Tag Archive: Powerbuilder


New developers for Sybase’s Powerbuilder 11?

Filed Under: Powerbuilder, Sybase by Jason L Froebe — 4 Comments
November 13, 2007

There still seems to be a steep learning curve when it comes to Sybase’s PowerBuilder. In this specific case, PB11 is no easier.

What *I* personally would like to see is:

  1. step by step online tutorials to create a multitude of projects – from simple ‘hello world’ applications to database connected applications to .NET to AJAX enabled .NET web apps
  2. online videos for the new and experienced developers rather than just feature highlights
  3. more books… from the “Beginning PowerBuilder 11″ (perhaps a ‘for Dummies’ series type book) to super advanced PB11
  4. more podcasts ( take a look at Meet the Gimp for example format )
  5. PowerBuilder gallery of open source and commercial PB applications (please don’t just point to the abomination known as codexchange) and online pb communities
  6. A better tiered licensing model: Free version (take a look at Microsoft’s VB Express for a model of what should be included for free), Student (K-university) edition, Professional / Small Business, Enterprise. There should be NO feature differences between the student and enterprise editions – the only difference should be in what PB can be used for (licensing).
  7. Open source & hobby-ist development should be actively promoted to help rebuild the PB community

Can anyone think of anything else to help new developers learn PowerBuilder?

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Coming to your city….

Filed Under: Databases, Events, News, Powerbuilder, Sybase, Training by Jason L Froebe — 1 Comment
October 8, 2007

In the next few weeks, the PowerBuilder folks will be visiting the major cities of Canada and the United States of America to train you!

  • Oct 23: Des Moines, IA – Des Moines Airport Conference Center
  • Oct 24: St. Paul, MN – Minnesota Humanities Center
  • Oct 25: Regina, SK – Ramada Inn & Conference Centre
  • Nov 13: Indianapolis, IN – Ramada Indianapolis Airport
  • Nov 14: Toronto, ON – Days Hotel and Conference Centre Toronto Airport East
  • Nov 15: Montreal, QC – Hôtel Ramada aéroport-Montréal
  • NewNov 26: Salt Lake City, UT – Davis County Memorial Courthouse, Farmington
  • Nov 27: Phoenix, AZ – Offices of DS Solutions
  • Nov 28: San Diego, CA – Location to be confirmed
  • Nov 29: Seattle, WA – Tentative location: Best Western Executel, Seattle Airport
  • Dec 11: Orlando, FL – Tentative location: AmeriSuites Airport NW
  • Dec 12: Washington, D.C. – Holiday Inn, Dulles Airport
  • Dec 13: Atlanta, GA – La Quinta Inn & Suites, Atlanta Airport

So what is this PowerBuilder tour all about? Well, it is not only to show off the latest and greatest features of PowerBuilder 11 but these fine folks will train you so you can do everything they can!

Think it is expensive or your boss will say no? Well, it is only $49 if you register before October 10th (this Wednesday). It is being hosted by Appeon, Enable, Novalys, Sybase and ISUG.

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Just installed Sybase’s PowerBuilder 11 and Created a .NET application accessing a Sybase ASE server, a MySQL server and a PostgreSQL server

Filed Under: ASE, Databases, DBI, Events, MySQL, News, OS, Perl, PostgreSQL, Powerbuilder, Sybase, TechWave, Windows by Jason L Froebe — 1 Comment
August 11, 2007

Because the of the excellent sessions and a keynote at Sybase TechWave 2007, I’m picking up PowerBuilder 11. Thought it was dead? We all heard it over and over again from the VB, C++, .NET folk. Think again and check this out!

SPECIAL PLENARY SESSION — Advancing the Boundaries of Development: How IT developers will face the future.
Tuesday, 1-2:15 p.m. PDT. | View the recorded webcast

Using the PowerBuilder Application Server Plugin
Wednesday, 1 – 2 p.m. PDT. Speaker: Evan Ireland | View the recorded webcast

Using .NET Classes in PowerBuilder
Wednesday, 2:15 – 3:45 p.m. Speaker: Xue-song Wu | View the recorded webcast

Best Practices of PowerBuilder 11.0 WinForm/Smart Client Application Development
Wednesday, 4 – 5:30 p.m. Speaker: Harry Zhang | View the recorded webcast

The DataWindow in PowerBuilder WebForm Targets
Thursday, 1 – 2 p.m. Speaker: Frederick Koh | View the recorded webcast

PowerBuilder: Service Creation
Thursday, 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. Speaker: Sheila Wood | View the recorded webcast

Did you know that you can build .NET applications easily with PowerBuilder? I did, but I didn’t realize that it was very very easy! Say good bye to C# and VB.net for any database application, because PowerBuilder is back and BETTER than anything that Microsoft has to offer!

Most importantly, the video of the key note, Future Development Will Rely on Current Core Technologies, should be out in the next few days. I’ll post the link to it…. it ultimately was the final motivator to make me pick up PowerBuilder 11. Thanks to Jason Fentor for dragging me to the keynote!

UPDATE:   Future Development Will Rely on Current Core Technologies video is here!  When you open the video click down to “PowerBuilder 11: Accelerate your development”

It took me 10 minutes from knowing absolutely no PowerBuilder to building a working client/server .NET application connecting three wildly different databases (Sybase ASE, MySQL and PostgreSQL) and retrieving/updating data to them! TEN MINUTES! I expected an hour or two but ten minutes… I’m just completely floored!

Sorry, I’m not usually this impressed and try to take everything with a grain of salt, but… Sybase, with all your faults, dang! You did good!

For comparison: The same application took me 30 minutes to write in Perl, which I’m pretty good at.

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