PowerBuilder TV Webinar: Off the Grid: Migrating Sometimes Connected PowerBuilder Apps with Appeon

7/15/2015 @ 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 18H00 CET ( Paris)
Presenter: Ryan Story

Ryan Story will explore the process of developing, configuring, and deploying a legacy PowerBuilder app with Appeon Mobile that uses Mobilink/Ultralite technology to provide a consistent offline user experience.  In addition, he will discuss other techniques to make applications match current mobile app design practices and provide the user a seamless experience.

PowerBuilder TV Webcast: Appeon in 2015 & Beyond

6/18/2015 @ 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 18H00 CET ( Paris)
Presenter: Armeen Mazda

This session will outline the major capabilities of Appeon for PowerBuilder 2015, including demos of the biggest new features. See PowerBuilder functionality and UI faithfully replicated across multiple browsers. You will also see PowerBuilder extended with mobile-specific functionality, such as QR code scanning, mobile payment, and signature capture. Learn what Appeon plans to release in Q4, and about technology currently under R&D at Appeon’s labs that could make it to market in 2016 and beyond.

"The PowerBuilder Toolkit"? Your guess is as good as mine....

Found what appears to be a training resource for PowerBuilder today.

http://store.theartofservice.com/the-powerbuilder-toolkit/

What they show on the cover though is an image of a "Power Builder Bee * R Rev Racing Rev Limiter", a device used in high performance cars to cut the ignition during racing when the engine RPM hits the red line.

Perhaps the cover is some sort of joke.  I found a "Guide to Password Use in WebSphere Application Toolkit" on the same site that uses a cover from Doctor Who magazine as the image.

http://store.theartofservice.com/the-a-guide-to-password-use-in-websphere-application-server-toolkit/

Anybody familiar with the product?

My list of preferred new PowerBuilder features

Now that Appeon is handing development and distribution of PowerBuilder, they're requesting input from the customer base on the new features we would like to see.  If you haven't provided that input, you should do so soon at http://www.appeon.com/future

That said, here's my list.  I didn't actually submit them all to Appeon, as I didn't think about some of them until after I did my original submission.  But this gives me a chance to explain the rationale behind why I think they're important and solicit feedback on them.

NCPBUG User Group Conference 2015 Report

This is the second year that the North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group has held a large user conference.  I wasn't able to make the event last year, so I can't compare how well this year went compared to last year's.

ISUG Tech Conference 2015 Report

ISUG-TECH held their second annual user conference in Atlanta again.

Moving Forward with SAP PowerBuilder

Dirk Boessmann, Senior Vice President for Mobile Development of SAP, spoke at the North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group Meeting on May 8th, 2015 in a talk entitled "Moving Forward with SAP PowerBuilder".  He was already in the US for the Sapphire Conference (May 5th to 7th) and actually had to miss the special event at that conference (a JLo concert) in order to make the user group meeting.