MVC, DCI, and NetBeans Platform Applications
Jaroslav Tulach discusses the relationship between MVC and the NetBeans Platform and explains why the DCI approach offers a better understanding.
Tag Archive: Sun
Sang Shin’s online Java courses are very informative and are well paced. I highly recommend attending the free online courses even if you think you know all there is to know about Java.
The next and the 16th session will start on Sep. 1st, 2009. From this session, this course covers basic topics while “Java EE programming Advanced (with Passion!)” course covers more advanced topics. Just like other online courses I teach, this course is offered online only. For those of you who are not sure what it’s like to take this course online, please see What it’s like to take Sang Shin’s online courses. Just to set the expectation correctly, there is no real-time webcasting.
Did I mention the course is FREE? If you ever wanted to learn Enterprise Java, now is the time to sign up!
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.
Sybase
As it was falling from the throne Sybase purchased Powersoft, makers of PowerBuilder. As the the market share continued to shrink, PowerBuilder developers had more difficulty in finding new projects. Most new development was written in Visual Basic or Java.
Years went by with marketing of PowerBuilder little more than the occasional road show, TechWave presentations and the ISUG Technical Journal ads catered towards existing customers. Little to no effort was put forth by Sybase to gain new PowerBuilder customers.
During this week’s Sybase TechWave, PowerBuilder version 12 was released. It has all the whistles and kitchen sinks you could ask for. An amazing tool for development! Too bad no one outside of the die hard PowerBuilder programmers will use it.
Blasphemy! Heretic!
Consider this:
Sybase owns PowerBuilder. It owns the PowerBuilder software, PowerBuilder language, PowerScript, the PowerBuilder vm, and everything PowerBuilder.
No problem right?
What will happen to PowerBuilder when Sybase is bought out by another company? Products with tiny market share like PowerBuilder would likely be killed or in a state of limbo for several years. Anyone remember what happened when IBM bought Informix?
Do you really want to bet your career and business on a software development tool that is locked to a single smallish vendor?
Maybe, perhaps, if Sybase were to release the PowerBuilder 4GL language and PowerScript to the world like Microsoft did with the C# and Visual Basic languages and Sun with Java… Perhaps if Sybase would allow 3rd parties to develop tools based around the PowerBuilder language royalty free…
Sybase: PLEASE FREE THE POWERBUILDER 4GL LANGUAGE!
I mean, really, what benefit could Sybase have to cripple the PowerBuilder developers?
Two of my best friends, Ryan & Anna Lubke, just went completely green. No, not like the Incredible Hulk, but as in going off of the electric grid in California. Due to silly laws in Chicago, my family can’t do much to go green.
Going Green
Ryan Lubke
Thursday Jan 01, 2009
I’m not one to normally post much of anything personal on the web, however, since several co-workers found my family’s new situation interesting, I thought I might share.
This year my family and I are going green(er). Specificially, we’ve moved into a house that is off the grid meaning the house doesn’t use the typical public utilities (i.e. city water, electric, etc).
