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If Your Strings Don't Zing Many PowerBuilder developers have tried writing Web applications in EAServer, building long strings of HTML in their components to create on-the-fly Web pages. Sometimes you get good response time...and sometimes the response time gets you. Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 7,970

Client/Server-The Haven Of Sensitive Data I'm a huge fan of Marvel Comics. The subtitle of this article, as well as that of its first part, 'The DataWindow Superhero' (PBDJ, Vol. 8, issue 1), shows my fantastic immaturity toward the concept of superheroes. I want it known that it's the Marvel Comics' characters, specifically T... Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 6,252

PowerDesigner 8.0 Beta PowerDesigner is a very good data modeling tool, but with UML gaining acceptance in many IT shops, Sybase has gradually added object modeling features. In November, they started another beta program named Beluga primarily to add Use Case and Sequence diagrams, but also to fix some prob... Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 8,776

A Pop-Up Debug for Faster, Better Coding Over the years we've adopted techniques that help us develop our PowerBuilder applications faster and with fewer bugs. This article describes my favorite bag of tricks, the pop-up debug menu (see Figure 1). Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 7,092

Sybase, Better Than Ever Sybase is back in the news, having once again posted gains in both revenues and profits. In fact, their latest quarterly announcement indicates they had the best quarter in the history of the company. That caps a truly amazing turnaround. Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 5,450

Avoiding Potholes On The ASP Road Forget how or why your Web project is in Active Server Pages and the whole debate that accompanies it, and let's discuss something you can use. Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 6,725

A Drag-Drop Row Indicator For DataWindows Have you ever needed a DataWindow with drag-drop capabilities to reorder the rows? If so, you probably soon realized there was no easy way to indicate to the user where the row would be dropped. This article describes an effective solution for providing a target row indicator for drag-... Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 8,700

The Next Big Thing Has anyone seen the commercial in which a repairman rings the doorbell of a young couple's house? It goes like this: a husband and wife are sitting on the couch watching television when the doorbell rings. The husband answers the door and there's a crisply dressed serviceman, toolbox i... Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 9,967

You Can Take It With You So you want to learn Java! Over the past year PowerBuilder Developer's Journal has published many great articles about Java. Most of them focused on how to take your existing PowerBuilder skills and use them to learn Java. If you're an experienced PowerBuilder programmer who's trying t... Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 8,640

Sherlock III: After The Login We've spent two articles now on Sherlock (PBDJ, Vol. 7, issues 8 and 10). This is an application that will use dynamic DataWindows to create reports for the example database provided with PowerBuilder. Using this tool we'll learn about dynamic DataWindows and how to create them. Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 8,754

PowerBuilder News Microlog announced they had selected SQL Anywhere Studio from iAnywhere Solutions as the embedded database engine for the uniQue family of contact center products. Microlog's uniQue family of Web-based customer contact center solutions includes eight major modules. Each module can be i... Feb. 1, 2001  Reads: 3,462