Upcoming PowerBuilder.TV Episodes

Appeon Mobile Sneak Peek - Catch-up session -- Armeen Mazda
June 19th 2012 at 12:00 AM EST (New York) - 18h00 CET (Paris)

 

PowerBuilder Developers Conference announced, including call for papers

The PowerBuilder Developers Conference! The conference will be held October 15-19, 2012 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, concurrently with SAP TechEd.

Interesting take on measuring the popularity of programming languages

Particularly if you have some issues with the method that TIOBE uses.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2012/06/5-ways-to-tell-which-programming-lanugages-are-most-popular.php

Not sure they address the problem as far as PowerBuilder is concerned though.  For example, the first method measures data from StackOverlow and GitHub.  The first makes sense.  I doubt there are many if any PowerBuilder projects on GitHub though, which doesn't mean the language isn't used, it just means it isn't used with GitHub.

Similar issues with one of the sources that one of the commenters on the article makes.  They recommend looking at data from itjobswatch.co.uk, at least as far as popularity within the UK.

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?page=3&sortby=0&orderby=0&q=&id=900&lid=2618

You won't see PowerBuilder on the list, but if you search for PowerBuilder separately you'll get hits.  Apparently the site doesn't categorize PowerBuilder as a language.  That's actually fair, it's a tool, not a language.  But it demonstrates the problem using most of these statistics to try to determine where PowerBuilder fits in.

 

Haiti 2012

One of the things is was great to see was the amount of progress that has been accomplished since I was in Haiti last June.

Sybase TechWave content split between SAP TechEd and another event yet to be announced.

The Database and Mobility portions of TechWave are being incorporated into SAP TechEd which will be held October 15-19 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, NV.

The Application Development Tools portions of TechWave will be held in a separate event at the same time and general location.  To ensure you are informed of updates specific for the Application Development Tools event, you can register your interest at http://response.sybase.com/forms/2012TechEdAppDevToolsEvent.

Upcoming PowerBuilder.TV Episodes

How to make your application multilingual with Enable 5.0 - Gian Luca De Bonis
Thursday April 26th at 11:00 AM EST (New York) - 17h00 CET (Paris)

Appeon Mobile Sneak Peek - Christophe Dufourmantelle
Tuesday May 15th at 11:00 AM EST (New York) - 17h00 CET (Paris)

How to develop Multithreaded applications with PowerBuilder - Bruce Armstrong
Thursday May 24th at 11:00 AM EST (New York) - 17h00 CET (Paris)

HP QuickTest Pro now supports PowerBuilder 12.5

At least according to a couple third party blogs.  Patch number QTPPB_00034.  One site has the patch available for download.