PBTV - September, 2013

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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV

 

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 8:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) - 17h00 CET (Paris) Latest News from the PowerBuilder World Like many in the PowerBuilder world, you're probably eager for some more news! Join us for an exciting and informative webcast from the PowerBuilder sphere: a panel of presenters from the community will be discussing the future of PowerBuilder and possible evolutions for your applications. A number of topics will be covered including PB15, PB & HANA, Upcoming PB Events, New PB add-ons and more! Panelists: Bruce Armstrong, Matt Balent, Christophe Dufourmantelle, Armeen Mazda, Chris Pollach, and Yakov Werde Register

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 9 AM PST (Los Angeles) - 18h00 CET (Paris) Showcase: Creating a Mobile Application - Tips and Tricks - This presentation will explain the steps Filiberto Sosa followed to develop a mobile application from scratch with PowerBuilder and Appeon Mobile. Filiberto 's application uses a self-designed menu system developed with DataWindows that allows image integration and an improved interface for mobile devices. He will explain the structure of this application, used for Consultation Reports by company directors, to take inventory with a laser barcode scanner that communicates via Bluetooth to iOS devices. Finally we will discuss the expected changes he is planning to do in his application. Presenter: Filiberto Sosa Register

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 Regards ... Chris

  

Appeon 2013 - EBF Released

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Appeon Web & Mobile EBF #0193

    August 02, 2013 - Appeon Corporation is excited to announce that the Appeon Web & Mobile EBF #0193 is now available. In addition to the fixes designed to address reported problems, this release contains some feature enhancements and new functionality as well. Appeon also spent significant time optimizing the core features of Appeon 2013! Specifically ...

Feature Enhancements:

• (Appeon Web) IE 10: Make the Web application more compatible with the IE 10 browser.  

•  (Appeon Mobile) String functions: Provide a configurable Charset mapping function in Appeon Developer, to eliminates the errors when there is double-byte character handling involved in mobile applications, because of the different character encoding in handling double-byte Charset between iOS and Windows.  You may need to use this function, if your mobile application uses any string function that ends with “A”.

New Features

• (Appeon Mobile) iOS Map API: Enables developers to build web applications with feature rich, interactive iOS maps.

• (Appeon Web) Client Log Files : Adding Client Log functions for Appeon Web solution to help debugging/troubleshooting client side issues.

• (Both Web & Mobile) Stored Procedure Update: Support using Stored Procedure to update the database.

Bug Fixes

• Please refer to EBF #193's bug fix list.

Download

• For users with the Appeon 2013 product already installed and valid support agreement, you can download the software by clicking here!

Regards ... Chris

Save PowerBuilder

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PowerBuilder Petition

Help Convince SAP to take positive action with PowerBuilder

  Bruce Armstrong has created an online petition directed to the Board of Directors of SAP. Bruce would like SAP know that there are a lot of PowerBuilder customers who are still using the product and need to see support and direction.

  To sign Bruce's petition - click here!

Regards ... Chris

ISUG-Tech Feedback Needed

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Attention ISUG Members

    ISUG-TECH is working toward putting on a conference in 2014 that will cater to both developers, DBAs and others. We are currently soliciting member feedback for this event and would like to hear from you!

    Please complete this survey to help them gather important conference data ... Click Here!

ISUG-Tech thanks you!

Regards ... Chris

SOA

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Building SOA Applications with PowerBuilder

   eLearnIT LLC, global independent provider of  SAP PowerBuilder developer eTraining, seminars workshops and application consulting, in cooperation with the Independent SAP Technical User Group (ISUG-Tech) is pleased to announce the general availability of the online version of its Building SOA Applications with PowerBuilder, WCF & IIS workshop. The workshop sports comprehensive, challenging lab exercises during which a developer will use the full range of PowerBuilder .NET’s WCF capabilities to code a comprehensive business and logic service layer and deploy it into IIS.  Using a best practice approach, they will alter a WPF rich GUI client application to access that logic.

At the end of the workshop a developer should be able to

• Comfortably navigate the PowerBuilder VS .NET IDE to code and deploy client and service non-visual objects
• Recognize and implement best practice PowerBuilder client and service coding patterns that should be implemented during a client/server to a SOA migration or new SOA application
• Use the PowerBuilder Classic 12.5, PowerBuilder .NET 12.5 and MS IIS 7.5 to code & deploy basic client & server elements of a multi-tiered (distributed) application using both REST and SOAP based WS technologies
• Modify and configure a Classic PowerBuilder application to function as a web service client
• List and define the main features of .NET 4.0 WCF and use PowerBuilder .NET tools to configure both client and service elements to conform to them
• Use the Web Service DataWindow to access services, recognizing its strengths & limitations
• Use ADO.NET connection pools and IIS application pools to improve performance
• Properly choose among service instance models for various kinds of service logic
• Configure clients and services for Per-Instance, Per-Session and Singleton access
• Configure services and clients to report and handle processing faults (exceptions)
• Design, deploy and configure data centric logic in a robust transactional manner
• Configure services for use in durable transactional scenarios and code clients to recognize and respond to transactional failure
• Recognize, list and describe Security issues and discuss how WCF & PowerBuilder .NET addresses them
• Deploy and configure services and clients using various Authorization and Access mechanisms

For details on getting started, an information about eLearnIT’s other acclaimed PowerBuilder courses and multi-developer discounts visit http://my.isug.com/training/pb

Regards ... Chris

PB Central

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New PowerBuilder Website - PowerBuilder Central

What is PowerBuilder Central

All the latest news on all things PowerBuilder.

   PowerBuilder is the most productive way to build data-driven, business applications.
Whether you wish to develop desktop, web or mobile applications, this site brings together resources from around the web to create a single source for your PowerBuilder needs.

Consulting:

• Visit this section to find a consultant operating in your area. Their contact information and competencies are listed: development, version, web and mobile migration.  

Training:

• A list of resources available to train developers in PB.

Events:

• Upcoming PowerBuilder events around the world.  

Discussion Groups:

• Have a PowerBuilder related question? 
• Try posting it in one of these forums.

Blogs:

• Hear what the experts have to say about PowerBuilder.   

Success Stories:

• Find out why and how companies are using PowerBuilder for their enterprise applications.

To find out more ... click here: 

 

Regards ... Chris

PBTV - August, 2013

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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV

 

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Deploy Legacy PocketBuilder Apps onto Modern Mobile Devices

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

9:00am PST (Los Angeles) / 18:00 CET (Paris)

During this presentation, Scott Ewine, Industry Solution Executive at Ventyx, an ABB Company, will show you how they've been able to move their  legacy PocketBuilder Applications onto Modern Mobile Devices like iOS and Android in only 2 hours with Appeon Mobile.  Some of the key requirements for the application will be discussed.

Presenter: Scott Ewine

Register

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A SaaS System Written in PB/Appeon

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

at 8:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles) - 17h00 CET (Paris)

This webinar will give you an interesting overview of the system and technology used in a SaaS system written in PB and Appeon as well as dive into some technical details. Gian Luca De Bonis will talk about the "client" module, web services, multilingual implementation for both UI and data, the scripttron programming language and the related command processor, and the graphic ActiveX used.

Presenter: Gian Luca De Bonis

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Regards ... Chris

  

Refer a Friend

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ISUG-TECH Refer A Friend

   By referring a friend to join ISUG-TECH, you will be providing that friend a membership discount and you too can be a winner too!

Your name will go into a monthly drawing for a $50 Gift card and your name will then stay in the pot to increase your chances of winning in the draw month-after-month.For each friend you refer to ISUG-TECH, you will be offering that friend a 10% discount on their ISUG-TECH Gold Membership. Five key benefits of an ISUG-TECH Gold Membership are:

• Special 39% "Techie" discount to SAP's TechEd Conference in Las Vegas (Oct. 21-25)
• Wide range of other attractive business and personal discounts, plus access to free software for own use
• ISUG-TECH Journal mailed directly to you, plus online access to further technical information on ASE, HANA, IQ, PowerBuilder, Replication Server, PowerDesigner, etc.
• Invitations to ISUG Technical Webcasts
• Privileged access to hands-on training sessions and roadshow events

Simply provide your contact information and your friend’s contact information and if your friend joins, you'll get a chance to win the $50 prize! To give your friend an extra incentive, ISUG-TECH will give him or her a chance to win too for joining as well! There is also no limit on the number of referrals.

And it gets even better ... with every referral you get, you will be awarded points towards the grand prize - a complimentary ISUG-TECH Gold membership valid for three years! Remember, these points accumulate throughout the year until December 15, 2013 when we'll notify the winner.

Look for the special email sent to all ISUG-TECH members about this opportunity starting in July, 2013!

TechEd

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    ISUG-TECH wants to let their Gold Members know that they can attend SAP's TechEd Conference in Las Vegas, October 21-25, 2013, for a special discounted price!

  SAP has made available a limited number of special "lecture only" passes that can be purchased for just $1695, a $1100 savings of the cost of the full conference pass. These passes are available only to ISUG-TECH Gold Members, and enable the pass holder to attend all keynotes, lecture sessions and special events at the conference, along with access to the exhibit hall and clubhouse. (Holders of the pass will not be able to register for or attend any hands-on workshops.)

   These special passes are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The number of available passes  is limited, so do not wait until the last minute to register – you may be too late! Registration instructions are available on the 'My Benefits' page for Gold members.

  Regards ... Chris

PBTV - July 2013

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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 8:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles) - 17h00 CET (Paris) Latest NEWS from the POWERBUILDER World Like many in the PowerBuilder world, you're probably eager for some news! Join us for an exciting and informative webcast from the PowerBuilder sphere: a panel of presenters from the community will be discussing the future of PowerBuilder and possible evolutions for your applications. A number of topics will be covered including PB15, PB & HANA, Upcoming PB Events, New PB add-ons and more! Register

Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles) - 18h00 CET (Paris) Make your application multilingual in one hour In this webinar, Gian Luca De Bonis will show an application that is not only running in PowerBuilder and with Appeon, but also he will show you in detail how he made this application multilingual. By the end of the hour, you will see how to upgrade a monolingual application into multilingual application running both in PB and Appeon! Presenter: Gian Luca De Bonis Register

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles) - 18h00 CET (Paris) PowerBuilder and HANA; Rich Client RAD for Big Data HANA is a crucial element in SAP's growth march. HANA's potential for real-time big data based business support, places it at the center of an increasing number of SAP ERP and other applications. PowerBuilder's RAD capabilities make it the ideal tool for building new or extending existing rich client applications on top the HANA platform. Some industry insiders have suggested that PowerBuilder's continued viability as development platform depends on its ability to contribute to the HANA platform. In this presentation, SAP Mentor Yakov Werde will succinctly introduce HANA technology, and show you have you can configure an inexpensive HANA development environment, connect PowerBuilder to it and begin exploring how HANA technology and skills can enrich your professional career and potentially improve your applications Presenter: Yakov Werde Register

AUGUST "sneak peak"  ...   Deploy Legacy PocketBuilder Apps onto Modern Mobile Devices Tuesday, August 6, 2013 A SaaS System Written in PB/Appeon Tuesday, August 27, 2013 ShowCase : PowerBuilder App going Mobile (SPANISH) Tuesday, August 20, 2013 Introduction to Appeon Mobile 1.5 TBA

Regards ... Chris