Lunch will be provided.
Monday, July 25, 2011
ISUG - Virual PB User Group, Aug 4, 2011
** Hot News **
ISUG - Virtual Meeting Announcement - PowerBuilder
ISUG is pleased to announce that their next meeting of the North American PowerBuilder Virtual User Group will be on August 4, 2011. This meeting will feature Mr. Don Clayton from Intertech Consulting who'll be discussing Building Thoroughly Modern Systems in PowerBuilder.
You can read all about the meeting details, time and how to register by clicking here!
Regards .... Chris
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Toad for ASE
** Hot News **
| Introducing Toad for Sybase: Tricks and Tips Date: Wednesday, July 27 Time: 8:30 PT / 11:30 ET Duration: 1 hour Join Toad expert Devin Gallagher as he reveals how you can use Toad for Sybase to dramatically simplify your development and database administration tasks. You’ll discover easy ways to proactively solve performance issues across your Sybase ASE, IQ, and SQL Anywhere databases. Plus, you’ll see how to:
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Regards ... Chris
Thursday, July 7, 2011
PBTV July, 2011
Hot News ...
Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV!
Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV!
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Note: PBTV is taking a break in August to gear up for Techwave, but will be back in September 2011 with a whole new set of exciting sessions.
Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!
Enjoy ... Chris
Thursday, June 9, 2011
OSUG Meeting - June 14, 2011
** Hot News! **
Please join us on Tuesday June 14, 2011 for the next Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) special event! OSUG's mission is to create a Sybase community in the National Capital area of Canada where users can share knowledge, experiences, and best practices. Users of all Sybase products, including data management, tools and mobility are welcome to attend. This meeting will feature networking opportunities, product updates and a discussion.
The OSUG June 14, 2011 meeting will be held in Ottawa at Constitution Square in the double Board Room (down the hallway from the Queen's University MBA lecture theater). Constitution Square is located at 350 Albert Street (at Lyon) just across the street from the Crowne Plaza hotel. Bus access is right to the door and parking is available at the hotel, in Constitution Square and across the street. The Double Board room is located on the second floor (center) and can be accessed from either the west or east elevators.
Days Agenda:
Time: Topic:
7:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am Introduction & welcome - Chris Pollach
9:00am Mobilizing your PB Applications to the Blackberry and iPhone
- Anthony Robinson & Chris Pollach
10:30am Coffee Break
10:45am PowerBuilder Road Map, New Features of PB 12.5,
PB Fresh from the Labs, HTML5 Demo
11:30am Mini Q&A session before lunch
12:45am Lunch
1:00pm Migrating a Win32 Application to .NET considerations - John Strano
2:15pm Coffee Break
2:30pm A Detailed walk through of PB 12.5 - John Strano
3:15pm Coffee Break
3:30pm Web Services everywhere - Chris Pollach
4:20pm Q & A Session
4:30pm Wrap-up (all)
How to Register
To register for the above event, please follow this link (click here). This will take you to the the ISUG website where the automated registration system will accept either ISUG members or non-members. Last years Canadian Technical Summit forced everyone who was registering to become a basic member (which is still free by the way). In the upgraded registration system, you now have a choice.
BTW: Everyone is welcome ... so I hope to see attendees again from Toronto, Montreal and northern New York state!
Location
The OSUG event will be held in the double-board room located in Constitution Square at 350 Albert Street, Ottawa, Ontario. The lecture rooms are located on the center section of the second floor level. For more information on Constitution Square, please click here!
Things to do
If you are coming from outside the National Capital region ...
- Alcatel Ottawa International Children's Festival - early June, five-day event aimed at families and children aged between 4 to 15 years old, with theatrical performances, dance and music
- Franco Ontarien Festival - mid-June, celebrating Canada's historic French origins and culture, with music, local arts and crafts, and many interesting exhibitions
- Fringe Festival - mid-June, with visual arts, buskers, musicians and performances
* BIO's *
John Strano
John Strano is a Sybase Technology Evangelist and a charter member of TeamSybase. He has been using PowerBuilder since 1991 and has authored articles for multiple industry periodicals. John has presented Sybase tools on an international basis since 1997. Over the last 15 years John has developed a variety of PowerBuilder applications from single-user scaling up to enterprise-class, web-based projects.
Anthony Robinson
Mr .Anthony Robinson is a Principal Systems Consultant for Sybase based in Ottawa, Canada. Anthony has been with Sybase since 2000. He worked for Sybase's American Federal team out of Bethesda Maryland until 2004, when he then transferred to Sybase Canada. Before joining Sybase, Anthony was a sales consultant with New Era Of Networks and a functional SAP consultant for SLI Consulting Inc.
Regards ... Chris
OSUG - Co-Ordinator
Monday, May 23, 2011
PBTV - June 2011 Schedule
** Hot News **
Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
Summer's almost here and so is the June 2011 webinar schedule!
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Regards ... Chris
Thursday, April 28, 2011
PBTV May 2011
*** Hot News **
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Regards ... Chris
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
PB12.5 Public Beta Has Started!
** Hot News **
The PowerBuilder version 12.5 public beta has started this week! You can join the program and download the software from this link <click here>. PB 12.5 includes the following new feature highlights (and more) ....
PowerBuilder 12.5 Features
- The ability to deploy custom visual user objects as .NET assemblies for use in other .NET applications.
- A new WCF Service feature that allows business logic written in PowerBuilder to be deployed as a web service.
- New options to make creating, compiling and deploying .NET applications faster and easier than ever before
- DataWindow enhancements for both WPF and PowerBuilder Classic.
- Language enhancements and support for .NET events
- The ability to call REST based web services
- Numerous IDE enhancements and more.
When you register to download PB 12.5, you will also be able to download further documentation that describes in detail the new and revised features of both PB Classic and PB.Net.
Enjoy!
Regards ... Chris
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
PowerBuilder 12.5 – Get Ready!
** Hot News **
PowerBuilder 12.5 Overview
The PowerBuilder 12.5 Beta will be available in April, 2011 and this webcast will give you an overview of the new features included in this release. Attendees will learn about features like WCF Services, deploying custom visual user objects (CVUOs) as .NET assemblies, DataWindow enhancements, and more.
Europe
Time: 12:00pm EDT (New York) / 18:00 CEST (Paris)
Presenter: Dave Fish
Register: Click here
North America
Tuesday, April 26, 20111:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
(10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT)
Presenter: Dave Fish
Register: Click here
PowerBuilder 12.5 – Get Ready, ‘Cause Here It Comes!
Regards ... Chris
Monday, March 28, 2011
PBTV April, 2011
Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
Happy 1st birthday PowerBuilderTV - 1 year old on April.1, 2011!
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
TechCast
ISUG TECHCAST
The North American PowerBuilder Virtual User Group and mLogica Present:
Carving Up Classic Client/Server Applications for .NET Deployment Using the New .NET Project Partitioning Feature
Sponsored by: 
The March 12.1 PowerBuilder EBF contains a new tool and technology that enables you to overcome deployment issues that might impede .NET migration. You might even be able to organize your code in a way that enables you to restore RAD development to its rightful position in PowerBuilder.NET deployment.
Yakov Werde, member of TeamSybase and a PowerBuilder MVP will walk you though the ins and outs of the new partitioning feature "by-example". He'll demonstrate the proper use of the new tool that allows you to configure your deployment architecture. He'll also show you how to work around issues that might surface during partitioning. He'll explain how to determine inter-assembly dependencies, determine if any circular dependencies exist, reorganize your code object storage scheme to eliminate them, and determine where you will store your global types
Wednesday, March 23rd
10am-11am PDT
1pm-2pm EDT
5-6pm GMT
10am-11am PDT
1pm-2pm EDT
5-6pm GMT
Regards ... Chris
Thursday, February 24, 2011
PB.NET Debugger
** Hot News **
"Kool" Webinar Coming!
The presentation will feature some cool and powerful new features that PowerBuilder can now
leverage via the Visual Studio shell. You host - John Strano - will be covering topics such as:
- Debugger advantages with the VS Isolated Shell
- Drag and drop breakpoint locations
- Variable Watch window
- TipWatch
- Conditonal breakpoints on specific variable values and number of loop
- iterations (Hit counts)
- Conditionally printing to an output log
- Running to a specified function on the call stack
- Stepping into, through and out of C#!
Click here to register for this webcast. http://app.en25.com/e/er.aspx?s=184&lid=14423&elq=3b3e967136a34b348cea246bf61d9c33
For more information on PowerBuilder 12 please visit www.sybase.com/powerbuilder12.
Regards ... Chris
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
PBTV March 2011
Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
For March, take some time to update your PowerBuilder skills and applications with PBTV webinars ...
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Regards .. Chris
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
PBTV February 2011
Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV!
Kung Hay Fat Choy!
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