PowerBuilder Journal

Sybase has announced two industry award wins for its enterprise mobility platform. Frost & Sullivan awarded Sybase with its 2009 North American Mobility Award for Mobile Enterprise Platforms and Info Security Products Guide named Sybase the winner of the 2009 Global Product Excel... (more)

This article seems like it should be the fourth in a series of articles. The first two were on non-visual components in August 2006 and July of 2007. The last one was in August of 2007. In that one, we looked at using the Interop Forms Toolkit to provide a COM wrapper for Visual ... (more)

Enabling interoperability is one of the greatest benefits of using web services. In the business world, applications work on different platforms with different operating systems running applications whose programming languages vary wildly. For applications to interact with each o... (more)

The largest bus operator in Hong Kong, the Kowloon Motor Bus Company (KMB), is responsible for carrying around 2.7 million passengers a day and coordinates the movement of 4,040 buses. By utilizing Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), PowerBuilder, and PocketBuilder, KMB buil... (more)

Back in March of 2004, Eric Lippert of Microsoft explained in his "Fabulous Adventures In Coding" blog how Microsoft divides the developer community into three groups, each which is designated by a personality. Apparently, this is a practice recommended by Geoffrey Moore in "Cros... (more)

Oracle has provided support for failing over database connections and, through Transparent Application Failover (TAF), doing so in a way that allows connected applications to continue functioning relatively uninterrupted during and after the failover. The connected application ha... (more)

Version 5.x of EAServer allowed easy synchronization of components or packages among different servers, or a cluster of servers. Just right-click on the package or component, choose "Synchronize," add any necessary addressing information for target servers, and click "OK." The u... (more)

Dear Sybase User;      Please join us on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 for the next Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) special event! OSUG's mission is to create a Sybase community in the National Capital area where users can share knowledge, experiences, and best practices. Users of all ... (more)

People always like the shiny and new, regardless of whether it's gadgets, clothes, cars, or technology. It's exciting to get something new; we feel good about ourselves, like we're a part of an elite group, ahead of the curve, "in the know." Yet "buyer's remorse" is also a well-k... (more)

PowerBuilder Developer's Journal A picture is worth a thousand words. We all have heard this saying a countless number of times. But what if you don't understand what is drawn in the picture? I was approached once with a request to review requirements specifications for some mod... (more)

In a former life, I was a web developer. Back in the late '90s, I vividly remember being told by more than one of my computer science professors that in 10 years, everything would run in a web browser. Even the operating system (it was claimed at the time) would be browser based.... (more)

The Ottawa Sybase User Group congratulates the Ottawa Heart Institute in its nomination for a prestigious ComputerWorld Laureate award, which is an amazing recognition of the innovative design of this PowerBuilder application and the dedication of the development and management t... (more)

Vantrix has announced that Sybase 365 has extended its contract with Vantrix and will integrate the newest version of Vantrix Message Optimizer and Mediadvance software platform. The agreement broadens a longstanding partnership between the two companies and provides Sybase 365 w... (more)

PowerBuilder provides an object browser - the utility accessed via the "Cubes with a pair of eyeglasses" icon on the PowerBar menu. If you haven't tried the PB browser, you should. Among other things, it eliminates the problem of identifying which PBL contains the object of inter... (more)

Have you ever felt that either you want to get a point across to other Sybase Users, or you have a great piece of technical advice that you would like to share with the wider community? If the answers yes, but you don't really know how, then check out this great 3 page article wr... (more)

Following on from my earlier blog "Securing and Delivering Business Data on the iPhone" , today Sybase shipped a new version of iAnywhere Mobile Office for Windows Mobile, Symbian and iPhone users in the enterprise. The new release offers enhanced administrative, network security,... (more)

In this Exclusive Q&A with SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan, Senthil Krishnapillai - Sybase iAnywhere's Director of Product Management - talks about the mobile email market and Sybase iAnywhere's most recent announcements regarding Mobile Office and the iPhone 3.0. Jeremy Geelan: Startin... (more)

In the last 6 months at least, I have been blogging on many topics but with one central theme, I believe mobility is key to enterprise companies, not only now but for their future. This is especially true in the current economic climate, where cost effectiveness, rapid decisions,... (more)

(PBDJ News Desk) - Sybase Chairman and CEO John Chen who appeared on CNBC Closing Bell on Wednesday said Sybase is providing mobile solutions to SAP. "Sybase and SAP are both leaders in their respective spaces. We will bring what consumers are enjoying for years to the enterprise ... (more)

Back in August of 2007, I wrote an article entitled "Dynamically Generating Next-Generation Charts from PowerBuilder DataWindows" that demonstrated one method of dynamically generating Flash charts from within a PowerBuilder application. I was primarily writing that from the pers... (more)