Category Archive: Java

Oct
12

Creating & Using a PowerBuilder 12.5 WCF Service – Page 2

PowerBuilder 12.5 Training

Learning To Create a WCF Web Service using PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET Page 2 Back to Page 1 of the article 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 …

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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 …

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Dec
09

ORM & IoC – Hollywood Principle, Panacea or Fad?

ORM .NET Silverlight 4 PowerBuilder

The Inversion of Control  (a.k.a. The Hollywood Principle) & ORM Panacea Inversion of Control (IoC) is old news for the Java community but it is the latest and greatest panacea for the .NET world. Inversion of Control actually first came to light way back in the late ’80′s when it was mentioned in Johnson & …

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Oct
26

Making DisplacedGuy More Useful, Please Let Me Know Here

DisplacedGuy Polls

Help Me Make DisplacedGuy Blog Better For You! Without your feedback I have no way of knowing what I’m doing right, and what I’m doing wrong.  If you tell me then I will do my best to make changes. What things would you like to see more of, and what would you like to see …

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