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Happy Birthday!
Ottawa Sybase User Group - 20th Anniversary
Founded: May 24, 1992 by Chris Pollach
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
PowerBuilder Mobile
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Why PB developers should consider developing for iPads, and how to get there!
Regards ... Chris
Thursday, May 3, 2012
PBTools
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PbTools is a PowerBuilder Application that includes some useful applications for PowerBuilder from version 5 to 12.5 and is written by Murat Yelkovan. A new version of the PBTools utility has just been released this month! The new build (#75) and its predecessors contain some great features for the PB developer, for example:
Grid Datawindow
- You can list all datawindows in your application and change header band colors with one click.
- You can compare two libraries or targets to check if they have same objects.
- Search for duplicate objects in your application.
- You can replace one text with new one in your project.
You can analyze your project and see all sqls. This application will calculate which database permissions are needed to run this application.
All this and much more! Download this free utility now by following this link: PBTools.
Enjoy!
Regards ... Chris
Friday, April 27, 2012
FastFuncs for PowerBuilder
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Fast Functions for PowerBuilder!
Jermery Lakeman has developed a set of functions designed to really optimize a number of common operations used by many PowerBuilder applications. These common functions (called FastFuncs) have been implemented using PowerBuilders internal system direct call interface to give the maximum possible performance!
The set of FastFuncs functions include (to highlight a few): bit-wise operations, string building, string replace all, string splitting, and a function to obtain the current stack trace.
Enjoy!
Regards ... Chris
Friday, April 20, 2012
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
Thursday, April 12, 2012
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
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
PowerBuilderTV - May, 2012
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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
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Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!
Regards ... Chris
Sunday, March 25, 2012
PowerBuilder Mobile
Are you a PowerBuilder developer and is your organization considering developing Mobile applications?
Then your help is needed!
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| Who is going mobile? |
Discover what PowerBuilder Projects are working on. Did you know that 70 million tablets were sold this year? By 2015, it is predicted tablet sales will surpass PC sales! A lot of PowerBuilder projects are preparing for this evolution ... Are you?
Fill this survey, and you will discover:
- How many PowerBuilder projects are planning to go mobile
- Which devices and OS they intend to support
- How many user would typically access these applications
- How they will distribute their mobile applications
- Etc…
The final results will be sent to all participants!
Many thanks in advance ... Chris
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Appeon Mobile
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Novalys and Appeon announce partnership
to distribute Appeon Mobile worldwide!
to distribute Appeon Mobile worldwide!
Novalys SAS announced on March 7, 2012 that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Appeon Corporation to distribute the first-ever mobility solution for the PowerBuilder community. Leveraging Appeon’s over a decade of experience in PowerBuilder web deployment and its core technology platform, Appeon is developing a mobile deployment solution for PowerBuilder – Appeon Mobile. Appeon Mobile will offer the simplest, fastest, and lowest-cost mobile development option for the PowerBuilder developer community. Under the agreement, Novalys will market, sell, and support Appeon Mobile worldwide.
In response to growing demand from the PowerBuilder community for mobility, Appeon Mobile will enable developers to rapidly build mobile applications exclusively with the PowerBuilder and using existing programming skills. This empowers developers to leverage their existing investments in PowerBuilder and the unbeatable productivity that PowerBuilder offers. Now mobile applications can be built in just weeks instead of months using one development tool for the iOS and Android based mobile devices.
"Appeon Mobile is really exciting for PowerBuilder; it allows developers to meet evolving business needs, as mobility becomes a necessity” said Christophe Dufourmantelle, CEO of Novalys. "Now, PowerBuilder developers can build data-driven enterprise apps without the productivity loss and headaches inherent to using standalone tools like Xcode."
From the PowerBuilder IDE, Appeon Mobile will automatically generate native mobile applications that deploy universally to all supported mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets. DataWindows, nested reports, and many rich PowerBuilder functionalities previously unimaginable on mobile devices will be at users’ fingertips. These rich mobile applications are database-driven, powered by either a Java or .NET middleware that is compatible with leading commercial databases, including Sybase, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. Server-side integration is also supported with Java, .NET, Web Services and/or Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP).
"Novalys is the best source of PowerBuilder companion products, offering high-value-add solutions, such as VisualExpert, VisualGuard, and Customization Studio," said Armeen Mazda, CEO of Appeon. "Appeon is excited to have Novalys as our PowerBuilder mobility partner.".
Novalys is an international software vendor, founded in 1998, privately held, with subsidiaries and distributors in North America, Europe, South America, Middle East and Asia. They develop and distribute software development tools dedicated to PowerBuilder and .NET projects. For more information visit their website: Novalys
Appeon Corporation was founded in 1999, is a global provider of software and services for modernizing the application architecture of enterprises. They specialize in software development tools and consulting services that dramatically reduce the time, cost, and risk of developing line-of-business applications. Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on Appeon technology. For more information visit their website: Appeon
Regards ... Chris
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Take PB to the Web, Mobile & More!
Do you want to go to the Web? Embrace Java or .NET?
Your client/server applications work well, and you have invested a lot in them but you need to keep up with the times and move your applications to the Web. So you may wonder “What should we do? Do we really need to junk our existing applications? Retrain our developers? Hire new guys who know nothing about our business?”If that’s the case, take a look at Appeon for PowerBuilder- Migrate your PB code to a web-based application, for a fraction of the cost of a full re-write in .Net or Java.
- Developments remain in PowerBuilder: no need to change or retrain the developers.
The PB code is automatically converted to .NET or Java during deployment. - The Web User Interface is identical to the Client/Server one:
Users keep the same interface they are already comfortable with. - Impressive performance for complex and demanding screens.
- Allows for rich client-side integration (Microsoft Office, Printers…), drag-and-drop, hot keys, file functions and registry functions that you wouldn't expect on the Web.
- Applications are accessible with a simple Internet browser.
- You can deploy to most Java or .NET application Servers
- Support for PowerBuilder 12.5, Windows 7…
- Deployment to multi-instance servers
- Calls to web services without any additional plug-ins
Appeon Certified Partners
Novalys: http://appeon.novalys.net
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