SCN Topic Leader 2014

Thank you SAP for this honour!

(now 2 years in a row)

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Dear Chris, It is my pleasure to send you this certificate in appreciation of your contributions in the PowerBuilder Developer Center space. Congratulations on being an SCN Topic Leader for 2013-2014. Once again, thank you for contributing your expertise to SCN and congratulations on your outstanding achievement. Best regards, Caroleigh Deneen SAP Community Network

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Regards ... Chris

2015 PB Conference - Call for papers!

** Call for Session Abstracts **

2015 Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference

CALL FOR SESSIONS ANNOUNCED

     Now is your chance to ‘feed’ the PowerBuilder Community by presenting a session at the conference. As a whole we can only get stronger by coming together and sharing ideas, know-how, and experiences! Showcase your achievements in front of your peers – help us all grow through exposure to new thinking updated ideas.

     For more information, please click here!

Moving at the speed of change!

Regards ... Chris

2015 Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference

** Hot News **

Moving at the Speed of Change

    The North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group (ncpbug.org), Appeon Corporation and Novalys are pleased to announce the 2015 Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference to be held on May 6-7-8 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina.  As with the successful inaugural event in 2014, the focus of the conference is the unparalleled Rapid Application Development tool PowerBuilder

   As part of the PowerBuilder World Tour, the Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference brings the latest news and information on all things Appeon and PowerBuilder. Appeon will have product experts available to present the latest product roadmap and answer questions on current and future plans for the product. This is your opportunity to have your questions answered and see Appeon Mobile first hand.

   Learn how to quickly modernize and extend your PowerBuilder applications with Web, Mobile, and Cloud technologies from Appeon Corporation. See how to upgrade the look and feel of traditional PB apps with new GUI components and internationalization tools available from Novalys.

   Attend sessions on current GUI design and application development from industry veterans. Workshops on topics such as stored procedure debugging, getting the most out of your source control system, and the "how-to's" of working with application frameworks are in the mix right now.

   More than fifty hours of PowerBuilder specific content is planned for the Conference.  You will not find a better PowerBuilder value for your hard earned dollars anywhere in North America. Pre-registration for the three day event is only $295 – that's 40% off the normal registration price of $495!

Regards ... Chris

Evangelist Homage

** End of an Era **

PowerBuilder Homage - Dave Fish

   Sadly, I have just learned that SAP have displaced one of the best PowerBuilder evangelist resources that I have personally known since PB creator David Litwack introduced me to the first evangelist at PowerSoft - Bill Rabkin. Apparently, this comes on the heels of SAP shuttering the complete Denver office along with many other once Sybase resources.

   Dave Fish had over 29 years of experience in software development, and over 16 years of experience working for Sybase and SAP.  He began using PowerBuilder in 1993 and after joining Sybase held roles as a Professional Services consultant and as a PowerBuilder Evangelist. For the past four years he has been primarily focusing on mobile and web technology.

  Dave also ran a PowerBuilder blog based website with a plethora of information on the PowerBuilder product (click here). Dave was also well published in the ISUG Technical Journal and the PowerBuilder Developers Journal. One of Dave's best articles that I liked was on the future of PowerBuilder (click here).

   Dave is now an independent consultant, and is advising clients on mobile application and platform implementations. Dave also recently joined the ISUG-Tech Board of Directors as well.  Dave  significantly contributed to the continued prowess of the PowerBuilder product over the past decade and deserves - IMHO - accolades for his outstanding work! I think that Bill Rabkin (the founding father of PB Evangelism) would join me in saying that we (the PB community) appreciate your efforts on our behalf. Your exit from the PowerBuilder product scene is certainly going to be a loss for the entire PB ecosystem!

Dave ... we (the real PB developers) salute you!

Regards ... Chris

PowerBuilder TV - Fall 2014

** Hot News **

Up Coming Seminars - Fall 2014!

Deploy your PowerBuilder Applications across Multiple Browsers

Presenter: Armeen Mazda
Date and time: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 1800 PM CET (Paris)
In this webinar, the presenter will show you how to build apps for all major Web browsers on Windows OS: IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Get a first peak at how Appeon 2015 takes the pain out of deploying Web apps for multiple browsers by compiling web apps into a standard base and eliminating the need for configuration on different browsers. See a demonstration of this with real code examples.
Looking to deploy your PB applications to Web and Mobile devices?
Join us for this first sneak peak of Appeon for PowerBuilder 2015! REGISTER NOW



 

Integrate Fingerprint Security in Web Applications

Presenter: Filiberto Sosa
Date and time: Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 1800 CET (Paris)
Filiberto Sosa will talk about the NeuroTechnology Drivers used to integrate Fingerprint security in applications deployed to the web using Appeon. It is used to assure the accuracy of monitoring time and attendance as well as customer identification. Also, he will explain the different functions that are needed to Read and Write the fingerprints and also how to compare them to see if they match. The fingerprints are PNG files that also need to be stored in the Appeon Server when doing a comparison. They will need to be downloaded to make the match. All of this will be explained in a one hour session.  REGISTER NOW




Regards ... Chris

Appeon World Tour - Fall 2014

** Hot News **

2014 Appeon World Tour Continues!

Appeon World Tour

Appeon hosts global conferences for customers, Appeon Business Partners, and industry experts to share best practices, explore new technologies and network with business and technical decision-makers. Join us at one or more of our global events, offered in multiple locations year-round.

Appeon looks forward to seeing you at a Appeon World Tour event. For any questions and updates related to the Appeon world tour, please contact us at: ibd@appeon.com.

World Tour 2014 ... Fall Schedule:
DATE                   LOCATION
October 7-8         Milan, Italy
October 9            Paris, France
Oct 13-14            Berlin, Germany
October 16          Zurich, Switzerland


Italy - Open for Registration
On Oct 7-8, Appeon and our local partner will host a two-day seminar in Milan, and it is now open for registration. Join us there, be the first one to experience the latest version of Appeon and get advanced Mobile training.
MORE INFO  REGISTER


Regards .... Chris

PDBJ Magazine - End of Life

** End of an ERA **

  I just wanted to formerly acknowledge the end of a great PowerBuilder Community resource ... the PowerBuilder Developers Journal magazine. In case you had not noticed, the last publication of the magazine was on March 6, 2013. Also, online digital editions had ceased to be updated since the end of 2009. As of late, you can not subscribe to the PBDJ magazine either - only various the Syscon news letters.

   Just to make sure, I tried to contact my PBDJ editor Nancy Valentine and then to be even more pragmatic emailed the VP sales, subscriptions, etc contacts as well. All of these contacts are published on the Syscon website but the emails were returned as undeliverable. From there, I went to the Utilizer website and tried to contact them as Utilizer now controls Syscon. The final response I received from them is that the PBDJ Magazine was no longer but the PBDJ web portal was still running.

  The PDBJ web portal does still accept articles written by Utilizer authors and verified RSS feeds like the one I have from this blog to PBDJ. This means that you can still publish to the PBDJ web portal using either of these mechanisms. Looking the PBDJ website though ( http://pbdj.sys-con.com ) most of the current articles are actually from my blog transferred over to PBDJ via my automatic RSS feed. So not much new content related to PB seems to be evident these days.

  I would also really like to thank Bruce Armstrong for all his years of service to the PBDJ

Magazine as it's editor and also for writing many great PowerBuilder articles loaded with great technical information.

Unfortunately, with the demise of the PBDJ magazine, the whole PB community has lost another great resource in the PB Ecosystem!


Regards ... Chris

 
  

SAP Withdraws PowerBuilder 15 and Releases 12.6 Instead!

** Hot News **

SAP withdraws PowerBuilder 15!

  In a surprise move this week, SAP cancelled the much anticipated PowerBuilder 15 release and released instead PowerBuilder version 12.6. The product announcement was made by PB product manager Sue Dunnell on the SAP website (click here).

  The new features of PB 12.6 are mainly focused on PowerBuilder Classic. Highlights include: support for OData; 64 bit compilation (note that the IDE is still 32 bit); and Dockable Windows. Due to the limited new feature list, speculation in the PB Community is that SAP decided not to release PB 15 as this would be an embarrassment after nearly 4 years since PB 12.5 was released.

  SAP currently has no solid road-map for PB 15 and the last update for this was in 2011. So it is unclear where SAP will take PB in the future - especially given PB.Net`s lackluster adoption in the market place.

  The only real bright spot in the PB community is the Appeon Web and Appeon Mobile products produced by Appeon Corporation. These products support PowerBuilder versions 8 through now 12.6. In the highly wanted modernization arena, Appeon certainly delivers the future now for the PB developer.

Regards ... Chris

Free ASE & IQ Software

** Hot Tip **

Free Developers Edition of either SAP Sybase ASE or IQ!

ASE

   The developer's edition has most license options enabled, but only restricted with a light limit of 25 user connections and may not be used for production purposes. When you're running ASE on Linux you won't be able to run it on older versions of Linux such as RedHat 7.x - you really need to run RH Enterprise Linux (or similar).

   The free Developer's Edition for ASE 16.0 can be downloaded here (available on all supported ASE platforms).

IQ

   A free Express Edition of IQ 16.0 for Linux/Intel and Windows (all 64-bit only) can be downloaded here. The IQ Express Edition is limited to 5 Gb of data space and most (but not all) IQ options are included.

=> There is no time limit with these versions of ASE or IQ

Enjoy!

Regards ... Chris

Appeon 2015 beta - New Release Highlights

** Very HOT news **

Appeon 2015 To Be Released this September!

 

   Appeon corporation announced the other day that their new Appeon 2015 production version should be shipping this September 2014. To prove how close they are to this release, Appeon has opened up a Beta program to anyone interested around the new software last week (July 28, 2014). This new release has some very key new features ...

What's New in 2015 Beta

Web Features

    Multiple Web Browser Compatibility

• In addition to Microsoft Internet Explorer, now Appeon Web application can also run in the following Web browsers: Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera. on the Windows platform.

Clockwise, starting at the top right - the SALES PowerBuilder application webified by Appeon2015 and running in the latest releases of: Safari; Chrome; Opera and FireFox web browsers!

Here is an actual test I performed on my Appeon Beta test PC!

    Appeon Debugger

•     Appeon Debugger now supports IE 6 thru 11 (both 32-bit & 64-bit).

    Appeon Server open interface enhancements

•     More Appeon Server APIs are added to facilitate the managements of user sessions.

    PB features

•     DDCalendar property for the DataWindow Column control is supported.
•     MERGE statement for dynamic SQL is supported.

Mobile Features

    WebView APIs

• The WebView object is added to the Appeon Workarounds PBL to allow developers to load the HTML page and/or run JavaScript in their mobile applications.

    DataWindow resize

• The Appeon Resize PBL has been enhanced to automatically resize the controls in the DataWindow object.

    Appeon Server open interface enhancements

• More Appeon Server APIs are added to facilitate the managements of user sessions.

    Other API enhancements

• NFC APIs can handle errors gracefully.
• Notification APIs can add title to notification on the Android device.

    PB features

• MERGE statement for dynamic SQL is supported.

Regards ... Chris