<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from POWERBUILDER JOURNAL</title><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from POWERBUILDER JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>POWERBUILDER JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:35:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from POWERBUILDER JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/7/pbdj-mag-logo-145.gif</url><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Adobe&apos;s Kevin Lynch and Microsoft&apos;s Scott Guthrie to Keynote AJAX World RIA Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/587865.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/587865.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/587865_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Two of the biggest launches in Rich Internet Application history took place in 2007/2008 when Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in February '08 and Microsoft launched Silverlight (September '07). At the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in October SYS-CON Events is delighted to be presenting major industry keynotes from the two industry executives with overall responsibility for both of those massive richer-web initiatives: Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch and Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform.]]></description></item><item><title>PowerBuilder History - When Did Sybase Develop PB and How Did It Evolve?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/124571_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I have been asked many times by various clients, students, and the IT curious about PowerBuilder: When did Sybase develop the product and how did it evolve? I keep telling this story and answering e-mails on the subject. I am now to the point where I have decided that I should have PBDJ formally publish this story for posterity.]]></description></item><item><title>PowerBuilder 11&apos;s .NET Interoperability</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/594123.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/594123.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/594123_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[PowerBuilder 11 deploys entire applications as .NET Windows Form or Web Form applications and deploys individual components as .NET Assemblies and as .NET Web Services. Version 11 consumes resources of the default .NET framework as well as resources of custom developer-defined .NET resources. Non-PowerBuilder .NET solutions can interoperate with, and take advantage of, the unparalleled productivity of PowerBuilder's data access and data manipulation capabilities. In short, PowerBuilder 11 creates as well as consumes .NET resources.]]></description></item><item><title>Sanity, Strategy, Sustainability: The New World of Verification Platforms</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/594012.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/594012.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/594012_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The lines between embedded and enterprise computing are blurring. As embedded devices become more and more networked, they form a perimeter at the edge of our enterprise data centers and a rich source of real-time, real-world information. These newcomers to the enterprise are coming of age. Embedded computing is moving beyond the world of hidden computing and a behind-the-scenes role in military and industrial applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Publishing .NET Web Services Using SQL Anywhere 10.0.1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/593814.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/593814.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/593814_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In this article we're going to take a database and create our own mini version of an 'Amazon-like' item lookup. That is to say, any .NET or .NET-compatible client will be able to look up items in our database via the Web by simply providing a UPC. This article will show you how. To complete this project, you'll need a few items...]]></description></item><item><title>Integrated Support for XML Data Management</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/588566.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/588566.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/588566_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[XML is increasingly being used as the language of data exchange. An XML document based on a DTD or an XML Schema contains data that conforms to a standard structure. A number of technologies, such as ebXML (Electronic Business XML), UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration), and RDF (Resource Description Framework) are based on XML.]]></description></item><item><title>What is Cloud Computing?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/579826.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/579826.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/579826_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.]]></description></item><item><title>How Does NY State Manage Its PowerBuilder Applications?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/583426.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/583426.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/583426_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Most applications need upgrades and corrections. If you maintain in-house development you want to be particularly sharp about this. You can't afford to lose knowledgeable people to turnover and be left with no one able to maintain mission-critical applications. So you'll have to find a solution to handle any question, evolution or crisis related to these applications. Vincenzo Cianfarani, project manager, explains how New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) deals with such issues.]]></description></item><item><title>PowerBuilder and UPS Shipping</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/582069.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/582069.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/582069_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Does your shipping department have these problems? Extra charges due to incorrect addresses? Difficulty tracking packages? How about duplicate entries? If your shipping department is really ancient, you may even have rolls of preprinted UPS shipping labels. Here's how you can seamlessly integrate your printing function using PowerBuilder.]]></description></item><item><title>Using the Eclipse Data Tools Platform with PowerBuilder and SQL Anywhere</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480681.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480681.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480681_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) is now a top-level project at eclipse.org. Originally proposed by Sybase in February 2005, DTP has attracted strong community support and is currently managed by a committee comprised of Sybase, IBM and Actuate. It is an open source initiative designed to provide solutions in the data framework and tooling domains.]]></description></item><item><title>2008 Worldwide PowerBuilder Survey</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/577615.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/577615.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/577615_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Novalys is holding its 8th annual PowerBuilder Worldwide Survey. This survey is a great feedback mechanism for the entire PowerBuilder community. You'll see how the thousands of responses received in 2007 clearly demonstrate that PowerBuilder projects are increasingly embracing Microsoft technology.]]></description></item><item><title>PowerBuilder 11.2 Released: Sybase&apos;s Flagship IDE</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/545588.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/545588.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/545588_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sybase has released the production version of its flagship .NET development tool - PowerBuilder version 11.2. This latest release of its premier IDE for RAD includes not only standard fixes but also a good list of new features. Here is the 'Coles Notes' version of these new features.]]></description></item><item><title>Using Web Services in a PocketBuilder Application</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522257.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522257.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522257_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A shortcoming of PocketBuilder 1.x and 2.x has always been the difficulty in accessing Web Services. This shortcoming had always irritated us, but the limitations of the PocketPC and the size of the traditional PowerBuilder approach prevented us from providing an adequate traditional solution. We have a sample up on CodeXchange that wraps a simple API around the free 'Pocket SOAP' client, but that had its own limitations and we were never really satisfied with it.]]></description></item><item><title>Enable Runtime Explorer with Automatic Source Change</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522213.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522213.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522213_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Application development and maintenance require frequent iterations between design time and runtime. This process is necessarily time-consuming, imprecise, and somewhat frustrating. True, this is a characteristic of RAD environments...but isn't there a better way? Runtime-driven development represents a step in the right direction. This article talks about Enable Runtime Explorer (Rex) and shows how a new development cycle can benefit the daily activities of PowerBuilder developers.]]></description></item><item><title>A New Year and a New Direction</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522212.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522212.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522212_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I received an e-mail from a loyal reader recently complaining that the magazine was no longer 'primarily about PowerBuilder.' The charge is actually true and, despite the title of this column, is not particularly new. In fact, we had an editorial eight years ago explaining part of that shift (http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/42184.htm). That shift has continued, and this editorial will explain some of the reasons for that.]]></description></item><item><title>The PowerBuilder Blogosphere</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511652.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511652.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511652_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A sign of a vibrant developer community is the active blogosphere that surrounds a technology. Here's a more or less random selection of what's being talked about this month in the PowerBuilder community's blogs. Specifying Null Values as Retrieval Arguments in the DataWindow Painter - by Dave Fish...Some of you have been asking for this enhancement for a long time now.]]></description></item><item><title>Embracing Eclipse: An Interview with Kevin Gomes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511649.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511649.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511649_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) was founded in 1987 by David Packard. It's located in Moss Landing, California, where its three research ships and two remotely operated vehicles are berthed, giving them immediate access to Monterey Bay. MBARI also operates several autonomous underwater vehicles and maintains moorings offshore, equipped with ocean-monitoring instruments, as well as two moorings in the equatorial Pacific that are part of the NOAA Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array.]]></description></item><item><title>PDF or XPS: Choose the Right Document Format for Your Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511651.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511651.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511651_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft is introducing a new document format named 'XML Paper Specification' or XPS. Microsoft describes XPS as follows: 'The XML Paper Specification (XPS) describes the format of a new general-purpose document made available by Microsoft to facilitate the easy exchange of documents between applications, platforms and hardware systems...]]></description></item><item><title>PBDJ Feature: Take Control of Your GUI</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511595.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511595.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511595_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest complaints I hear about PowerBuilder is how the applications developed with it end up looking old and outdated. PowerBuilder allows developers to create complicated, robust, and efficient business applications. What it doesn't do is offer an effective presentation. Sometimes lackluster presentation can hurt an application's marketability. Unfortunate as it is, the look of the application is what gives users their first impression. An old-looking application just won't impress.]]></description></item><item><title>PBDJ Product Review: AllFusion Harvest Change Manager</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511557.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511557.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511557_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I began my career at RCA Aerospace and Defense in 1983 and worked at MITRE Corp., BAE Systems, and the State of NH. I worked in the defense field performing software configuration management (SCM) and release engineering activities from 1983-1996. In July of 1996, I began working for the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, performing the software configuration management role. I am the administrator of AllFusion Harvest.]]></description></item><item><title>Introducing &quot;Generation S&quot; - for Search</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507951.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507951.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507951_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[My seven-year-old daughter thinks that there is a knowledge genie that her teacher 'Googles' for answers. While cute, the anecdote also exemplifies how much Google's obsession with simplicity has helped build brand awareness, making their name literally synonymous with search. I can foresee generations X and Y being followed by generation S - one that will rely on search to accomplish almost any task.]]></description></item><item><title>Well-Informed Business Planning</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511556.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511556.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511556_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[At EMI Music Germany, decision makers use detailed business intelligence (BI) analytics to control all sales and marketing activities for new music titles, and to monitor sales success and profitability in real time. To monitor its sales development continuously and respond rapidly whenever necessary, the company analyzes approximately 50,000 sales transactions from five different countries on a daily basis.]]></description></item><item><title>PBDJ Editorial: Is RAD Dead?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511480.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511480.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/511480_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Well, if you listened to Rob Enderle of Enderle Group (www2.sdtimes.com/pdf/SDTimesBackIssues/sdtimes184.pdf) you might think that Rapid Application Development (RAD) is dead or dying. However, I think it's important to distinguish between two different things that are often lumped together and called RAD. One is the RAD development methodology and the other is 4GL tools that were often used in RAD development.]]></description></item><item><title>What&apos;s the Web-Buzz from the PowerBuilder Community?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508045.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508045.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508045_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A sign of a vibrant developer community is the active blogosphere that surrounds a technology. Here's a more or less random selection of what's being talked about in the PowerBuilder community's blogs recently. A Noob's Thoughts on PowerBuilder - by Rob Little. A month into my first-ever official 'real' job and here are some comments and thoughts...]]></description></item><item><title>PBDJ Feature: Custom Common Dialogs Using SetWindowsHookEx</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508046.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508046.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508046_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[PBDJ's readers ask us from time to time what the most popular article in the magazine has been over recent years. We are delighted to report that the answer is that it is one by our very own and much loved editor-in-chief, Bruce Armstrong. We first published it in 2005. Here it is again in full so that you can enjoy Bruce's insights into the endless scope for customization in PowerBuilder.]]></description></item><item><title>MBARI Puts JBuilder 2007 Enterprise Edition Through Its Paces</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507094.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507094.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507094_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[MBARI has been making the headlines recently as a high-profile JBuilder 2007 Enterprise Edition user. In this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's PowerBuilder Developer's Journal, MBARI Senior Software Engineer Kevin Gomes talks about the role of Eclipse in that decision, about the LiveSource UML modeling tool, code testing, and the relationship between scientists and engineers.]]></description></item><item><title>Business Information at the Touch of a Button</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507949.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507949.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507949_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Helifix is a market leader in the manufacture of wall ties, fixings and masonry reinforcement and repair systems. The company has 35 employees in its West London headquarters and manufacturing plant in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Helifix products are supplied worldwide, with a subsidiary in North America and business partners in Australia, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands.]]></description></item><item><title>PBDJ Editorial: We Live in Interesting Times...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507947.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507947.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/507947_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[That isn't, by the way, a Chinese curse. The phrase 'may you live in interesting times' (which became popular after Robert Kennedy used it in a speech in 1966) probably originated from a 1950's science fiction story. Regardless of its roots though, we find ourselves living in such times. In a previous issue I talked about the incremental releases that Sybase was doing for PowerBuilder 11.]]></description></item><item><title>The Sixteen Stages in the Evolutionary Cycle of a Software Project</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505016.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505016.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505016_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In the adventurous world of software development, we have all come to experience, criticize, and embrace many software lifecycle approaches (e.g., RUP, Agile, Scrum, XP, etc.). At their core, they intend to identify various stages in the software process and optimize their instrumentation through various iterative techniques. Through my own consulting experience on many projects, I have come to expect a slightly different discrete set of 'stages' that invariably accompany software endeavors.]]></description></item><item><title>The Rise and Rise of Web Applications in the U.S.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504983.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504983.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504983_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The rise of Web applications - Web sites that replace the functions of a software program that was traditionally installed on a personal computer - is one of the hottest topics in tech. Huge numbers of Web 2.0 start-ups are competing for user attention and many observers predict the rapid growth of Web applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Working with Legacy Applications</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505018.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505018.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505018_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When I was just starting my career in programming, I thought I would be creating new applications. And I did - I created a few applications from scratch. Maybe two or three of them. But for the most part what I've been doing is working with code written by someone else a while ago - legacy code. What is legacy code? You could define legacy code as ancient applications that were written in the past.]]></description></item><item><title>Sybase Success Story: Creating Informational Unity . . .</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505012.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505012.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/505012_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Using the experience and results of the University Education Process Control (UEPC) implementation based on Sybase technology, The Russian Economic Academy of G.V. Plekhanov modernized its entire IT infrastructure by creating informational unity across the university. The Academy developed a new educational program management system and incorporated an innovative way of assessing the quality of education. This system created a new way of communicating among the students and staff, enabling staff to be more efficient and allowing the students to get more from their learning experience.]]></description></item><item><title>Did You Get the Memo?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504981.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504981.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504981_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The 'upgrade' from Web 1.0 to the new Web 2.0 world has been an evolutionary process, continually driving the Web to be more interactive, useful, and interesting for consumers and the business community. The evolution from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 has been about improvements in the Web 'experience' - from that of simply browsing static content and graphic images that display upon request, to an all-new highly interactive, programmable, and much more useful Web.]]></description></item><item><title>Additional Dates Announced for ISUG PowerBuilder 11 Tour</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/497613.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/497613.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/497613_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The International Sybase User Group has announced additional dates for its North American PowerBuilder 11 Tour - 'Leveraging PowerBuilder in the .NET World' - following the success of the original thirteen city tour across the United States and Canada in October, November and December 2007.]]></description></item><item><title>PowerBuilder News</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508050.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508050.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/508050_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[01/12/2008 - Brad Wery announced his new website: www.PowerToTheBuilder.com. The site offers a variety of GUI components to help you change the look of the software you create with PowerBuilder. Adding any of the following to your PowerBuilder application will give it an instant and much-needed facelift...]]></description></item><item><title>RIAs Are Going Mobile: SYS-CON.TV Interview with Eric Farrar of Sybase</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/492408.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/492408.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/492408_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Speaking on SYS-CON.TV at AJAXWorld in Santa Clara, CA, last September, Eric Farrar from Sybase gives SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan an update on iAnywhere's continuing focus on mobile data management solutions and how the 'occasionally connected' problem in the RIA space mirrors the online/offline problems of the mobile space. He explains how the iAnywhere technology can now be integrated with Google Gears to provide automatic synchronization.]]></description></item><item><title>Enable Runtime Explorer 2.5 Releases Beta Version</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/488076.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/488076.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/488076_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Enable Runtime Explorer 2.5 beta features new automatic source change technology and the ability to write your own plug-ins. Enable Runtime Explorer (or simply Rex) is a runtime component that helps developers with their development, debugging and technical support work. The introduction of the new Automatic Source Change technology in Rex 2.5 eliminates the iterations between runtime and design time.]]></description></item><item><title>PowerBuilder News</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484039.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484039.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484039_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Sybase has announced that TransUnion, a provider of credit and information management, has chosen Sybase IQ to power its database of 280 million credit consumers. Sybase IQ, a highly optimized analytics server, was able to handle TransUnion's challenging data warehousing requirements with ease - it decreased query times, while significantly reducing hardware and energy requirements by achieving data compression of up to 82 percent.]]></description></item><item><title>OrcaScript Tips, Tricks, Quicks and Snips</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484021.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484021.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484021_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In my first OrcaScript article 'Using OrcaScript to Automate Your Build Process With or Without Source Control' (PBDJ, Vol. 14, issue 6), I focused on automating the build process using OrcaScript. The entire article was based on the assumption that we might be using a separate build machine. Because of this, I avoided using or connecting to the workspace to get the source control connection parameters or to look at the source control status of each object. This time, I'll make things a little bit easier by using the workspace and focusing on writing short scripts and a reusable script that prompts for a target name.]]></description></item><item><title>New Device Development Features in Visual Studio 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484017.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484017.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/484017_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on 'New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005' that was published in the August 2005 issue of .NET Developer's Journal, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be released as Visual Studio 2008. We spent a lot of time talking to our major customers and reviewing the feedback we got on blogs and questions on forums on newsgroups to identify what enhancements/features would be most useful to our device developers.]]></description></item><item><title>Who Will Become the PowerBuilder of the Web 2.0 Set?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/489708.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/489708.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/489708_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Recently I have been having déjà vu back to the days of PowerSoft. Back in the early 1990s when PowerSoft's product - called PowerBuilder - was in its heyday, it had been able to achieve dominance over arch-rival Gupta Technology and a myriad of other long forgotten competitors. Ironically, at the time, Gupta had a much more sophisticated object-oriented environment than PowerBuilder. But PowerBuilder was able to achieve leadership because the company found a way to make the traditional COBOL developer (and there were lots of them) very successful as graphical software designers.]]></description></item><item><title>Are You Getting What You&apos;re Paying For?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/483978.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/483978.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/483978_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[You're paying your application developers to write code. But are they doing what you're paying them to do? In most IT organizations, the answer is no. Industry analysts estimate that developers spend only about 20 percent of their time designing and coding. How do they spend the bulk of their time? Resolving application problems. Identifying and correcting defects discovered in the testing phase of a software project consumes 50 percent or more of your developers' time.]]></description></item><item><title>PowerBuilder News</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480699.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480699.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480699_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A new build of Coolmenu was released that includes the following modifications: Crash solved when using ChangeMenu; Bug solved when hiding and showing menuitems on the menubar; Colors more Office 2003-like. http://pbsite.milente.nl]]></description></item><item><title>Can Software Keep Up with Moore&apos;s Law?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480680.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480680.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480680_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[According to Moore's Law, the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every 24 months. Can software keep up? To do so, software vendors need to tackle the seismic shift in server technology toward 64-bit multi-core servers with massive memory banks. Software vendors have been slow to adopt the techniques required to get the most out of these new servers, never mind those coming in the future. And customers pay the price, without necessarily realizing it.]]></description></item><item><title>The Secret&apos;s Out!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480679.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480679.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480679_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[August is always an interesting month for me at Sybase. It's the month Sybase holds its User Training & Solutions Conference and employees like me get to meet a lot of customers and partners face-to-face. This year was no exception and I was thrilled to meet the folks, who I believe are the leaders responsible for the coolest weapons in the road warrior's arsenal. Who am I talking about? Why HTC of course, one of our great sponsors this year. In fact if TechWave were a Bond movie (forget Jason Bourne; I'm British and was raised on the one and only one JB), HTC would be Q, the guy with all the neat gadgets that look so normal from the outside, but pack an outstanding punch.]]></description></item><item><title>Aliens Take Over Sybase...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480657.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480657.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480657_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Or well, perhaps it just seems that way. Like the Dilbert strip where aliens kidnap the PHB and one of them impersonates him. They all notice because he's suddenly more competent and caring, so they don't report it. Sybase released PowerBuilder 11.0 in June of 2007 and hyped it at TechWave in August. 11.1 was (as I write this) recently announced and expected to be delivered in mid-November.]]></description></item><item><title>Multi-Select Dropdown List Box-type Entries for DataWindows</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480678.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480678.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480678_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[We make customized electronic medical record formats for physicians. We've been using multi-select list boxes to enter various choices together as part of a single column in many DataWindows in our applications. They help enter some interrelated data faster without creating an independent table and/or nested report.]]></description></item><item><title>Consuming Amazon Web Services Using PowerBuilder and SQL Anywhere 10.0.1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480658.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480658.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480658_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Since I'm in the middle of moving to a new city and need to get organized, I thought I'd roll a little application using SQL Anywhere, PowerBuilder, and Amazon Web Services to help organize my media collection. In doing so, I'm going to check out some cool features in SQL Anywhere, in particular, consuming Web Services.]]></description></item><item><title>Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Sets Jan 7 As Wikia Search Launch Date</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480114.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480114.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480114_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has set Jan. 7 as the launch date for his open-source search project, dubbed Wikia Search. According to the Washington Post Wales, who has described Yahoo! and Google as opaque services that don't explain how results are arrived at, says the project will allow technology enthusiasts to help filter sites and rank search results, using a community model akin to that of Wikipedia.]]></description></item><item><title>Where&apos;s i-Technology Headed in 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504985.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504985.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/504985_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[2007 was undoubtedly the year of Social Networking, but what of 2008? Will '08 be the year of 'Unified Communications' or the year when CMS comes to stand for 'Community Management System' - or even 'Collaboration Management System'? Or will it be the year of the giga-merger, to beat the mere mega-mergers of 2007?]]></description></item></channel></rss>