Revisiting Continuous Integration with PowerBuilder 2017, Bonobo Git and Jenkins

In a previous blog post I ran through a example of how to use the new command line compiler feature of PowerBuilder 2017 to perform continuous integration using Jenkins and a Git repository.  One of the "next steps" I referenced in the close of that post was the creation of a plug-in for Jenkins that would make creating the build steps for the project much simpler.

Well, I've created such a plugin.  Or more specifically what I did was take the existing MSBuild plugin and customize it to create a number of plugins to do PowerBuilder compiles instead.

ISUG-TECH Board of Directors Nominations Open

The nomination form for the 2018-2019 elections is now available through November 13th at:

      http://my.isug.com/p/su/rd/survey=5406372e-bf4f-11e7-9104-bc764e10c5fd

ISUG-TECH Annual General Meeting

ISUG-TECH will be holding their annual member meeting on November 8, 2017 at 12:00pm (noon) EST.  This year the meeting will be conducted via webcast. To register, please visit:

        https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1365819227920694019

PowerBuilder User Group Meeting Germany

November 13th and 14th at the Mercure Hotel MOA Berlin https://www.linkedin.com/groups/103059/103059-6323593838392938498

PowerBuilder User Group Meeting Switzerland

November 15, 2017 at the Novotel Zurich City Hotel in Zurich https://www.appeon.com/company/events/powerbuilder-user-group-meeting-switzerland.html

Elevate 2017

Summary

Given that this was the first conference that Appeon had hosted, I thought it went extremely well.  There were a few areas for improvement, which I'll address at the end of this article.  Attendance was good and diverse.  It seemed like there were a significant number of people attending from outside of the United States.   (Appeon later indicated that 24% of the attendees were from outside North America, 4% from Asia, and 10% each from Europe and Latin America).  There was a lot of energy and excitement on the attendees part, and the sessions overall appeared to have been high quality and well attended.  The facilities were great, if a bit small, and the services provided by Appeon to facilitate travel between the downtown hotels and the conference location were a great touch.  If you didn't attend this year I would highly recommend it next year, particularly given we should have some exciting new 2018 features to see next year.

Spell checking in the new PowerBuilder 2017 Rich Text Edit Control

The original Rich Text Editing control shipped with PowerBuilder was based on an OEM of a popular third party control at the time called HighEdit. By the time 10.5 came out though, that control was quite dated and no longer supported by the vendor. As a result, in 2006 Sybase replaced that control with an OEM of another popular third party control called TX Text Control. There are licensing issues with that control though.  So with the release of PowerBuilder 2017 Appeon updated the control again, replacing the OEM of the TX Text Control with an OEM of the TE Edit Control.