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Dear Sybase User;
Thank you all for joining us on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006 for the Western Canada Sybase User Group meeting (WCSUG) held at the Westin Hotel in downton Edmonton. Joe Burger, the Regional Director for the ISUG was on hand to open the meeting of the WCSUG and was able to offer a discount special on joining ISUG. All attendees received a special code that will allow any individual to join ISUG and get over $7,000 worth of NFR software for $60. The regular ISUG rate will be increasing to $90. So this was an excellent deal for the WSCUG members! Joe was also able to run through the ISUG member benefits and explain how ISUG operates and what services they provide to the local User Group community. ISUG sent allong some NFR software and give aways for the event.
The second presenter was Chris Pollach, President of Software Tool and Die Inc. and the Coordinator of the Ottawa, Canada Sybase User Group. Chris first opened his presentation with a peek at some really interesting PB applications developed by DWExtreme, a complete web site built in PB 10.2.1 with artifical intelligence, then a complete web portal (smlPortal) built by PowerObjects. Chris explained that Ottawa also has the largest group of PB developers in Canada with over 3,000 licenses in the one city (over 700 alone in one government department)! The OSUG group has over 2,000 on the emailing list with 619 active members.
Next on Chris' presentation was PocketBuilder 2.0.4. Chris demostrated the STD Foundation classes and how quickly they can be used to build hand-held applications for Windows Mobile devices. A quick tour of a typical PDA application and the AirMan Mobile application Chris built for WinFoeld Solutions using PocketBuilder. Airman Mobile was the fiirst production application originally done in PK 1.0 and deployed to JFK. This was a special day too, as the audience was informed that Airman and Airman Mobile were being installed that week in the Edmonton Ariport!
The presentation then turned towards PowerBuilder 10.2.1 and 10.5 demonstrating Web Services, New GUI, TreeView DW's and how to build ASP and ASP.Net applications using any PB version and EAServer! The audience was very impressed with the TV DW with auto-size height on all bands and the "power" of the Web Datawindow (DW.Net).
After a short coffee break, the presentation turned to PowerBuilder 11.Net with live demonstrations of building a WinForm, WebForm (both classic and web styles) - plus, the Smart Client support. Chris demostrated his new Foundation Classes for PB 11.net and how fast you can build WebForm applications. This part of the presentation concluded with a fully working prototype application Chris had built in 3 hours that a VisualStudio team had been working on for three months and only had "mock-up" screens working with limited database access. This really showed how PowerBuilder 11.Net can put the RAD back in development within the .Net realm!
The last presentation was from Christophe Dufourmantelle from Novalys on Visual-Expert 5.6 and VisualGuard for PowerBuilder. Christophe was able to demostrate the "application mining" capabilities of VisualExpert to understand it's complete make-up and to perform impact analysis on any PowerBuilder application. The new version is also able to understand how PB applications comsume and utilize Stored Procedures and PL and TransAct SQL! The last part of his presentation focused on the new VisualGuard product that easliy allows security changes to your application without recompiling - most impressive!
All in all I believe that the attendess gained allot more knowledge of Sybase products, Power/PocketBuilder and EAserver direction plus some very interesting add-on products for the IDE suite. Thank to Christophe Dufourmantelle from flying in all the way from Paris France, Ahmadou Monfopa from Sybase Toronto for setting up the event and Joe Burger for joining us from ISUG!
Regards ... Chris
