Birthday wishes ...

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Happy Birthday!

Ottawa Sybase User Group - 20th Anniversary 

Founded: May 24, 1992 by Chris Pollach

 

ISUG Benefit Update

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Appeon Benefit Updated to 6.5.1

   The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) is pleased to inform their members that the Appeon for PowerBuilder benefit that is available to our Green & Gold members has been updated to the latest version 6.5.1!

   Due the size of the download, there are now four files for each version (32 or 64 bit).  These will need to be downloaded and unzipped together for a successful installation. ISUG users though should find that the download speed is much better from this mirrored location.

   If you've downloaded Appeon previously, be sure to update to this new version.  And if you tried earlier versions of Appeon but had problems, be sure to try it out again as the current product is orders of magnitude more stable and efficient than previous versions!

  If you are not an ISUG member - why not join now ... click here!

Regards ... Chris

OSUG Meeting - May 24, 2012

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Come celebrate OSUG's 20th Birthday!

 Dear Sybase User;

     Please join us on Thursday May 24, 2012 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 May 24, 2012 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.

 Securely Taking Your PB Applications to the Web, Cloud, and Mobile Space!

Days Agenda (Tentative):

Time:          Topic:

7:45am       Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45am       Introduction & welcome - Chris Pollach
9:00am       Webifying your PowerBuilder applications - Armeen Mazda
                   - Web enabling using Appeon 6.5.1
                   - Considerations for Cloud computing
                   - Appeon 7.0 road map
10:30am     Coffee Break
10:45am     PowerBuilder 15 Road Map (update) - John Strano
                  - HTML5 DataWindow Server
11:30am     Mini Q&A session before lunch

12:45am     Lunch (with a Special Birthday Surprise)

1:00pm      Sybase Unwired Platform Update - Anthony Robinson
                   - making PB applications work with SUP
 2:15pm     Coffee Break
 2:30pm     Appeon Mobile - Armeen Mazda
                  - Taking PB applications to the Tablet & Smart Phones
                   - Integrating Appeon Mobile apps with SUP
                   - Deploying Appeon Mobile apps with Afaria.
 3:15pm     Coffee Break
 3:30pm     Afaria - Anthony Antonello
                  - Securing your remote device and data.
 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 ... Visit the Ottawa this May and see the city come alive with colour when a million tulips create an exotic mosaic throughout the city. Celebrate our rich heritage and history as you explore Canada's Capital and our Country's close ties with the Netherlands who offer a gift of 20,000 tulips each year - Ottawa Tulip Festival. 

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   Anthony Antonello

    Mr .Anthony Antonello is the Technical Director for Sybase Canada based in Ottawa, Canada.


   Armeen Mazda

    Armeen Mazda has been a key member of the initial team that founded Appeon and is currently the President & CEO of Appeon. Armeen has worked with Sybase and PowerBuilder technologies since 2000 and served various roles in Appeon, including Product Management, Business Development, and Operations. Armeen is a graduate of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and holds 5 U.S. patents in the area of Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies.

   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.

  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.

  
Regards ... Chris
OSUG - Co-Ordinator

PB12.NET Training Day

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    The International Sybase User Group in conjunction with eLearnIt Systems is now offering a new one day PowerBuilder 12.NET training course. In this a full day of training where you will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare you to plan, perform a .NET migration and tips on re-factoring your enterprise level based PowerBuilder Classic applications.  You will able to follow-along with instructor led demonstrations using provided code examples if you bring your own notebook with verified functioning installations of PowerBuilder 12.1 Classic and .NET and SQL AnyWhere 11.

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Topics include:

•  .NET Revealed:

          * What is it?
          * What are the important features and how do they affect your PowerBuilder application?
          * Why might .NET be (or not be) important to you?

• Migrating from Classic to .NET WPF

          See how to:
          * To plan for your own application migration by getting an overview of the .NET migration process
          * To plan for re-factoring your code to lessen the impact of not supported features
          * Performance differences between the platforms might impact your existing code
          * GUI differences between the platforms might impact your code

• Future proofing your code, planning for today, tomorrow and beyond.

      The .NET and Classic platforms are intrinsically different. A large application that took seconds to modify and test in the IDE will takes many minutes to modify and test in the .NET IDE. In order to continue at a high productivity level you must partition your code into a series of related .NET assemblies. In this segment you will gain learn the basics of application logic partitioning and how to use the IDE to carve your application into smaller manageable pieces

• Visual Studio IDE tips & tricks

      The new .NET IDE is similar to but different than the Classic IDE in fundamental ways. The goal of this presentation. Increase your initial and ongoing productivity by learning how to leverage many of the new features that the Visual Studio IDE offers. Included is a demonstration of configuring and working with source code control.

• WCF and web services: Creating .NET web service client applications with examples and demonstrations

      Windows Communication Foundation is a new feature of .NET 3.5. WCF will be an imperative when SilverLight support is implemented. It is required when you migrate Classic Applications that are Web Service Clients to .NET or need to code new web service client applications in PB 12.NET. Learn the basics of WCF. Observe the process of building a Web Service Client app.

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       To have this course brought to your area, please contact your local Sybase User Group to arrange a class in your locale.


Regards ... Chris

Canadian Technology Summit

    For the first time in our history, the Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) held a two day event hosting many Sybase professionals, 3rd party vendors, user presentations, senior management participation, etc culminating in an event I would like to call the "Canadian Technical Summit". This event had two streams - one Data Management and the other Development. There was even a "cocktail reception" on the Tuesday night! The event covered subject areas such as: SMS messaging from PB 12.NET, Taking your PowerBuilder applications to the Web; Data Warehousing, Replication, Sybase and SAS, Data Modeling, Database Monitoring and Performance, ASE and PB tools, Product Futures, Mobility, etc just to highlight some key areas. On the Development side we saw evangelist John Strano showing us the latest PB 12.NET from engineering, best practices and another training session. For Data Management we had senior Sybase VP Brian Vink addressing key product futures, Mobility and presentations on comparing various Data Modeling approaches. We also had access to key Sybase technical staff from Canada and the USA to ask questions about Sybase products, interact with users utilizing the same technologies and gain key information into 2010 based products and features.  

    For attendees and friends of the Canadian Technology Summit at the Ottawa Sybase User Group, please find below the downloads to the various presentations that were given ...

1) State of the Nation - Brian Vink  (VP Database Products - Sybase)
2) Opening Remarks - Chris Pollach  (President - OSUG)
3) Appeon for PowerBuilder - Armeen Mazda (CEO - Appeon )
4) Appeon Web Application Case Study - Armeen Mazda (CEO - Appeon)
5) PowerBuilder 11.5 Solving Top Business Problems - John Strano (Technical Evangelist - Sybase)
6) PowerBuilder is .NET - John Strano (Technical Evangelist - Sybase)
7) Bradmark Surveillance for Database - Cindy Bean ( Technical Specialist  - Bradmark)
8) Real-Time Analytics Platform - Chris Baker (Principal Consultant - Sybase)
9) PowerBuilder Protect - Christophe Dufourmantelle (CEO - Novalys)
10) Visual Expert - Christophe Dufourmantelle (CEO - Novalys)
11) Novalys Corporate Overview   - Christophe Dufourmantelle (CEO - Novalys)
12) Visual Guard for PowerBuilder - Christophe Dufourmantelle (CEO - Novalys)
13)  Visual Guard Enterprise - Christophe Dufourmantelle (CEO - Novalys)
14) Customization Studio -  Christophe Dufourmantelle (CEO - Novalys)
15) Beyond Data Modeling with PowerDesigner - Matt Creason (Principal Consultant - Sybase)
16) Mobilizing  SAP, Peoplesoft and Remedy - Anthony Robinson (Principal Consultant - Sybase)
17) Heterogeneous Replication and Disaster Recovery - Anthony Robinson (Principal Consultant - Sybase)
18) Enterprise Information Architecture - Stan Loche (Principal Consultant - Sybase)

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    Please find below the downloads to the various PowerBuilder 11.5 examples used by John Strano in his lectures ...  PB11.5 Solving Your Top Business Problems - John Strano (Technical Evangelist - Sybase)

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    Please find below the downloads to the various PowerBuilder 12.NET examples used by John Strano in his lectures ...  PB 12 / PB12.NET Code Examples - John Strano (Technical Evangelist - Sybase)

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    If you encounter any problems with the downloads or have suggestions for future meetings - please drop me a note. Enjoy and thanks again for coming  ... Chris!