Category Archive: Java

Jan
21

PowerBuilder Is Dead – Really Dead – Right?

PowerBuilder is Dead, Or Maybe Not

Everyone Says PowerBuilder Is Dead – But Is It Dead? Being a career PowerBuilder developer like myself, I keep a close eye on the marketplace and where I think PowerBuilder is headed.  Part of the reason that I stick with the tool is because I believe it is technically superior to most of the other development tools out there but the competition is catching up.  Microsoft has been trying to …

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Nov
12

DisplacedGuy Poll – What information would you like to see for 2013?

DisplacedGuy Poll – What information would you like to see for 2013? Would you please take a moment to let me know what information you’d like to see for 2013?  I created a new poll, and you can choose as many items as you’d like.  This information will be extremely helpful, and will be used in deciding what information is posted next year. I personally would like to see more …

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Jun
04

WaveMaker – Revisited Part 2 – Perspective of a PowerBuilder developer

WaveMaker is the next PowerBuilder for enterprise web applications

  WaveMaker Revisited: Part 2 –  Observations made by a career PowerBuilder developer For those of you who don’t know me,  I am a career PowerBuilder developer, having ridden the PowerBuilder wave from before it started until now– still riding the remnants of the huge waves PowerBuilder made in the 1990′s and early 2000′s.   I have a few rhetorical questions to start this article out– and maybe they aren’t …

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May
16

WaveMaker – Take Two – PowerBuilder Pro Reaction, OMG

WaveMaker is the next PowerBuilder for enterprise web applications

The Latest WaveMaker is freaking Amazing – Look out Microsoft – Goodbye PB! Has anyone seen the new WaveMaker?    I wrote an article about it a while ago and was pretty impressed with the tool.  I don’t remember which version I was using then but it reminded me a little of PowerBuilder, in that you can put together impressive applications in a short amount of time.  WaveMaker is used for …

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Oct
12

Creating & Using a PowerBuilder 12.5 WCF Service – Page 2 of 3

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Learning To Create a WCF Web Service using PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET Page 2 Back to Page 1 of the article Jump ahead to Page 3 of the article for file downloads Continuing through the PowerBuilder wizard for creating the WCF Service… finally we reach the confirmation window where we click finish and let PB get the WCF Service started. This is how your solution explorer will look after clicking the …

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Dec
15

Web Development is Easy & Web Applications Are Boring

PowerBuilder and Silverlight Reviews

Web Developers aren’t really true programmers. Remember the old days, the mid 1990′s when Visual Basic (pre .net) and Front-Page were the tools of the web developer?   It wasn’t long after they were doing “shadow-IT” developing Clipper and Dbase programs that you ultimately ended up supporting or converting to PowerBuilder.   If you are pressed for time browse on down to the bottom where I recommend Lynda.com for a …

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