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TechWave goes global…

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 8:47 A GMT-08
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. Original Entry

Microsoft’s Plans for Windows Mobile…

Friday, 30 January 2009 1:17 P GMT-08
Microsoft has indicating that they’ll be making a major announcement in February about Windows Mobile.  Early indications are that they will announce, among other things, a narrowing of focus of the product to a selct few devices.  Not sure tha

DataWindow Formatting Tip

Thursday, 29 January 2009 9:47 A GMT-08
This is from Chris Werner in the Sybase newsgroups.  Someone asked if there was a way to improve the formatting of data in a grid datawindow that uses cell borders by forcing a leading or trailing space on the data.  Chris’ response: I’m

PowerBuilder Accelerated Development Tour

Monday, 19 January 2009 9:47 A GMT-08
The PowerBuilder Accelerated Development Tour is making it’s swing through the U.S.  Currently scheduled stops are Dallas and Houston, with more to be announced soon.        Original Entry

Reading and writing a blob in chunks

Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:47 P GMT-08
At least with Oracle using the DBMS_LOB package. The issue with using SELECTBLOB and UPDATEBLOB is that you have to store the entire blob in memory. That could create an issue if you’re trying to process extremely large amounts of data. Fort

Some issues with PBTrace

Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:47 P GMT-08
One of the new features added beginning with PowerBuilder 10.2 was the ability to toggle database tracing on and off by setting the PBTrace parameter to either 0 or 1 in the DBParm attribute of the transaction object. Techno-kitten.com reference

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Mobile Star Awards 2008

Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:47 P GMT-08
Sybase took honors in several categories of the Mobile Star Awards, including a Gold in the Application Development category for PocketBuilder. Application Development Gold Star - Sybase PocketBuilder Database Gold Star - Sybase SQL Anywh

PowerBuilder Advanced Development Tour

Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:47 P GMT-08
PowerBuilder 11.5 just came out and Sybase will share how the new features and capabilities will help accelerate your development, bring aesthetic enhancements to your PowerBuilder applications, and simplify .NET development at the PowerBuilder Advan

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? - Part 3

Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:47 P GMT-08
Why “Sprechen Sie Deutsch?” again? Because a majority of the folks in Switzerland speak German (though 3 other primary languages are spoken there as well). I’ll be joining John Strano and Steven Dunn of Sybase to do some speaking a

Save the dates…

Thursday, 15 January 2009 10:47 P GMT-08
TechWave 2009 will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 16-20.        Original Entry