PowerBuilder News Desk
PowerBuilder News
All things of interest to the PB community
May. 24, 2006 12:00 PM
THIRD PARTY
PB Docs
04/01/2006 - PBDR.com announced a major upgrade of PBDoc to version 3.0. PBDoc is a tool for generating professional documentation directly from PowerBuilder source code. The new version features:
- XML/XSLT makes the output completely customizable
- Project-based allowing a different setting without having to reconfigure global options
- Pocket PowerBuilder support
- Enhanced Unicode support allows Unicode and Ansi source to be mix and matched
- Stored procedures can be cross-referenced
- Improved source parsing supporting new features such as exceptions
- Source file support for PB Source files (*.sr*)
- Improved UI with XP-style icons plus many productivity enhancements
- PBDoc can be downloaded from www.pbdr.com
PB Code Analyzer 4.1
03/21/2006 - Ascension Labs released version 4.1 of PB Code Analyzer. The new version enhances the "unused instance variables" metric report to search other objects and deliver more accurate results as well as other minor enhancements.
www.ascensionlabs.com/pbcodeanalyzer.htm
IANYWHERE
AvantGo Windows Mobile SmartPhone Beta
03/29/2006 - iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, is beta testing the AvantGo Windows Mobile Smartphone. Windows Mobile Smartphone users can now take advantage of the free AvantGo mobile Internet service with access to over a thousand Web sites optimized for their phones, including news, weather, and sports from the world's leading media brands.
www.avantgo.com/download
Afaria 5.4
03/27/2006 - iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, announced the general availability of Afaria 5.4. The latest version of the frontline management and security solution includes greatly expanded capabilities for managing RIM BlackBerry devices. Afaria is the only leading mobile device management and security solution that enables a company to manage BlackBerry devices from the same administrative console as its other mobile devices. Afaria 5.4 also includes full management and security capabilities for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, including new device monitoring capabilities. Other enhancements include a permanent client identifier for handhelds and inventory management improvements for converged mobile devices.
United Airlines
03/21/2006 - As part of its attempt to improve the customer experience, United Airlines announced that it's enhancing customers' wireless access to flight information by adding real-time access to other pertinent travel information such as city guides, maps, and weather reports via handheld devices. United is partnering with iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, through its AvantGo mobile Internet service to make this information available to customers. The new feature offers United's flight and other travel information in a user-friendly format for customers on their handhelds. Customers can easily view flight status, itinerary information, and Mileage Plus summaries - saving valuable time for United's frequent flyers. United customers can also save features in their handheld devices for quick access to more personalized information each time they travel.
AvantGo Travel Guide
03/21/2006 - iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, announced the general availability of the AvantGo Travel Guide, a mobile companion for subscribers of its popular AvantGo mobile Internet service. The Travel Guide is available as an additional "tab" in the AvantGo application, enabling users to access flight itineraries, weather, directions, maps, and city guides quickly and easily. Sponsored by Cadillac, the Travel Guide brings together access to user account information from top travel partners such as Expedia Corporate Travel, Northwest Airlines, Sabre Virtually There, and Travelocity Business.
Lincoln Financial Group
03/07/2006 - Lincoln Financial Distributors, the wholesaling arm of Lincoln Financial Group, recently launched two new technology solutions for its wholesalers: a customer relationship management (CRM) application for RIM's BlackBerry device and a Web-based portal. Lincoln understands that its wholesalers are most effective when they're out on the job supporting their clients - financial advisors - in person. Until now, wholesalers had to spend at least some time desk-bound to input the data necessary for effectively managing those client relationships. Not anymore. Lincoln recently deployed these two new solutions to all of its wholesalers during its recent LFD National Sales Conference. The first, a customer-relationship management (CRM) application, was developed by Sybase iAnywhere for the BlackBerry. It enhances a similar CRM that Lincoln launched 18 months ago also in partnership with iAnywhere for Pocket PC-based PDAs.
EVENTS
Sybase TechWave 2006
TechWave is the most cost-effective, efficient, and valuable way to obtain product training, knowledge, and skills for using Sybase products. If purchased separately, comparable training, products and services plus additional travel and time away from the office would cost thousands of dollars more than the fee for this conference.
Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, NV
August 6-10, 2006
www.sybase.com/techwave2006
Advantage Developer Days 2006
Delivered in cooperation with Jensen Data Systems, the award-winning author and speaker Cary Jensen will show attendees how to get the most out of the Advantage Database Server. The fast-paced, information-packed, full-day seminars will give attendees in-depth knowledge of how to use and exploit the new and improved features introduced in Advantage 8.0.
- New York - May 1, 2006
- Los Angeles - May 4, 2006
- Houston - May 12, 2006
- San Francisco - June 12, 2006
- Boston - Monday, June 16, 2006
www.advantagedeveloperdays.com.
About Bruce ArmstrongBruce Armstrong is a development lead with Integrated Data Services (www.get-integrated.com). A charter member of TeamSybase, he has been using PowerBuilder since version 1.0.B. He was a contributing author to SYS-CON's PowerBuilder 4.0 Secrets of the Masters and the editor of SAMs' PowerBuilder 9: Advanced Client/Server Development.