Bruce Armstrong

I'm sitting here at yet another user group meeting... perhaps you've seen me at one or at TechWave, or perhaps you have seen pictures of me at them on Facebook. I've got a laptop propped open where I'm usually working on some pet sample code project. Next to it is my iPad in its ... (more)

I've been discussing HTML5 for some time now. In July of 2010, I mentioned that I wasn't particularly concerned about PowerBuilder supporting HTML5 in the initial PowerBuilder.NET release (12.5) because: "HTML5 is largely still in its infancy, and there appears to be too much op... (more)

Read an interesting article about the .NET Developer Association user group in Redmond, Washington. You would think that the user group in Microsoft's backyard (the meetings are held at Microsoft's offices) wouldn't have any problems lining up guest speakers and drawing a crowd. ... (more)

Struggling to get familiar with the new PowerBuilder.NET IDE and the technology it allows you to use (e.g., WPF, REST, WCF and the rest of the alphabet soup)? Then you should run, not walk, over to the free eTutorial series that Sybase just made available for PowerBuilder 12.5. ... (more)

PowerBuilder 12.5 introduced a number of significant enhancements to web services support, both for creation and consumption. In particular, the following were introduced as new features in PowerBuilder.NET: WCF client proxy WCF service target REST client proxy We're going to look... (more)

On November 9, Adobe announced in a blog post[1] that it had decided to cease efforts to develop browser plugins for mobile devices to play Flash, indicating that HTML5 was "the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms." In case that... (more)

There's been a lot of discussion since Microsoft's BUILD conference on the fate of Silverlight. (Something that is an issue for us because Sybase was originally looking at supporting it for web app development in PowerBuilder 15.) Contrary to what a number of the pundits and woul... (more)

The more things change, the more they stay the same. There are a lot of changes at TechWave this year, largely due to the somewhat delayed effects of SAP's acquisition of Sybase. But in many ways, it's almost a return to the old way of doing them. This will be the first year that... (more)

By the time you read this, PowerBuilder 12.5 should be released. Like several ".5" releases before it (i.e., 6.5, 10.5 and 11.5), this release is a major release with a number of significant new features. We'll have a number of individual articles in PBDJ that will dive into thes... (more)

In a previous PBDJ article, we looked at using a third-party control, a ribbon control in particular, in a PowerBuilder WPF target. One of the other "most requested" features people have asked for is the capability to provide docking windows in their PowerBuilder applications. In... (more)

As you may be aware, the company I work for does both PowerBuilder and RIA (Flex) application development. We actually create client/server and web-based front ends for the same application. Doing that has really emphasized just how much faster we can do development using PowerBu... (more)

If you've been following my recent editorials, you'll know I have some concerns with HTML5 as the silver bullet for all web / mobile development. As a result, I've been a proponent of rich GUI applications for both web and mobile. To that end, I've been supportive of adding Silve... (more)

I was sort of wondering where application development is headed nowadays. What struck me recently is how long Microsoft has been trying to foster widespread adoption of smartphones and tablet PC devices. They released their first Pocket PC operating system in 2000[1] and the tabl... (more)

Techwave 2011 registration now open ... (more)

Newsletter from Worldwide Product Support Engineering that contains product announcements, certifica ... (more)

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How to let end users customize their applications – Christophe Dufourmantelle June 16th at 11: ... (more)

A new whitepaper from Sybase (SAP) that looks at the various options for moving PowerBuilder applica ... (more)

Ali Mehmet, the Technical Director of MARASCIS Ltd, hosts two one-hour webcasts where he shares his ... (more)

Transfer Knowledge of PowerBuilder Code – Christophe Dufourmantelle Tuesday May 10th at 10:00a ... (more)