Elevate - 2017 PowerBuilder Conference

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2017 PowerBuilder Conference 

   The new PowerBuilder 2017 product is on its way to being released in June 2017.  As such, Appeon considers this to be an appropriate time to begin planning for the annual PowerBuilder conference. In order to ensure adequate time to prepare for the conference, Appeon has decided to schedule the Elevate 2017 Conference for September 25-27, 2017. As such, Elevate 2017 will be held in Charlotte, North Carolina (USA). If you are interested in being a speaker / presenter at the conference and receive a full conference pass for free as a token of Appeon's appreciation, please contact their marketing department ASAP!

    Note1: The registration process for Elevate 2017 Conference will be commencing in May of 2017… stay tuned!

   Note2: Call for Presenters will open on March 10th, 2017



regards ... Chris

STD FC's - Your PFC Replacement!

I got the job!

     Its always nice once in a while when your all your hard work pays off when you receive a nice comment about your work or product. In this case it was a nice text message the other day from a PowerBuilder friend of mine who stated ....

    The Software Tool & Die frameworks that I originally built in 1992 for PowerBuilder and later on, added support for PocketBuilder, PB.Net, EAServer, Appeon Web and Appeon Mobile, continues to evolve even to this day. The goal now is to update the frameworks in time for the brand new release of Appeon PB 2017 in June, 2017!

   The frameworks even today are still being adopted by new and refactored mission critical PowerBuilder & Appeon Web/Mobile applications the world over with over 6,429  downloads in 2016! You can download them from their home on SourceForge  ... plus, they are open source, pure PowerScript, use no external DLL's & are free too! 

Regards ... Chris

PB 2017 - PreOrder Special!

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Appeon PowerBuilder 2017 

Special Pre-Order Pricing is Back!

Over the last 2 months of 2015, thousands of copies of PowerBuilder 2017 were pre-ordered at a very special price. Due to the still high demand at the end of the first pricing promotion, Appeon has decided to extend a second promotion period to the PowerBuilder community starting on January 1, 2017 until the end of April 2017. Appeon also appreciates that it takes time for companies & government agencies to fully understand the offer and work through their various purchase processing procedures. As such, Appeon are pleased to offer the PowerBuilder community a “second chance” to pre-order PowerBuilder at a big savings. If you pre-order PowerBuilder 2017 you will be entitled to the following benefits: UP TO ≈50% SAVINGS GRANDFATHERED PRICING INNOVATIVE Features ON-TIME DELIVERY GUARANTEE Don’t miss out on this last chance to pre-order PowerBuilder 2017 and save big before the regular pricing takes effect after April 30, 2017.

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Regards ... Chris

PowerBuilder on TV

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   One normally thinks of PowerBuilder TV as the PBTV website that contains great information about the PowerBuilder product. However, what I am talking about today is putting PowerBuilder on your TV! Yes, you read that right ... put your PowerBuilder applications on your TV and interact directly with them. You can do that today, thanks to the Appeon Mobile product from Appeon corporation.

   New televisions or even older ones can now have Android enabled boxes attached to them or "smart" TV's may come pre-loaded with the Android operating system built in. In my case, I am using an MXQ Pro Android media box in this article attached to my Samsung TV. The MXQ box is a quad processor based system with the Android 5.1 O/S loaded on to its ROM with 32G of RAM memory on board. That being said, these media boxes or on-board TV computer based Android systems are more than capable of hosting the Appeon Mobile Work Space (AWS) application that will in turn host any PowerBuilder application that can be deployed to an Appeon 2016 server.

MXQ media box with keyboard.

   The Android O/S on your SmartTV or the media box typically has a similar user interface to your Android phone or tablet. The O/S has all the typical bells & whistles like a file manager, web browser, system console, etc ... all the ingredients you need to load the AWS application on to the droid system. So the first action is to start the Chrome web browser and point it to your Appeon Server - for example:  http:///AEM. Once your in the Appeon Enterprise Manager (AEM) you will be prompted to download the AWS install application (an Android .APK file).

AWS install file downloaded.

  Double tapping the .IPA file from the "download manager" will start the AWS install just like on your Android phone or tablet. Once the installation has completed and you return to the main screen, you will now see the AWS application icon on the main application group.

AWS installed (lower right hand side)

  Now that you have AWS installed, you can start the application which acts as the host for any of your PowerBuilder applications on a mobile device. The AWS application will now let you point it to your PB application deployed & hosted on the Appeon Server. Once AWS locates your PB application on the Appeon Server, it will download the executable code to the Android device. 

PB application being downloaded to the MXQ Android system.

   Now that the PB application has been downloaded to the AWS application. You can start the application and interact with it via the Android based Bluetooth keyboard. This is no different than interacting with your touch device or even more akin to using your PB application deployed as an Appeon Web based application. The great news is that in my testing all the PB applications worked flawlessly. A great tribute to the Appeon Mobile architecture for Android.

Interacting with a Master / Detail DataWindow!

Graph DataWindow report!

  A whole new horizon has now opened up for PowerBuilder applications thanks to Appeon!

Regards ... Chris