"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.

Upcoming PowerBuilder Conferences

I'll be presenting at two PowerBuilder conferences in early 2015.  The sessions I'll be presenting at both are:

• Using Visual Studio.Net Visual Controls in PowerBuilder Classic
• Using Visual Studio.Net Non-Visual Assemblies in PowerBuilder Classic
• Using PowerBuilder Non-Visual Assemblies in Visual Studio.Net
• Using PowerBuilder.Net Visual Controls in Visual Studio.Net

At the Charlotte I'll also be covering New Features in PowerBuilder 12.6.

Both conferences also feature presentations by John Strano and training workshops by Yakov Werde.

Dave Fish will be presenting at Atlanta.

Dirk Boessmann, Senior Vice President of Mobile Development at SAP, will be at Charlotte to discuss SAPs future plans for PowerBuilder

The Charlotte conference is exclusively PowerBuilder.  The Atlanta conference is more like the old TechWaves in that it covers PowerBuilder, but it also covers a number of products including PowerDesigner, ASE, IQ, Rep Server, SQL Anywhere, HANA, SAP Mobile Platform and SAP Fiori.

March 30th to April 1st
Atlanta, Georgia
ISUG-TECH 2015 

The conference covers a variety of SAP products, including PowerBuilder.

• Over 10 PowerBuilder sessions and workshops
• One 4 hour Pre-Conference PowerBuilder training session (Mar 29th).

• Early Registration open now at $1099 (Full Registration is $1499).

May 6th to 8th, 2015
Charlotte, North Carolina
North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group Conference

• Over 25 PB sessions and workshops: Design, mobility, testing, reporting, tips and techniques

• Two days of Pre-Conference Intermediate Training Sessions (May 4 & 5)

• Early Registration open now at $295 (Full Registration is $495)

Summary of the 01/29/15 Latest News from the PowerBuilder World webcast

A recording of the webcast can be found here.

SAP

The first guest speaker was Dirk Boessmann, Senior Vice President of Mobile Development at SAP.   He had a question/answer session with the host, Christophe Dufourmantelle.  Dirk had spoken to the German PowerBuilder User Group in October of 2014 during which time he had a "theoretical discussion" of what options a company like SAP might have in deciding a future for a product like PowerBuilder.