<?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>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:50:00 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>Storage Virtualization Company DataCore Gets $30 Million</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/553296.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/553296.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/553296_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[DataCore announced that it has accepted a $30 million equity investment from Insight Venture Partners and Updata Partners. Insight Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on the global software and Internet industries. Updata Partners is an information technology-focused venture capital firm whose general partners have been active as investors and operators in the IT industry for more than two decades.]]></description></item><item><title>Dell&apos;s Big Virtualization Mojo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/562655.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/562655.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/562655_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Virtualization is a strategic initiative at Dell and so we have spent considerable time planning and seeking the requirements of hundreds of our customers of all types and sizes and across many geographies. What we found was pretty revealing, although not particularly surprising: virtualization has matured to the point where it is not just viewed as a red-hot, 'solve everything' technology, but as an effective means for our customers to meet specific business needs and objectives.]]></description></item><item><title>MonoSphere New Release With Enhanced Support for VMware Virtualization</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/560691.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/560691.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/560691_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[MonoSphere announced Storage Horizon 3.7 with a range of analytical capabilities, which reduce the complexity and time required to manage today's heterogeneous storage environments. Storage Horizon 3.7 includes enhanced support for VMware environments, a new automated chargeback capability, advanced analytics, advanced analysis of storage consumed by databases, and adds support for EMC Celerra and IBM DS and ESS arrays.]]></description></item><item><title>FastScale Founder &amp; CEO to Present at Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/557942.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/557942.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/557942_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SYS-CON Events announced today that the Founder & CEO of FastScale, Lynn LeBlanc, will be giving a top breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (20-21 November, 2008).]]></description></item><item><title>3PAR Named &quot;Silver Sponsor&quot; of SYS-CON&apos;s Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/546211.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/546211.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/546211_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[3PAR is a provider of utility storage, a category of highly-virtualized, tightly-clustered, and dynamically-tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation. 3PAR Utility Storage gives customers an alternative to traditional arrays by delivering resilient infrastructure with increased agility at a lower total cost to meet their changing business needs. As a pioneer of thin provisioning - a green technology developed to address storage underutilization and inefficiencies - 3PAR offers products designed to minimize power consumption and promote environmental responsibility. With 3PAR, customers have reduced the costs of allocated storage capacity, administration, and SAN infrastructure while increasing adaptability and resiliency. 3PAR Utility Storage is built to meet the demands of open systems consolidation, integrated data lifecycle management, and performance-intensive applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Sybase PowerBuilder Delivers AJAX and .NET Enhancements Enabling Rich Internet Application Development</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/547550.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/547550.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/547550_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 roadmap for delivering .NET interoperability and incorporates new features such as AJAX functionality for WebForms, which enables richer, more interactive data-driven application development.]]></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>Agile Programming</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522904.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522904.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/522904_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One of the things I really enjoy at the moment is the recognition and adoption of agile programming as a fully fledged powerful way to deliver quality software projects. As its figurehead is a group of very talented individuals who have created the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/). At its core are four simple principles that, when followed and applied to software projects, generally will ensure a great flexibility and hence higher agility.]]></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>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:45:00 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>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>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>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/480681_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) is a new 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>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><item><title>PBDJ Blogger Chris Pollach Reaches 150,000 Reader Mark</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/473483.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/473483.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/473483_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[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 scene. Since I started my Blog in August of 2005 I have seen a steady increase in unique visits to my site. This whole Blog experience of course is Reed Shilt's fault. Reed is the development manager for PocketBuilder and started the whole thing off by opening his own Blog within PBDJ, then sending me an invitation to join him in this new venue. At that point in time, Blogging was a whole new experience for me and in fact, I had not even heard the term until I received Reed's email.]]></description></item><item><title>TechWave 2007</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/453741.htm</guid><link>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/453741.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://pbdj.sys-con.com/read/453741_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[This year TechWave 2007 took place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. For those of you who didn't make it, the following is a recap of the events, with a couple of thoughts and suggestions thrown in. Officially the only thing going on Sunday was conference registration. However, there is a private TeamSybase/Sybase reception on Sunday evening where, among other things, new TeamSybase members are inducted. This year we added one new member: Roland Smith.]]></description></item></channel></rss>