PowerBuilder 11.5 beta is live!

New features include:

• DataWindow enhancements
  
  
  
  • New 3D graph styles
  
  
  • Gradient/Translucency
  
  
  • Tooltips
  
  
  • RichText Column Edit Style
  
  
  
  


• Native driver for Oracle 11g


• Native driver for Microsoft SQL Server 2008


• Language interoperability enhancements


• Compatibility with .NET Code Access Security (CAS) model


• Support for native IIS 7 on Windows Vista


• Support for strong named assemblies


• Support for PNG image file format


• Transaction object enhancements
  
  
  
  • DBError event
  
  
  • SQLPreview event
  
  
  
  


• Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) Compliance



http://xrl.us/pb115beta

Vote for the ISUG 2008 Journal Awards

The ISUG 2008 Journal Award will be presented at TechWave in Las Vegas, Nevada. Please vote for your favorite articles in the "Data Management System Administration" and "Design & Development" categories. The two winning authors will receive an all-expenses paid trip to TechWave in Las Vegas, Nevada where they will be presented with their awards during one of the Keynote addresses. Vote at:

http://my.isug.com/p/su/rd/sid=31

Some interesting webcasts coming up…

Enable - Runtime Explorer for PowerBuilder
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET

Enable - Multilingual Capabilities for PowerBuilder
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET

Novalys - Visual Expert and Visual Guard for PowerBuilder
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET

I use Visual Expert and am still trying to find time to fully evaluate Runtime Explorer. I'd recommend these webcasts for PowerBuilder developers.

More on testing web services…

Yet another utility for testing web services. This one is interesting in that it allows you (among other things) to create a mock service that mimics the web service you actually plan to call.

Novalys PowerBuilder 2008 Survey

Novalys is once again holding their annual survey of PowerBuilder users. Once you complete the survey, you'll be allowed to access the results of the survey for the last several years.

Updating my picture…

Folks complain that my picture in the PowerBuilder Developer's Journal and the PBDJ website isn't up-to-date. So I'm providing this more recent picture...



If you don't understand the reference you need to check out the evil mastermind ads from SourceGear. See in particular ad #10, my favorite.

Here's Morgan Ferry, my deputy at Integrated Data Services.



He's there to take over if I ever get hit by a truck. Lately, I've noticed that he's starting to drive a truck to work and I see him in the parking lot a lot. Hmmmm.....

Anyway, all great fun. Be sure to check out the blog from SourceGear's founder, Eric Sink, although I have to hope he's wrong about the death of software development magazines...

Check out PowerBuilder 11.5

Dave Fish has a number of entries on his blog site demonstrating the soon to be released features, including DataWindow ToolTips and New Graph Styles.