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Chris Pollach
Chris Pollach is the president of Software Tool & Die Inc. (a consulting company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) and has been using PB since November 1989 (version 0.8). When not developing in PB, Chris enjoys fishing and martial arts. |
PowerBuilder 11.2
Released: Sybase's
Flagship IDE By Chris Pollach 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. Apr. 17, 2008 08:00 AM Reads: 3,033 | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? By Chris Pollach  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 ... Apr. 14, 2008 04:45 AM Reads: 41,938 Replies: 13 | PBDJ Blogger Chris
Pollach Reaches 150,000
Reader Mark By Chris Pollach I just wanted to
acknowledge the
tremendous increase in
the amount of Blog
activity that I have
received over the past
year. I think (and hope)
that this is because many
Sybase professionals out
there have come to visit
my site for latest
information on the Sybase... Dec. 11, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 3,060 Replies: 1 | PowerBuilder 11 GA -
Released By Chris Pollach 'PowerBuilder has always
been the fastest tool to
develop with, and now
that we can deploy
applications to the .NET
platform, we have more
options for our
customers,' said Ali
Mehmet, technical
director at Maracis
Solutions Limited, a
Sybase customer.
'Recently,... Jun. 17, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 8,212 Replies: 1 | PBDJ Cover Story —
Why Upgrade to PB11? By Chris Pollach  Why upgrade to
PowerBuilder 11? Here are
some interesting and
compelling reasons in my
opinion... First, before
we even get into the
PowerBuilder details, PB
11 will be shipping with
the new SQL Anywhere
version 10 DBMS. This
newest release is
'jam-packed' with o... Jun. 3, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 7,277 | PowerBuilder 11 Launch
Tour and Code Camp By Chris Pollach The Ottawa Sybase User
Group was proud to be the
first in North America to
host the formal
PowerBuilder 11 Launch
Tour event! Joining us
from Sybase USA for this
special event were John
Strano, Dave Fish, Jim
O'Neil and Sue Dunnell
(Launch Team). You can
read all ... Jun. 2, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 3,487 Replies: 1 | PowerBuilder 11 Launch
Tour By Chris Pollach The United States part of
the North American
PowerBuilder 11 Launch
Tour is starting in June.
Here are the current city
locations and a link (on
the city name) to their
respective registration
information. The
locations are as follows: May. 24, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 6,534 Replies: 1 | Official PowerBuilder 11
Launch Tour and Code Camp By Chris Pollach With the release of
PowerBuilder 11 scheduled
for 2007, Sybase will be
entering the Microsoft
.Net 2.0 world with their
premier development tool.
Some of our attendees at
the October 11th OSUG
meeting witnessed Mr.
John Strano's overview
presentation on PB 11
Beta... May. 16, 2007 05:45 PM Reads: 6,372 | Visual Expert 5.7 -
Released! By Chris Pollach The Novalys company has
just launched a new
version of Visual Expert,
a tool that automates
impact analysis,
generates source code
documentation and checks
code quality. The new
Visual Expert version 5.7
analyzes both
PowerBuilder and related
Stored Procedure code... Apr. 23, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 6,687 Replies: 1 | Sybase Ships New "SQL
Anywhere" Database By Chris Pollach Great news today ..
Sybase's subsidiary in
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- iAnywhere Solutions has
announced the release of
the new SQL Anywhere
database version 10 into
production! Sybase has
decided to rename the ASA
(Adaptive Server
Anywhere) database back
to its o... Sep. 19, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 6,597 Replies: 3 | Sybase TechWave News:
Super Large PowerBuilder
EAServer ASE Web Site By Chris Pollach This online web
application is huge and
belongs to the Natural
Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of
Canada (NSERC)! It has
been running for the past
5 years and as of late,
has had major upgrades
and features added. This
latest release has been
built using... Aug. 7, 2006 09:15 PM Reads: 5,821 Replies: 1 | PowerBuilder History By Chris Pollach Last year I wrote an
article for PBDJ,
PowerBuilder Developer's
Journal, on the 'History
of PowerBuilder'. You can
still read this article
online at: http://pbdj.sy
s-con.com/read/124571.htm
. Thanks to the Belgian
PowerBuilder User Group
it has been translated
into... Mar. 31, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 5,317 Replies: 7 | Sybase Is Releasing
PowerBuilder 10.5 By Chris Pollach Please take note that
Sybase will be releasing
a new version of it's
'premier' development
tool for MS-Windows ..
PowerBuilder version
10.5! The release date is
March the 15th, 2006.
This new release will
include these major new
features (amoung others) Mar. 6, 2006 06:30 PM Reads: 8,181 Replies: 4 | Chris Pollach's
PowerBuilder Blog: "Have
You Hugged Your DW
Today?" By Chris Pollach OK, if you are a
PowerBuilder developer,
then this would not be a
surprise ! Check out the
winner in this .NET
category #8 and #9 (click
here)! Regards ... Chris
PS: Remember to say
thanks to Kim Sheffield ! Feb. 27, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 5,541 Replies: 2 | Chris Pollach's
PowerBuilder Blog:
"SQLXTRACT New Release!" By Chris Pollach I am pleased to announce
that Software Tool & Die
Inc. has just released a
new version of the
SQLXtract utility
(10.2.1) that reverse
engineers Sybase's
proprietary SQL format
(PBSELECT) into ANSI,
PL/SQL or TransAct SQL
from the 'DataWindow'
object. The new versi... Feb. 19, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 8,590 Replies: 1 | PowerBuilder Feature
Story: "Context-Sensitive
Help" By Chris Pollach  As I started a new
PocketBuilder application
and wanted to encompass
some of the 'context
sensitive' help features
that I have previously
used in a PowerBuilder
application. I knew that
this was not going to be
easy, as the Pocket PC
operating system does not
supp... Jan. 18, 2006 07:15 PM Reads: 16,357 Replies: 2 | STD Foundation Classes
(10.2.1) For Sybase
PowerBuilder Released By Chris Pollach I am pleased to announce
that Software Tool & Die
Inc. has just released
today a new version of
it's Foundation Classes
(10.2.1) for PowerBuilder
10.2.1 (Build 9004). This
is a port of the
PocketBuilder 2.0.3 FC's
to the PowerBuilder
platform. This release
also in... Jan. 6, 2006 09:15 AM Reads: 5,611 Replies: 4 | The Lost Art of
Performance By Chris Pollach  I have been spending a
lot of time at a
particular client of mine
lately addressing
stability and performance
issues on a particular
Web-based PowerBuilder
application. After
identifying many issues
with the application
system, I'm pleased to
report an exponential... Aug. 5, 2005 10:00 AM Reads: 10,919 | Old Fashioned Development By Chris Pollach The other day I was
thinking about the early
days of PowerBuilder when
dBase, Clipper, Clarion,
SQLWindows, etc.,
development tools ran
supreme. In November of
1989 I came across a
small Massachusetts
company working on a
revolutionary product. Mar. 1, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 6,107 |
YOUR FEEDBACK  | Agile Programming By Joe Winchester Terry Fitzgerald wrote:
thoughtful ideas
btw elephants do have 2
left feet | | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? By Chris Pollach Judah Holstein wrote: Hi
Chris!
Thanks for that
great story! I started
with PB in 1992 and we
still use it in many of
our products today.
Every time I try another
technology for GUI
development, I always
regret it, and like
Michael Corleone I get
sucked back in! :)
I didn't... | | Using the Eclipse Data
Tools Platform with
PowerBuilder and SQL
Anywhere By José Ramos Fabio wrote: I've made a
connection to a odbc
driver and it work fine,
I can write my sql
statement and execute it
whit no problem.
Anyway I don't see any
tables or stored
procedure under Data
Source Explorer for any
of the connection I've
create whit ping
successfully.
Nei... | | DataWindow Tips and
Techniques By Mike Deasy Eric Marshall wrote: I
agree the book is
excellent. I was a
programmer in COBOL, am
now working on learning
OOP and Powerbuilder.
The book looked like an
excellent reference. My
only issue is the samples
are in Powerbuilder 7,
and I can't find a way to
access them in the
P... | | Using Visual .NET
Components in
PowerBuilder By Bruce Armstrong Bruce Armstrong wrote: It
would be best to post
your questions on the
Sybase newsgroups and
I'll respond there. |
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Collaboration with
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Microsoft on legacy
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The collaboration
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Delivers AJAX and .NET
Enhancements Enabling
Rich Internet Application
Development By PowerBuilder News Desk  Sybase announced that
AJAX development
capabilities and further
Microsoft .NET
enhancements have been
added to the latest
version of Sybase
PowerBuilder 11, the
premier 4GL rapid
application development
(RAD) tool. PowerBuilder
11.2 represents another
milestone in the
PowerBuilder road | PowerBuilder 11.2
Released: Sybase's
Flagship IDE By Chris Pollach 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. | PowerBuilder Takes You To
.NET By John Strano  In June of 2007, Sybase
released PowerBuilder 11.
PowerBuilder developers
can now deploy
PowerBuilder components
as .NET Assemblies or as
.NET Web Services. A
PowerBuilder developer
can now create these .NET
resources so that those
who develop .NET
solutions can benefit
from PowerBuild | Using Web Services in a
PocketBuilder Application By Reed Shilts  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 s |
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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
Last week, our
development team was
supposed to launch a new
version of our
application. As usual,
right before finishing
the application we
discover that one or two