ISUG - Online WorkShop

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PowerBuilder .NET "Next Step"

    ISUG are pleased to announce that they will be running an expanded, online version of the workshop that was presented just prior to TechWave 2011.

    This workshop will be three days in length, starting on Monday November 7 through until Wednesday November 9, 2011 inclusive.  The course "Lectures" will commence at 11am each day, and will last 2-3 hours, perhaps longer, depending on the amount of material presented on a given day and the number of questions from the attendees.  The rest of the time will be set aside for lab exercises. Attendees should plan to spend 6-8 hours each day on the workshop.

    The instructor for the workshop will be Mr. Yakov Werde. Yakov will be bringing his considerable PowerBuilder talents and experience to the workshop making this a can't-miss event!  He will also remain online after each lecture period to answer questions throughout the day.

    The cost for the three day course is just $999us.  However, if you are a Green or Gold member you can receive a $200 discount if you register and pay for the course prior to November 1, 2011.  After November 1st the discount will be reduced to $100. (If you are an organization that would like to put multiple employees through the class, please contact ISUG directly.)

   Depending on the level of interest, ISUG are considering holding a second class later in the month for the EMEA and AP audiences.  If this course interests you please click on the link below for more information.

Click here for more information and to register!

Chris

PBTV October, 2011

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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV

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

Tuesday October 4th 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Taking PowerBuilder to the Cloud (with Microsoft Azure) Accenture Case Study If you missed it at TechWave, now's your chance to see how Accenture took their PB application to the cloud. We'll show you the important lessons and some pitfalls we discovered along the way.  We will also discuss the overall process and tools that enabled Accenture to successfully take their PowerBuilder application to the cloud. Accenture has a commercial software solution originally developed in PowerBuilder, which is used by Fortune 500 companies. Presenter: Anthony Orsini

Thursday October 13th 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Powerbuilder.NET, Expression Blend, Mobility and the Cloud The capital architect program is a tool to calculate a financial planning for weathy individuals. A formerly rather dull Excel program has been converted to an attractive professional tool, available anywhere anytime, on almost any platform. (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Windows and more...). How did we achieve this? PowerBuilder.NET! The result is a tool able to simulate and analyze certain financial situations on a "what if" basis. Users can create a projection of their financial situation in any given year, taking into account parameters including interest rates and real estate. This session will show you how this mobility solution was achieved using PowerBuilder.NET, MS Expression Blend and Cloud. Presenters: Dimitri Joosten and Peter Loozen

Thursday October 20th 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) PowerBuilder 12.5 IDE Enhancements: Tips and Tricks PowerBuilder 12.5 continues to build on the exciting new features introduced in PowerBuilder 12. This session will provide an overview and demonstration of many of the new features found in the PowerBuilder .NET IDE such as the advanced property grid, batch build command option, how PowerBuilder .NET supports multi-threading, debugging enhancements, split assembly deployment and more. Presenter: Dave Fish

Tuesday October 25th 2011 at 11am EST (New York) / 17h CET (Paris) Let Users Customize Screens & Reports by Themselves When many users request different changes, you cannot duplicate and adapt the application for each of them: maintenance would soon become impossible. This webinar will show how to make the application "customizable" by the end-users themselves. They would use simple tools to define changes, without viewing or modifying your code, and you would keep maintaining and deploying a single copy of the application. This solution will be illustrated with concrete examples and case studies. We will also include information allowing attendees to calculate the ROI of the solution, including software and material costs and implementation times. Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

Enjoy ... Chris

Happy Birthday!

 Happy 20th Birthday - PowerBuilder!

 From the Sybase Techwave event at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas this week ...

Left: Dave Fish    - PB Technical Evangelist from Engineering

Right: John Strano - PB Technical Evangelist from Marketing

PB: Your Dad - Dave Litwack - is very proud of you!


Regards ... Uncle Chris
(I was there at Cullinet when PB was conceived and at PowerSoft when he was born)   :-)

Upcoming Webinars for September 2011

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1) The Road Ahead - An Update on What's Next for PowerBuilder

Date: September 20, 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)
A post-TechWave webcast: If you couldn't make it to TechWave, or want to go back already, we have a session just for you! Join us for a recap of what was covered in the plenary session, when John Strano and guests will share what's coming up for PowerBuilder.
Presenter: John Strano, Dave Fish, Sue Dunnell, Dimitri Joosten, Peter Loozen, Armeen Mazda




2) Advanced Security for PowerBuilder and .NET

Date: Monday September 26th 2011 at 11am EST (New York) / 17h CET (Paris)
Over the years, applications have evolved to support multiple technologies and complex architectures. Access Control systems must be flexible enough to handle all possible configurations. This webinar will show you concrete solutions that fulfill these requirements.

We will implement the following features: • Web SSO • Identity Federation • Mixed Mode Authentication • Centralized view and Control of all applications • Multi-tenant / SaaS applications • Securing recent technologies

Note: this solution will be illustrated with concrete examples and case studies. We will also include information allowing attendees to calculate the ROI of each solution: software and material costs, implementation times, etc…

Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle




3) Accenture Case Study: Taking PowerBuilder to the Cloud (with Microsoft Azure)

Date: Tuesday October 4th 2011 at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris)
If you missed it at TechWave, now's your chance to see how Accenture took their PB application to the cloud. We'll show you the important lessons and some pitfalls we discovered along the way.  We will also discuss the overall process and tools that enabled Accenture to successfully take their PowerBuilder application to the cloud.
Accenture has a commercial software solution originally developed in PowerBuilder, which is used by Fortune 500 companies.
Presenter: Anthony Orsini



Regards ... Chris

What's New this month?

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 Whats New at Sybase these days?

    Sybase has co-hosted its own TechWave developer/DBA symposium at SAP's TechEd conference!. During this event in Las Vegas, Sybase announced PowerBuilder 12.5, the second .NET release of its rapid application development tool. Built for creating "visually appealing" business applications on Windows 32 and .NET Frameworks, PowerBuilder 12.5 is now said to include WCF Services to create web services using the WCF model. There is also support for CVUOs in .NET assemblies, an enhancement designed to enable PowerBuilder users to share the productivity of the DataWindow with .NET developer peers. There is also PowerBuilder .NET assembly — used to create a PowerBuilder .NET target, then reference it in another PowerBuilder .NET project, without exposing the source code behind it.


    According to Sybase, the new iteration of PowerBuilder 12.5 comes with multithreading support implemented through Shared Objects in PowerBuilder .NET (originally supported in PB Classic). There is also Batch Command Processing, which enables customers to run a batch file to build applications without any user intervention. Also present here is REST Client in PowerBuilder .NET, so that targets can be clients that consume RESTful (Representational State Transfer) web services.


   Sybase PowerDesigner 16 was also been launched this month. This collaborative enterprise-modeling tool is, according to Sybase, "Enabling forward-thinking companies to achieve a clear and consistent Information Architecture throughout their enterprise." In more detail perhaps, we learn that PowerDesigner 16 now includes support for over 80 RDBMSs, more than any other modeling tool in the industry; a modernized, role-based user interface based on Windows 7 standards for improved usability and management; and an enterprise glossary to ensure business terms and definitions are established and consistently managed throughout all models to ensure everyone is speaking the same language. There is also improved Link & Sync technology with impact analysis in the repository to ensure users are gathering all the connections throughout the entire enterprise to provide mission-critical decision support.


    Last but not least in this batch of news updates is SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition — a new product launched to fulfill the demand from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) for easier data management and deployment of multi-tenant, hosted applications. It provides cloud-specific tooling and features that allow ISVs to manage data for cloud applications that meet both their business needs and those of their customers.

The features of SQL Anywhere OnDemand Edition include:

• Elastic Database Provisioning — scale up and scale down computing resources on demand; ability to share computing resources among tenants to achieve economies of scale; tenant data is isolated from all other tenants at the file level
• Tenant Scalability — designed to power "web scale" applications that grow to thousands of tenants
• Atomic Tenant Databases — each database treated individually, allowing for customer-specific customizations, backup solutions, and direct customer access; databases stored in known locations and can be restricted from moving to another
• Cloud Management Tools — designed to meet the needs of ISVs who are managing thousands of databases, hundreds of servers, and multiple versions of software and schemas.

Regards ... Chris

ISUG - Virual PB User Group, Aug 4, 2011

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ISUG - Virtual Meeting Announcement - PowerBuilder

    ISUG is pleased to announce that their next meeting of the North American PowerBuilder Virtual User Group will be on August  4, 2011. This meeting will feature Mr. Don Clayton from Intertech Consulting who'll be discussing Building Thoroughly Modern Systems in PowerBuilder.


    You can read all about the meeting details, time and how to register by clicking here!

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Regards .... Chris

Toad for ASE

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Introducing Toad for Sybase: Tricks and Tips Date: Wednesday, July 27 Time: 8:30 PT / 11:30 ET Duration: 1 hour    Join Toad expert Devin Gallagher as he reveals how you can use Toad for Sybase to dramatically simplify your development and database administration tasks. You’ll discover easy ways to proactively solve performance issues across your Sybase ASE, IQ, and SQL Anywhere databases. Plus, you’ll see how to: Automate SQL optimization and reduce vulnerabilities Mitigate the risks of change Reduce your workload and increase accuracy with improved workflow and automation Live Q&A will follow! Learn more and register

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Regards ... Chris

PBTV July, 2011

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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV!

Wednesday July 13th 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. Enable 3.5 allows you to translate the application and adapt the User Interface in runtime. Presenter: Gian Luca De Bonis

Tuesday July 19th at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris) Analyze PowerBuilder and Stored Procedures Code Manage the evolution of your applications: save time and avoid costly mistakes. We’ll show you a tool for code exploration, impact analysis, source code documentation, code review and dead code detection. You’ll see how to:               * Perform Impact Analysis across your entire application     * Browse cross-references in PowerBuilder, Stored Procedures and DBMS code     * Generate complete documentation for your code in a few minutes Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

Tuesday July 26th at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) It's Not All About .NET PowerBuilder has been evolving over the last several releases to more comprehensively support .NET, but what if you don't have any plans to go to .NET or the effort to migrate your application from Win32 just can't be justified? Well Sybase hasn't forgotten about you Win32 developers and in this session Dave Fish will show you the PowerBuilder Classic enhancements to be found in PowerBuilder 12.5. See how you can modernize the look and feel of your Win32 applications without having to migrate to .NET! You'll also learn how you can incorporate .NET code into your Win32 applications so that you can achieve the best of both worlds. Finally, Dave will talk about additional Win32 enhancements being planned for PowerBuilder 15. Presenter: Dave Fish

Note: PBTV is taking a break in August to gear up for Techwave, but will be back in September 2011 with a whole new set of exciting sessions.

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


Enjoy ... Chris

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

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

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

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

Regards ... Chris