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Friday, September 16, 2011

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)   :-)

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Upcoming Webinars for September 2011

** Hot News - PowerBuilder TV **


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?

** Hot News **

 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

Monday, July 25, 2011

ISUG - Virual PB User Group, Aug 4, 2011



** Hot News **


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!









Regards .... Chris

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Toad for ASE


** Hot News **




The New Toad for Sybase SimplifiesDevelopment and Administration



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
Quest Software
5 Polaris Way
Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
USA
Phone: (800) 306-9329
Fax: (949) 754-8999
E-mail: info@quest.com


Quest Software


Regards ... Chris



Thursday, July 7, 2011

PBTV July, 2011



Hot News ...

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
Register

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
Register

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
Register

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

Thursday, June 9, 2011

OSUG Meeting - June 14, 2011

** Hot News! ** 

 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

** Hot News **

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
Register


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


Regards ... Chris

Thursday, April 28, 2011

PBTV May 2011

*** Hot News **

 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
Register



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