It includes a new infrastructure, built on the Visual Studio Isolated Shell, support for WPF and WCF, as well as fully managed code at runtime. Joing the beta at: http://www.sybase.com/powerbuilder12beta
There is also a webcast on July 21st.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Latest meeting
Finally made a meeting of the LA Flex User Group. They tend to hold their meetings on Wednesdays, which only works for me during the summer, so there's only about 3 meetings a year I can really attend.
There was a power outage in the area, so the first thing I learned on the way over is that few people in Los Angeles know how to perform a 4 way stop correctly. I took surface street to avoid the nightmare of the 405. Guess that didn't quite work out.
In any event, they had technical troubles with the presentation, so they didn't start until after I arrived late anyway. The main event of the evening was an introduction to the beta of Flash Catalyst. I had looked at this product earlier when it was Thermo, and I wasn't particularly impressed then. It's come a long way. It's like they took a 4GL and split it in half. Catalyst is the true GUI design tool, and Flash Builder (formerly known as Flex Builder) is the 3GL coding tool you use to implement the logic behind the GUI.
There was a power outage in the area, so the first thing I learned on the way over is that few people in Los Angeles know how to perform a 4 way stop correctly. I took surface street to avoid the nightmare of the 405. Guess that didn't quite work out.
In any event, they had technical troubles with the presentation, so they didn't start until after I arrived late anyway. The main event of the evening was an introduction to the beta of Flash Catalyst. I had looked at this product earlier when it was Thermo, and I wasn't particularly impressed then. It's come a long way. It's like they took a 4GL and split it in half. Catalyst is the true GUI design tool, and Flash Builder (formerly known as Flex Builder) is the 3GL coding tool you use to implement the logic behind the GUI.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Update on TechWave 2009
Registration is open, and most of the content is now listed. It's primarily keynotes and education sessions.
TechWave 2009
There are also "business sessions", but still no word on the content.
What's interesting is that the first day of the event is now free. You only need to pay the $200 registration fee if you plan to attend the second day.
TechWave 2009
There are also "business sessions", but still no word on the content.
What's interesting is that the first day of the event is now free. You only need to pay the $200 registration fee if you plan to attend the second day.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
TechWave 2009 - Washington, D.C. date announced
They've finally released the date and other pertinent information on the Washington, D.C. TechWave "Symposia". It will be August 26-27 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. No final agenda or registration information yet, they are trying to get that available by the end of June. Also no word yet on any other "international" locations that are supposed to be holding similar events for 2009.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
TechWave goes global...
From Paul Horan's blog. Not much I can add, just passing it along. Bit of a bummer, as I was looking forward to the DC event. Who knows, perhaps one of the other locations will make up for it.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Fast Pitch 2009 contest
Have a mobile application you think rocks? Check out the Fast Pitch 2009 contest for a chance to win one of the $25,000 grand prizes.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Another cool utility...
Rather small one, but if you work with ActiveX controls and play around with manifest files, it's pretty handy.
It's a registry script that adds a couple of options to the right mouse button popup menu in Windows Explorer when you're on an ActiveX or related files (e.g., type library).
If you want to be able to register / unregister an ActiveX control with a couple of mouse clicks, it's great.
Chris has quite a few other utilities on that page as well. The UrlRun and the XML validator look intriguing, but I haven't tried them yet.
It's a registry script that adds a couple of options to the right mouse button popup menu in Windows Explorer when you're on an ActiveX or related files (e.g., type library).
If you want to be able to register / unregister an ActiveX control with a couple of mouse clicks, it's great.
Chris has quite a few other utilities on that page as well. The UrlRun and the XML validator look intriguing, but I haven't tried them yet.
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