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We wish you a very happy and successful year with PowerBuilder.
PowerBuilder
The Real Cost of Passwords
In a 2002 NTA Monitor survey, it was found that the typical intensive
computer user had, on average, 21 passwords. This includes everything
from a PIN number on a bank card to a Windows password to their
personal e-mail. Password fatigue is the phenomenon of feeling
overwhelmed by the need to remember all of them. To combat this,
many users have found coping strategies. For example, they often
create a list of passwords in a file, or even put them on post-its
stuck to their terminals. All of this undermines the security
policies that the passwords were created to enforce.
PBDJ article, by Christophe Dufourmantelle
Online Training for PowerBuilder 11.5
The need for training and skills development has never been higher
than it is right now and technical staff at all levels realizes
that if they want to earn more, then the best way to do so is
to learn more. eLear-nIT Training's latest web-based training
courses for Sybase professionals everywhere offers a wealth of
resources that are fine tuned for the exact needs of contemporary
working environments.
Reprinted by PBDJ with permission from the ISUG Journal
PowerBuilder
12
Is the Ladder We’re Climbing Resting
on the Wrong Wall?
John Strano [...] demonstrated some impressive new features of
the new version of PowerBuilder, including a fly-away image effect
as well as DataWindow skinning. Of course, this is all based on
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the WPF DataWindow.
I found it all quite impressive. I think we're about to experience
one of the biggest leaps forward in PowerBuilder functionality
that we've seen in recent history. My nagging concern is that
in order to become fully ".NET," Sybase has to commit
to Microsoft developed technologies. And if there's anything constant
about Microsoft, it's that they keep switching out technologies.
PBDJ
article, by Bruce Armstrong
Re-Fact-Orings Of Life
Discovery about the relationship between refactoring and a healthy
life style
When I first accepted the assignment to write a tutorial about refactoring code, I was sure that refactoring was something that developers did when ‘extreme' requirements hit their application. [...] After all, the focus of the assignment was migration to PowerBuilder 12. I perceived refactoring as a bitter pill (radical procedure) that a team had to swallow (perform) when code got too old to stay in its existing form and needed a lobotomy to survive.
PBDJ
blog article, by Yakov Werde
Product
News
Spotlight on Visual Expert 6.0 features: Macro extensions
A simple right-click in the navigation bar allows the addition
of macro extensions. You can choose the macro(s) that you need
and thus personalize the Visual Expert graphical interface, without
cluttering it up with macros you don't regularly use. The extensions
Code Statistics, Check Date Functions and Windows 7 are already
released. This list will continue to be extended.
You now have the possibility to organize Visual Expert to get
statistical data about PowerBuilder code, list PowerBuilder scripts
that use a data manipulation function, or check the compatibility
of your system functions and libraries with Windows 7. Read
more...
The user interface
has been redeveloped to include a new navigation bar, new source
code view with tooltips, and over 100 new macros to explore and
clean up your code. Try
it yourself!
Appeon 6.5 for PowerBuilder New Features
Appeon 6.5 for PowerBuilder will be available in the market in
March 2010. Appeon has published the major new features that will
be offered with this release:
Productivity for developers greatly enhanced:
Server call analyzer / Configuration import/export / QuickTest
Pro compatibility.
More thorough support to PowerBuilder
features: Web Services data source / BYTE data type /
SaveAs PDFs,images / FileReadEx,FileWriteEx / Printer page customization.
Platform extended & upgraded:
JBoss server supported / 64-bit processing / Windows 7 / IIS 7.5
/ Sybase EAServer 6.3.
Added new Web-specific features:
Call Web Services / Multiple Appeon Server instances install /
Multiple profile instances deployment.
- To read the complete new features, download
the PDF datasheet of Appeon 6.5 for PowerBuilder here…
- The beta release of Appeon 6.5 is still open for public test run.
Developers can contact
nancy.yang@appeon.com to get the complimentary copy!
New Visual Expert 6 videos available
A new set of flash demos have been created for you to discover
Visual Expert 6 features.
Make your PowerBuilder Applications Multilingual
Many companies already know that Enable Enterprise is a cost-effective
way to extend the international reach of their software. By using
Enable, developers can upgrade a monolingual PowerBuilder program
in a matter of hours with just a few changes to the original code.
New version 3.0 includes a brand new C++ engine that boosts performance, support for Appeon and PB.NET, support for user-defined translations, translation of datawindow buffers, and many new APIs for improving performance and flexibility. Our benchmarks report performance boost of translation algorithms between 2x and 200x!
Learn more about Enable and get a trial version to see for yourself how easy it is to make your applications multilingual.
Tips
from developers like you
How to Create a Web-Architected PowerBuilder
Application
Our company, AssetPoint, develops, sells, and supports a software
product, TabWare, an EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) software
package that is developed with PowerBuilder. The mandate from
our new ownership in the spring of 2008 was to release a web-architected
version of our application by year end (2008!).
PBDJ article, by Kay Jenkins
Using PowerBuilder Assemblies in .NET
- Reusing PowerBuilder logic in .NET projects
There's a lot of "legacy" PowerBuilder code that you might want
to access from .NET applications or perhaps PowerBuilder has some
superior functionality that you would like to make use of in a
.NET application. Think about how easy it would be to create a
report in PowerBuilder with a DataWindow. Of course, PB can provide
functionality through Web Services [...] but this has its limitations.
PBDJ article, by Arthur Hefti
Sybase Posts Free PowerBuilder Migration
Support Videos
Nowadays, every platform has an xUnit based open source unit testing tool. [...] When you need to refactor or build business logic in PB, think TDD. TDD is a powerful methodology with a proven track record for supporing developers in delivering quality code.
PBDJ article, by Yakov Werde
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