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Thursday, June 9, 2011

OSUG Meeting - June 14, 2011

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 Dear Sybase User;

     Please join us on Tuesday June 14, 2011 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 June 14, 2011 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.

Days Agenda:

Time:          Topic:

7:30am       Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am       Introduction & welcome - Chris Pollach
9:00am       Mobilizing your PB Applications to the Blackberry and iPhone
                   - Anthony Robinson & Chris Pollach
10:30am     Coffee Break
10:45am     PowerBuilder Road Map, New Features of PB 12.5,
                   PB Fresh from the Labs, HTML5 Demo
11:30am     Mini Q&A session before lunch

12:45am     Lunch

1:00pm      Migrating a Win32 Application to .NET considerations - John Strano
 2:15pm     Coffee Break
 2:30pm     A Detailed walk through of PB 12.5 - John Strano
 3:15pm     Coffee Break
 3:30pm     Web Services everywhere - Chris Pollach
 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 ...
  • Alcatel Ottawa International Children's Festival - early June, five-day event aimed at families and children aged between 4 to 15 years old, with theatrical performances, dance and music
  • Franco Ontarien Festival - mid-June, celebrating Canada's historic French origins and culture, with music, local arts and crafts, and many interesting exhibitions
  • Fringe Festival - mid-June, with visual arts, buskers, musicians and performances



* BIO's *

  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.


   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.

  
Regards ... Chris
OSUG - Co-Ordinator

Monday, May 23, 2011

PBTV - June 2011 Schedule

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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
Summer's almost here and so is the June 2011 webinar schedule!

Thursday June 16th
at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris)

How to let end users customize their applications
If end users know best how they want their applications to look, why not let them customize screens and reports themselves? We’ll introduce a tool that provides an innovative new way to let them customize applications and reports without touching the source code. You've never seen customization like this!
Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
Register

Tuesday June 21st
at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)

Using PowerBuilder Custom Visual User Objects in Visual Studio

With PowerBuilder 12.5, Custom Visual User Objects (CVUOs) can be deployed as WPF User Control libraries. Bring the power of the DataWindow to C# and VB .NET solutions. Become the star of any .NET development team!

Presenter: John Strano
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Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!


Regards ... Chris

Thursday, April 28, 2011

PBTV May 2011

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 Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV...

Tuesday May 10th
at 10:00am EST (New York) / 16:00 CET (Paris)

Transfer Knowledge of PowerBuilder Code
Do you have plans to update your applications this year, but its original developers have left the project? How will you reconstruct the knowledge of the application's inner-workings? How can you transfer this knowledge to staff or sub-contractors?
In this presentation, we'll show you a tool to:
- Facilitate the understanding of the code by a team new to the application
- Avoid side effects from changes made to the application
Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
Register

Thursday May 19th
at 10:00am EST (New York) / 16:00 CET (Paris)

The New Features in Enable 3.5

We’ll introduce you to the new features found in Enable 3.5.
More than 100 changes have been introduced in the Rex panel to improve runtime changes. This new version also includes an important architectural change allowing you to provide customized layout and properties. This will allow end users to customize the multilingual application using a Customization module.

Presenter: Gian Luca De Bonis
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Have you seen the new website? Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars while you are there!
 

Regards ... Chris
 

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

PB12.5 Public Beta Has Started!

** Hot News **

  The PowerBuilder version 12.5 public beta has started this week! You can join the program and download the software from this link <click here>. PB 12.5 includes the following new feature highlights (and more) ....


PowerBuilder 12.5 Features
  • The ability to deploy custom visual user objects as .NET assemblies for use in other .NET applications.
  • A new WCF Service feature that allows business logic written in PowerBuilder to be deployed as a web service.
  • New options to make creating, compiling and deploying .NET applications faster and easier than ever before
  • DataWindow enhancements for both WPF and PowerBuilder Classic.
  • Language enhancements and support for .NET events
  • The ability to call REST based web services
  • Numerous IDE enhancements and more. 

    When you register to download PB 12.5, you will also be able to download further documentation that describes in detail the new and revised features of both PB Classic and PB.Net.

Enjoy!

Regards ... Chris

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

PowerBuilder 12.5 – Get Ready!

** Hot News **
PowerBuilder 12.5 Overview

    Join PowerBuilder Evangelist and resident .NET Rockstar Dave Fish, for this hour long webcast that will cover the exciting features you can expect to find in this new release!  The PowerBuilder 12.5 Beta will be available in April, 2011 and this webcast will give you an overview of the new features included in this release.  Attendees will learn about features like WCF Services, deploying custom visual user objects (CVUOs) as .NET assemblies, DataWindow enhancements, and more.

Europe
Date: April 21 2011
Time: 12:00pm EDT (New York) / 18:00 CEST (Paris)
Presenter: Dave Fish
Register:   Click here

North America
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
(10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT)
Presenter: Dave Fish
Register:   Click here


 PowerBuilder 12.5 – Get Ready, ‘Cause Here It Comes!

Regards ... Chris
 

Monday, March 28, 2011

PBTV April, 2011

Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV

Happy 1st birthday PowerBuilderTV - 1 year old on April.1, 2011!

Tuesday April 5th
at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)

Carving Up Classic Client/Server Applications For .NET Deployment:
Using the New .NET Project Partitioning Feature
The March 12.1 PowerBuilder EBF contains a new tool and technology that enables you to overcome deployment issues that might impede .NET migration.  You might even be able to organize your code in a way that enables you to restore RAD development to its rightful position in PowerBuilder.NET deployment.
Yakov Werde, member of TeamSybase and a PowerBuilder MVP will walk you though the ins and outs of the new partitioning feature "by-example".  He'll demonstrate the proper use of the new tool that allows you to configure your deployment architecture.

Presenter: Yakov Werde
Register

Thursday April 14th
at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris)

Take your commercial applications to the next level

During this webcast, you will see how to evolve your commercial applications and win new clients:
secure your SaaS applications, make your application customizable by your clients, protect your source code against reverse engineering, and support multiple languages to open new markets.

Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
Register

Thursday April 21st
at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)

PowerBuilder 12.5 Overview

The PowerBuilder 12.5 Beta will be available in April and this webcast will give you an overview of the new features included in this release.  Attendees will learn about features like WCF Services, deploying custom visual user objects (CVUOs) as .NET assemblies, DataWindow enhancements, and more.

Presenter: Dave Fish
Register



Regards ... Chris

Saturday, March 19, 2011

TechCast


ISUG TECHCAST
The North American PowerBuilder Virtual User Group and mLogica Present:
Carving Up Classic Client/Server Applications for .NET Deployment Using the New .NET Project Partitioning Feature
Sponsored by:  mLogica
    The March 12.1 PowerBuilder EBF contains a new tool and technology that enables you to overcome deployment issues that might impede .NET migration.  You might even be able to organize your code in a way that enables you to restore RAD development to its rightful position in PowerBuilder.NET deployment.  
Yakov Werde, member of TeamSybase and a PowerBuilder MVP will walk you though the ins and outs of the new partitioning feature "by-example".  He'll demonstrate the proper use of the new tool that allows you to configure your deployment architecture.  He'll also show you how to work around issues that might surface during partitioning.  He'll explain how to determine inter-assembly dependencies, determine if any circular dependencies exist, reorganize your code object storage scheme to eliminate them, and determine where you will store your global types
Wednesday, March 23rd
10am-11am PDT
1pm-2pm EDT
5-6pm GMT 
Register Button


 Regards ... Chris


Thursday, February 24, 2011

PB.NET Debugger

  ** Hot News **
"Kool" Webinar Coming!

    One great feature of the new PowerBuilder .NET IDE is the .NET debugger. Join Sybase for the webcast "Fun with the PowerBuilder .NET Debugger" on Wednesday March 2, 2011 (1-2pm Eastern) to learn more.

    The presentation will feature some cool and powerful new features that PowerBuilder can now
leverage via the Visual Studio shell. You host - John Strano - will be covering topics such as:
  • Debugger advantages with the VS Isolated Shell
  • Drag and drop breakpoint locations
  • Variable Watch window
  • TipWatch
  • Conditonal breakpoints on specific variable values and number of loop
  • iterations (Hit counts)
  • Conditionally printing to an output log
  • Running to a specified function on the call stack
  • Stepping into, through and out of C#!


  For more information on PowerBuilder 12 please visit www.sybase.com/powerbuilder12.


Regards ... Chris

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

PBTV March 2011


 Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV
 
For March, take some time to update your PowerBuilder skills and applications with PBTV webinars ...
  

Tuesday March 15th
TWO sessions
at 11:00 CET (Paris)
OR
12:00pm EST (New York)

Modernize your PowerBuilder applications

Do you want to bring your legacy PowerBuilder applications up to date?
In this webinar we’ll show you solutions to simply and effectively add innovative features, such as deploying your application on the web, renovating the user interface, reusing Windows Accounts, providing multilingual features, and more…
You’ll come away ready to give your applications a facelift!

Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

Click here to register for the
EUROPE session
11:00am Paris time
Register
Click here to register for the
NORTH AMERICA session
12:00pm New York time
Register

Tuesday March 29th
at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)

Dockable Windows

Dock'em, tab'em, float'em, pull'em onto multiple monitors! On March 29th, see yet one more way you can benefit from PowerBuilder 12 and WPF.
Join John Strano to see how you and your team can take advantage of dockable windows to enhance the UX of your PowerBuilder applications.

Presenter: John Strano
Register





Thursday April 14th
at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris)

Take your commercial applications to the next level

During this webcast, you will see how to evolve your commercial applications and win new clients:
secure your SaaS applications, make your application customizable by your clients, protect your source code against reverse engineering, and support multiple languages to open new markets.

Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
Register

 Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!


Regards .. Chris


Tuesday, January 4, 2011

PBTV - January 2011

1PowerBuilderTV listings for January, 2011!


Happy New Year!


Thursday January 20th
at 10:00am EST (New York) / 16:00 CET (Paris)

How to make your application multilingual with Enable 3.5

In this webinar, you will see how to upgrade your applications to a multilingual interface with just a few, simple changes to your code. New Enable 3.5 allows you to translate the application and adapt the User Interface in runtime.
Presenter: Gian Luca de Bonis
Register

Tuesday January 25th
at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)

Tutorial: Migrating from PowerBuilder Classic to .NET

You asked and we listened!
In this webinar, we'll show you a step-by-step tutorial on how to migrate a PowerBuilder classic application to PB .NET
Presenter: John Strano
Register



Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!

 Regards ...Chris