PocketBuilder

iPhone Developer Summit

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:45:00 EDT

This session will provide attendees with an overview of the iPhone SDK, including discussion of the App Store, Apple's planned distribution channel for SDK applications. Keep in mind that the contents of the SDK and experiences while using it are covered under NDA, so be prepared for me to talk in generics and leave out specific details that might be covered by the NDA. I am planning on providing a quick introduction to Objective-C for those attendees who may have never seen it and might be worried that it will be difficult to code in (it isn't!).

PBDJ Blogger Chris Pollach Reaches 150,000 Reader Mark

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:15:00 EST

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.

Automatically Installing Applications After a Cold Boot

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:00:00 EST

After continually reinstalling my PocketBuilder application, ASA, and PocketBuilder on my Symbol handheld scanner unit each time I rebooted the unit, I felt 'enough is enough...'

Pocket Sudoku

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:00:00 EST

It's amazing how popular Sudoku has become in the last few months. You'll find one in nearly every daily magazine here in Austria. When I started to jump on this train (yes, I solve at least one Sudoku a day), I thought it would be amazing if we could have a version written completely in our number-one development tool, PowerBuilder, or it's small brother PocketBuilder. Since I wanted to be able to carry it around with me, I decided to write it in PocketBuilder 2.04 (because of its wonderful new support for horizontal/vertical windows) so that it would also support one of my new gadgets - the MDA PRO. Let's first look a little bit at the history of Sudoki and how it's played and, last but not least, how the solution is implemented.