Since PowerBuilder Developer's Journal is now in its 10th year of publication, we asked a couple of old friends to share their thoughts and memories about the magazine.

One cool feature in Pocket PowerBuilder is that you can include functionality that's not provided by the tool: accessing the Windows CE Application Programming Interface (WinCE API).

What should you do if you have diverse components in your enterprise and need to access them from your Pocket PowerBuilder application? I won't spend too much time on SOAP and Web services, as there's lots of reading you can do on those subjects, especially if you have insomnia.

In this article I'll show you how to play MP3 files with your own 'sound machine' written in PowerBuilder. But before we start to implement it, you should first understand what MP3 is.

(July 2, 2003) - Sybase, Inc. has announced Appeon™ 2.5 for PowerBuilder, the first comprehensive solution of its kind to allow IT departments to quickly and easily deploy critical client/server applications to the Web. This low-risk, comprehensive solution allows IT departments t

Myth: 'Creating reports with InfoMaker is easy,' a partially accurate statement, on the surface. Reality: Let's change that to: 'Formatting your report with the InfoMaker tool is easy, once you've figured out the data to be reported.'

PowerBuilder has been a popular choice for client/server application development for many years and there are a half-million existing applications in production today.

PowerBuilder's recent evolution has provided us with more options for developing our applications. We can use PowerBuilder to develop within service-oriented architectures, .NET environments, multitier architectures, and more.

I recently participated in a development meeting in which handheld and database deployment was the main topic. Some participants became confused about the difference between a mobile and an embedded database as a result of this discussion.

When I started using distributed DataWindows, the slow performance frightened me, usually when the middle server and the client were in separate computers. At that time I was using a PIII 500 desktop computer, and a PIII 800 database server over a 10MB network. Although it's not the to

Sybase has released PowerBuilder 9.0, the industry-leading rapid application development tool. PowerBuilder 9.0 enables developers to build rich client applications to meet their mission-critical business requirements, and features new capabilities for J2EE and Microsoft .NET environme

Sybase announced the availability of EAServer 4.2, an open application server that has been selected by a growing number of state and regional governments for its uncompromising performance and support for secure Web services within an 'open-choice' development and deployment environme

'The tag property takes a string value.' That's what PB Help tells us about the tag property. Not much considering all or at least most PB objects have a 'tag' property. What's its mission in life? Anything we want it to be.

Let's face it - rewriting an existing application from platform to platform is not fun. But many businesses successfully served with PowerBuilder applications are rewriting parts of PB apps for the Web and maintaining the same functionality in PowerBuilder and Java, PowerBuilder and C#

I recently had the opportunity to rewrite one of our major data entry systems. This system processes payments on a monthly basis, either individually or submitted as a group under an administration company - rather like companies that have a third party handle their payroll.

In light of the release of PowerBuilder 9.0, PowerBuilder Developer's Journal had the opportunity to pose a number of questions to Dr. Raj Nathan, SVP and GM of Sybase's Enterprise Solutions Division, about PowerBuilder and where it's headed.

Now that the holidays are over, it's back to work, back to school...and back to the basics. In my December column, 'PowerBuilder and ODBC 101' (PBDJ, Vol. 9, issue 12), we discussed hooking up to a database via ODBC.

I recently presented a case study on mobile business at a local ColdFusion Users Group in Salt Lake City. Two questions dominated the Q & A section. How productive can you be with a handheld and what tools can you use to create applications for it?

My son is only 18-months old but I have taken more pictures of him than I can count. Thanks to digital cameras it's so easy to take and store pictures. Since I spend most of my time on the computer, I formed the habit of changing the Windows desktop with his latest portrait both at wor

The DropDownDataWindow (DDDW) edit style is one of PowerBuilder's outstanding features. Yes, I know there are a lot of new and exciting capabilities in the upcoming release of PowerBuilder, but in this article I'll try to solve some of the current problems with the existing features th

My goal in this article is to raise your awareness of the products available and give you enough information to go on if you choose to investigate them. I'll also discuss some of the main issues involved in searching for and selecting off-the-shelf products. Finally, this article ends

The plane has leveled off at 39,000 feet and I'm on my way home after spending two weeks in Europe. It's been an interesting trip - traveling to the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and Russia.

At TechWave 2002, I was able to catch up with Dave Fish, Sybase PowerBuilder Evangelist, and ask him a few questions. I hope you find his responses as interesting as I did.

Interfaces are one of the most important concepts that have found their way into modern software engineering in the past couple of years. Java, COM, CORBA, C# - all those languages/concepts support interfaces. PowerBuilder does not. This article shows you how to sneak the interface con

On my current project we're using PowerBuilder 7.0 to develop components to serve an ASP front end; however, the front-end developers wanted data sent to them in XML format.

PowerBuilder 9 will make the creation and consumption of Web services easier; however, we don't have to wait for its release to take advantage of these features.

With the economy down and corporate revenues stalled, how can companies reinvent themselves, live on tighter budgets, and thrive in the changing markets?

With caching there's really only one objective - to improve performance. Not having to go to the database, the file system, or rerun some piece of business logic improves performance - EAServer shows you how using caching.

8/5 - Sybase announced the availability of the beta version of Sybase PowerBuilder 9.0. The new version includes support for XML, JavaServer Pages, Web services, and third-party application servers.

When moving applications to the Web, one of the challenges facing developers is how to migrate rich client features to a browser environment. Two features that can give your Web applications a boost in both appearance and functionality are popup calendars and lookup (search) windows.

7/11 - Sybase announced that EAServer achieved record-breaking price-performance results, better than BEA, IBM, Oracle, and all other application servers, on a single-node configuration in the independent ECperf benchmark. ECperf is the industry-standard benchmark that measures the sca

If you're using PowerBuilder 6 or 7 for new development, you should really be using PB 8. It's the fastest way to build a new client/server application or move PowerBuilder business logic to a distributed n-tier environment.

Welcome to JSP Corner. For those of you who are just joining us, in this column I've been demonstrating how to write JSP applications; I've focused on writing the Sybase eMusic application and converting it from PowerDynamo to JavaServer Pages (JSP).

What state am I in? Denial, confusion, Virginia...if you want your Web site to keep track of state between requests, you'll need to understand the Session API portion of the Java servlet and JSP specifications.

New to PowerBuilder 8.0 is the ability to deploy your DataWindows to a Web server as self-contained components. These new components are called Web DataWindow Containers. These containers will convert your collection of DataWindows into HTML with the aid of your Component Transaction M

Welcome to JSP Corner, Part 4. We'll be adding some more features to our eMusic application, which we started putting together in Part 3 (PBDJ, Vol. 8, issue 12). We looked at the Logon process and built the Logon.jsp, validateLogon.jsp, and LogonError.htm pages.

The current PSR compatibility issues between PowerBuilder and the PowerJ Java DataWindow can be resolved using PowerScript and Java source to pass a DataWindow object's FullState, bringing your PowerBuilder reporting applications into the Java realm.

In the coding life of every programmer there's often a need to create a view of data that extends variably both to the right and vertically. Using a grid presentation style usually solves this problem. But what about when a programmer needs more control over presentation style?

Sybase announced a new plug-in that integrates WebGain Studio and WebGain VisualCafé with EAServer. Sybase announced the Open Advantage Campaign for EAServer, which provides a 50% discount for qualified customers who switch to EAServer.

Welcome back to JSP Corner. In this article we look at how to build a simple logon page that collects data through an HTML form and sends it to a JSP page for processing. This is a simple task that involves several aspects of Web development in JSP, including the retrieval of data from