Replay of Dave Fish's Webcast: Preview of ISUG-TECH Conference 2014

In this webcast, Dave Fish previews the general developer sessions that he will be presenting and discussing the PowerBuilder specific sessions and post-conference workshop offered as well.

PowerBuilder 15 Beta Test Initiative

There are a few open seats for the PowerBuilder 15 Beta Test Initiative in Walldorf. Please read the details below. If interested please send an email to BIT_Partner_Test_25@sap.com

(Please note that all travel expenses are the responsibility of the participant)

SAP BIT Partner Beta Test Initiative

PowerBuilder 15 (Walldorf) Scope:
SAP PowerBuilder is the leading 4GL client/server development tool in the market today. The next release introduces several new features including:

• Updated support for the .NET Framework v4.5
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012
• Oracle 12
• Windows 8
• OData Support
• Dockable Windows
• 32 and 64 bit deployment

This partner test focuses on testing and evaluating these new features. Partners will work hands-on with the latest preview version of SAP PowerBuilder 15

Test Timeframe: May 7th , 2014 – May 8th, 2014 (2 days)

Location: SAP Campus, Walldorf, Germany

Tester Profile

Mandatory: 

• PowerBuilder Development Experience 
• Knowledge of PowerBuilder Classic

Preferred: 

• Experience with .NET application development, including PowerBuilder .NET 
• Experience using OData. 
• Experience creating and consuming web services

IDC weighs in on the status of HTML5

The original report is here.  In case you don't have $4000 to buy the report ( I don't! ), you can get a synopsis of what it says at one of the following:

• fierceenterprisecommunications.com
• infoworld.com

And more on the report:

• cmswire.com

SAP Mentor Monday - March 3rd, 2014

Please join us for our first series of SAP Mentor Monday webinars with the SAP Startup Focus program on March 3rd 2014.

Your Favorite PowerBuilder.TV Presenters Live!

SAP will be showing the latest PowerBuilder roadmap and will answer questions on current and future plans for the product at both Charlotte and Atlanta. Also, get a look at PowerBuilder 15! 

Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference  March 5-7, Charlotte, North Carolina

See live presentations and ask questions to some of your favourite PBTV presenters, including:

• Dave Fish
• Matt Balent
• Chris Pollach
• Yakov Werde
• Armeen Mazda
• Christophe Dufourmantelle
• Gian Luca DeBonis

The CPBC brings together many of the top application and database developers from the PowerBuilder world to Charlotte for a three day 100% PowerBuilder event to spur innovation, share insight, and foster collaboration. 

ISUG-TECH 2014 Conference April 14-17, Atlanta, Georgia

This conference covers a variety of SAP database, mobile and application products. It includes a number of PowerBuilderTV favorites and others presenting on topics of interest to PowerBuilder developers, including:

• Ronnie Po
• Armeen Mazda
• Filiberto Sosa
• Bruce Armstrong
• Yakov Werde
• Dave Fish
• Brian Le Suer

Early bird registration ends February 28!

PowerBuilder.TV sessions for late Feb / March

Stored Procedure DataWindow Objects in PB 12.5 Classic and .NET: Basics and Tips & Tricks - Yakov Werde

February 27, 2014 (Thursday) at 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) 6.00 PM CET (Paris)

In conjunction with eLearnIT's upcoming North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group -  Conference training sessions.  In this special PowerBuilder TV edition , SAP Mentor Yakov Werde will deliver a live instructor led unit from his Advanced PowerBuilder for Professionals Part 1 course.  The topic will be Stored Procedure DataWindow Objects in PowerBuilder 12.5 Classic and .NET: Basics and Tips & Tricks. As a bonus Yakov will take you on an Appeon for PowerBuilder migration ride and show you stored procedure DataWindows at work in both web and mobile environments

Manage the evolution of your PowerBuilder applications - Christophe Dufourmantelle

March 13, 2014 (Thursday) at 9:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles) 5:00 PM CET (Paris)

Learn how to share the knowledge of your PowerBuilder application among the team and to help maintain it as your team evolves. See how to manage unexpected side effects during modifications to your application. In this presentation, Christophe Dufourmantelle will demonstrate how Visual Expert lets you:

Explore and understand relationships within complex code

Automate an impact analysis to avoid the side effects of modifications

For those of you already familiar with Visual Expert, tune in to see how Visual Expert 7 improves the sharing experience, manages even larger sets of code and better automates your analyses. See how several developers can now simultaneously use the same VE project and share the results of an impact analysis.

Appeon for PowerBuilder: Resizing UI for Mobility - Yakov Werde

March 19, 2014 (Wednesday) at 9:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles) 5:00 PM CET (Paris)

The PowerBuilder platform is notoriously deficient at automatic or declarative UI resizing. In this presentation, SAP Mentor Yakov Werde will explain and demonstrate 3 techniques you can apply to your Appeon Mobile applications to achieve consistent UI resizing across a range of mobile device displays.

Just more of my HTML5 bashing....

HTML5 apps still not as good as native apps:

http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-development/forrester-html5-apps-still-not-good-native-apps-235189