Jason L. Froebe – Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

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PowerBuilder: Download your PowerBuilder patches for v11.x, 12.x before April 15th! Sybase is taking them away!

by Jason L Froebe on April 12, 2013, no comments

Download the ebfs (patches) for PowerBuilder 11x and 12x now before Sybase removes them from the my.sybase.com! Announcement from SAP/Sybase: April 11, 2013 Dear Valued Sybase Customer: This letter provides notification of the end of sale for the following versions of Sybase PowerBuilder. Product Platform End of Sale Migration Path PowerBuilder 12.x Windows 04/15/2013 PowerBuilder [...]

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For those of you on Facebook and are interested in PowerBuilder….

by Jason L Froebe on January 6, 2010, one comment

Subject: Old PowerBuilder Facebook page deactivated Hi Everyone, Happy new year! As of today, the old PowerBuilder facebook page is deactivated. Please be sure to become a fan of PowerBuilder here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PowerBuilder/160355699256 Go PB!!

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Sybase’s PowerBuilder v12 is powerful, .NET based, and wonderful! Why you shouldn’t use it

by Jason L Froebe on August 27, 2009, 14 comments

The following is MY perception of Sybase’s PowerBuilder: Years ago PowerBuilder was king.  No one could touch it.  It was relatively inexpensive.  Microsoft’s Visual Basic matured and the Pascal based Borland’s Delphi was released.  Then it fell and fall it did. As it was falling from the throne Sybase purchased Powersoft, makers of PowerBuilder.  As [...]

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Native support of SQLite in Sybase PowerBuilder and PowerDesigner?

by Jason L Froebe on July 9, 2008, 2 comments

What I would love to see is native support for SQLite. http://www.sqlite.org It is the most installed embedded database on the planet hands down.  Don’t believe me?  You know that Firefox web browser, Thunderbird newsreader, most Adobe products, Miro, etc all have it embedded?  – reference http://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html We use it extensively at work as: staging [...]

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PowerBuilder 11.2 is coming out shortly

by Jason L Froebe on March 20, 2008, 3 comments

Speed in Development. Speed in Deployment. Speed in Performance. PowerBuilder 11.2 will be available shortly and we are holding a Web seminar with John Strano to highlight the key features of this release. During this Web seminar, John will show you the new capabilities found in PowerBuilder 11.2 that bring increased performance to your mission-critical [...]

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