Most families have a
member who bestows shame
on the rest of the clan.
For every 20 or so family
members, there's a
drunken cousin Ted, who
has always been an
embarrassment. He gets
drunk at weddings and
starts fights at his
child...
You don't know .NET. A
lot of people seem to
have a problem figuring
out what .NET actually
is. Many people thought
it was a top-level domain
from ICANN, while others
thought it was a new
software package from
Microsoft akin to
BackOffice.
Many terms are born out
of reality, based on
observable evidence. When
I hear the term silent
majority I think of a
large crowd of people,
sharing some commonality,
moving along peacefully
without fanfare or press
coverage. Maybe th...
In this article we'll be
discussing some important
events. No, we aren't
talking about birthdays
or anniversaries
(although those are
certainly important), but
about critical
PowerBuilder component
life-cycle events that
fire off ...
The Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) is
for accessing online
directory services. It
runs directly over TCP
and can be used to access
a standalone LDAP
directory service.
Developed in the early
1990s, it defines how a
c...
In Part 1 of this article
(PBDJ, Vol. 9, issue 4)
we discussed creating
resource DLLs using the
open-source LCC-WIN32 C
compiler, maintaining
string phrases in its
IDE, and utilizing the
compiled resource DLLs in
our PowerBuilder
...
A key challenge when
developing custom
software is creating
effective design
specifications. A good
design provides two key
benefits: (1) it serves
as a specification so
developers can build the
proper system, and (2) it
serves as...
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).
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Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be
Sybase has just released
the latest version of its
premier .NET development
tool in PowerBuilder
version 11.2. I am proud
to say that I haven't
missed a beta since
November 1989 (version
0.8) and that includes
PocketBuilder and
InfoMaker too. I need to
thank the people at
Sybase for co
In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and Web Forms
applications (as well as
assemblies and Web
Services) that access
Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJBs) in Sybase's own
EAServer. As you'll see
over the course of this
article, integratin
HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out to
PowerBuilder Libraries
(PBLs) and checking
objects in from PBLs.
These operations are
non-standard to most
source cont
Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder.
Phase 1 was the
implementation of web
services in PB9 and Phase
2 was the release of
DataWindow.NET, which was
packaged with PB 10.
Phases 3 and 4 were the
more significant phases.
In P
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 PBD
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HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out
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
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