Wikipedia Pleas for Money, Should we give Wikipedia Money?

Wikipedia Plea, Jimmy Wales Plea for More Money in 2011 The decision is as easy as 1, 2, 3 Well, if you enjoyed my rant about Wikipedia’s Plea For Money last year, you are in for a real surprise this year! I’ll show you how great things went for Wikipedia last year while most normal …

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Creating & Using a PowerBuilder 12.5 WCF Service – Page 2

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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Creating & Using a PowerBuilder 12.5 WCF Service

Learning To Create a WCF Web Service using PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET This is a completion of a prior article where I talked about my first experience using PB12.NET to create a WCF Web Service. The WCF Service accesses a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database and is used to provide data to a web application that …

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Creating a WCF Service using PowerBuilder 12.5

Creating My First WCF Service using PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET I’ve finally taken the time to start digging into PowerBuilder 12.5.NET and this time I wasn’t going to stop until I had a working WCF Service created. Not only did I want a working WCF Service created entirely in PowerBuilder, but I wanted it to access …

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Google Analytics Actuals on DisplacedGuy.Com for April-Aug 2011

Google Analytics Actuals and Adsense Actuals on DisplacedGuy.Com for April-Aug 2011 Google Analytics Actuals for DisplacedGuy.Com – Web Traffic Moderate Traffic Growth Early – Strong Growth Aug 2011 Web Traffic has grown moderately after a consolidation period of a few months. My time to develop articles is much more limited so it is surprising …

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Wikipedia Pleas for Money, Should we give Wikipedia Money? Creating & Using a PowerBuilder 12.5 WCF Service – Page 2 Creating & Using a PowerBuilder 12.5 WCF Service Creating a WCF Service using PowerBuilder 12.5 Google Analytics Actuals on DisplacedGuy.Com for April-Aug 2011

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28

Google Analytics Actuals on DisplacedGuy.Com for April-Aug 2011

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Google Analytics Actuals and Adsense Actuals on DisplacedGuy.Com for April-Aug 2011

Google Analytics Actuals for DisplacedGuy.Com – Web Traffic

Moderate Traffic Growth Early – Strong Growth Aug 2011

Web Traffic has grown moderately after a consolidation period of a few months. My time to develop articles is much more limited so it is surprising to see the level of growth I’m seeing.

Interesting Trends seen in Google Analytics for DisplacedGuy.com

PowerBuilder making a comeback
Java has reached an all time low with only 88% of visitors supporting Java

I’m seeing a marked increase in demand for PowerBuilder content in particular PowerBuilder 12.5. This is pretty exciting for us PowerBuilder loyal developers, PB has a chance of making a comeback if the marketing department at SAP doesn’t screw things up half as bad as Sybase did.

Java supported browsers visiting DisplacedGuy.com are declining at an accelerated pace. According to Google Analytics stats, it looks bad for Java. With this being a technical site I’d expect the number of visitors having Java support to be very high however the number dropped from it’s peak of 92% when the site started in March of 2010 to only 88% of visitors visiting in August 2011. PowerBuilder developers have taken it on the chin from Java developers for years about how superior their language is, well the writing is on the wall, and the number of web searches for “Java is dead” has surpassed the number of searches for “PB is dead”.

Google Analytics Actuals – NEW Master Index

It has been a year since we started posting actual Google Analytics and Adsense statistics for DisplacedGuy.Com. They have become very popular but we’ve been told that it is hard to locate each of the reports especially for new readers who would like to view them from the beginning in order. If you are interested in Blogging for Cash then read up and learn.

Here is the Entire Collection of Google Analytics Actuals & Adsense Actuals for DisplacedGuy.Com

Money Earned through Adsense on DisplacedGuy.Com

March 2011 turned in around $9.11 in Adsense revenue and April-Aug 2011 was very low. Putting Adsense on technical sites like this is almost not worth the effort. All of my other adsense sites outperform this one.

Adsense DisplacedGuy

Google Analytics Actuals – Average Pageviews per Visitor for DisplacedGuy.Com

You can find prior reports of our actual Google Analytics on the site, for example last months’ Google Analytics for Feb 2011 specific to DisplacedGuy.Com Or you can go to back to Analytics data for Jan 2011 for DisplacedGuy.Com

A very nice increase in return visitors was noted in the last few months

Diverse Visitors Adsense Stats

Bounce Rate in Google Analytics has been steadily low around 15-20% so I left this graph off. This means fewer visitors are leaving the site before reading an article. Bounce Rate is a good measure of quality, the lower the better.

Summary, It has been enjoyable running the site. Thanks for all your kind words and tips. I encourage anyone to contact me about guest blogging to help promote your website! See this article for details about how to guest blog and steal your competitors readers.

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Jun
01

PowerBuilder 12.5 PB.NET Free Training, Tutorials & Videos

by DisplacedGuy

Having a hard time finding good sources of training and tutorials for learning PowerBuilder 12, 12.5 and PowerBuilder .NET? I did too so I decided to build the biggest list on the web and I am pretty sure I’ve done it. Next goal is 100 quality links to help people learn PowerBuilder 12, & 12.5 .NET. I add to this list regularly so you might want to bookmark this page. I will only post links that offer useful, free content. I won’t include content that requires registration (exception Sybase) as they likely have motives that go beyond my goal of just $haring. The list was last updated on Jan 26, 2012

DisplacedGuy’s Official PowerBuilder 12 & PowerBuilder 12.NET Directory of Free Training Resources

Rich Bianco (aka DisplacedGuy)

Please email me ( ) for reasons like…

Suggest a new link for learning PB12, PB12.5 or PB12.5
Report a broken link or non-free link
Regarding a PB contract (Actively under contract with IBM)
Tell me what I can do to improve the site.
Please click the Google +1 on the top of all pages you enjoyed

New Links added Jan 2012

new Official PowerBuilder documentation sets for all of the recent versions of PowerBuilder along with archived versions all the way back to PowerBuilder 5.

new New link to Techno Kitten website, source for history of PowerBuilder and a very detailed list of changes by version beginning with Version 2!

DisplacedGuy PB 12.5 .NET Training Series

coming very soon Create a full working application that utilizes PowerBuilder WCF Services, PB12.5 .NET Custom Visual User Objects (CVUO), .NET Assemblies, Conditional Compilation, Microsoft SQL Server 2008

DisplacedGuy’s PB Learning Articles

Creating my first PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET WCF Service. - This is an overview type article that summarizes my experiences creating a PowerBuilder WCF Service using PB 12.5 .NET, MS SQL Server 2008, and ASP.NET MVC3 as the client website utilizing the new WCF service.

Creating & Using a PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET WCF Service. – This step-by-step article contains over three dozen print screens and is a very detailed step by step process that I used when creating my first WCF Service. This is intended for PB developers who have not yet created a WCF Service.

Mapping PowerBuilder and .NET (C#) data types. - This is a reference page containing mapping of PowerBuilder and .NET (C#) data types.

DisplacedGuys Favorite PowerBuilder Learning Links

RESTful Service Quick Start Video - by expert Yakov Werde (26 minutes, Flash)

Mr. Werde will take you through all of the steps involved in writing a PowerBuilder application that utilizes RESTful web services. This quick start video covers the following subjects. 1. Creating a basic PowerBuilder framework that partitions the logic into libraries. 2. Examine some existing free RESTful services, and the XML or JSON return values using Fiddler. 3. Examine XML project. 4. Examine JSON project. 5. Code the RESTful service. This quick start example also illustrates the use of CVUO’s (custom visual user objects).

PowerBuilder 12 Sample Apps & PB 12.NET Code Examples

PowerBuilder CodeXchange allows developers to submit and download PB code samples.
PowerBuilder 12 .NET Stock Trader Application.

PowerBuilder 12 Video Tutorials and Training for PowerBuilder .NET

Video Demo: PowerBuilder .NET Guided Tour — Part 1 -Take this guided tour through PowerBuilder 12 to see for yourself how it’s the “Hottest Thing Yet to ROCK .NET
Video Tutorial: WPF Benefits for PowerBuilder Developers -PowerBuilder 12 is the only development tool that allows developers to migrate their Win32 applications to WPF.
Video Tutorial: PowerBuilder WCF Client Support -PowerBuilder 12 supports WCF by enabling applications to consume next generation Web Services.
Video Tutorial: Powerscript Language Enhancements -PowerBuilder 12 includes several major Powerscript language enhancements to make development faster and easier than ever
eTutorial: PowerBuilder 12 .NET StockTrader Sample Application - This eTutorial, based on the StockTrader Sample Application, highlights PowerBuilder 12.0’s abilities as both a development environment and a runtime platform for rich and thin clients. The PowerBuilder clients are delivered in four versions; Classic Win32, .NET Win Form, .NET Web Form and .NET WPF WCF. These client applications illustrate how you can leverage PowerBuilder’s enterprise .NET APIs, DataWindow Technology, and the PowerScript coding language in a developer-friendly and productive IDE to rapidly build Microsoft-compatible client applications.
PowerScript .NET Tutorial – Full Length Video - This self guided tutorial will show you how to create fully CLS compliant .NET Win Form and WPF applications using PowerScript code and employing new and current language features inside PB 12. Concepts covered include .NET Language interoperability; the Common Language Specification, creating .NET Consumer Role compatible applications using the PB 12 Classic IDE, and creating .NET compatible Extenders using the PB 12 .NET IDE.
PowerBuilder and WCF Tutorial – Full Length Video - This self guided tutorial will show you how to use PowerBuilder .NET together with the Microsoft .NET Communication Framework to create rich client applications functioning in an enterprise Service Oriented Architecture. Concepts covered include an overview of the tenets of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), an overview of the scope of the Windows Communication Framework (WCF) and the integration issues it addresses. Definitions are provided for fundamental WCF concepts.

PowerBuilder 12.5.NET – Sybase Online Books

Release Bulletin

Installation Guide

New Features

Users Guide

Getting Started

PowerBuilder .NET Features Guide

Application Techniques

DataWindow Programmers Guide

Connecting to Your Database

Deploying Applications and Components to .NET

Objects and Controls

PowerScript Reference

DataWindow Reference

Connection Reference

Native Interface Programmers Guide and Reference

Extension Reference

PowerBuilder 12 Migration – Migrating PB Classic to PowerBuilder 12 .NET

Part 1 Migration Overview and Process
Part 2 Platform and Language Issues
Part 3: Sample Application Tour: Anchor Bay Nut Company (ABNC)
Part 4: Migrating and Refactoring ABNC]

PowerBuilder 12 and PowerBuilder 12.NET Training Videos on YouTube

PowerBuilder 12.NET – The new, “NEW” dialog by John Strano
PowerBuilder .NET – The System Tree, Virtual PBLs and Project Objects
PowerBuilder .NET – The DataWindow Painter – Datawindow specifics
PowerBuilder .NET – PowerScript Painter
PowerBuilder .NET – Window Painter Part 1
PowerBuilder .NET – Window Painter Part 1
PowerBuilder .NET – Skins and PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder 12 and PB.NET Presentations from Sybase Tech Days 2011

PB 12.5 Look-Ahead – by John Strano & David Fish
Migrating to .Net – By John Strano & David Fish
PowerBuilder Overview & Roadmap – By John Strano & David Fish

Exceptional PowerBuilder How-To Web Articles for PB12, 12.5 and PB.NET

Learn PowerBuilder RESTful web services, Docking Manager & NVO Services.

How-To Build RESTful Part 1 on PBDJ by Yakov Werde – Lots of screen shots!
How-To Build RESTful Part 2on PBDJ by Yakov Werde – Lots of screen shots!
Using a WPF Docking Manager in a PowerBuilder WPF Target by Bruce Armstrong
Instantiating Service NVOs First – Getting to the top of the Pecking Order By: Yakov Werde

PowerBuilder Training Material – Prior to PB 12 & PB12.5.NET

PowerBuilder 11 and AJAX – This video demonstrates some of the AJAX Features of PowerBuilder 11.

Deploying PowerBuilder Applications with the PowerBuilder 11 Smart Client Intelligent Updater (Videos)

PB Tech Corner – Links To

Document Set ( * = archived )	Version	Language
Official PowerBuilder 5 – 12.5 Documentation Sets
PowerBuilder 12.5	12.5	English
PowerBuilder 12.1	12.1	English
PowerBuilder 12.0	12.0	English
PowerBuilder 11.5.1	11.5.1	English
PowerBuilder 11.5	11.5	English
PowerBuilder 11.2	11.2	English
PowerBuilder 11.1	11.1	English
PowerBuilder 11.0	11.0	English
PowerBuilder 10.5.2	10.5.2	English
PowerBuilder 10.5.1	10.5.1	English
PowerBuilder 10.5	10.5	English
PowerBuilder 10.2.1 *	10.2.1	English
PowerBuilder 10.2 *	10.2	English
PowerBuilder 10.0.1	10.0.1	English
PowerBuilder 10.0	10.0	English
PowerBuilder 9.0.3 *	9.0.3	English
PowerBuilder 9.0.2 *	9.0.2	English
PowerBuilder 9.0.1 *	9.0.1	English
PowerBuilder 9.0 *	9.0	English
PowerBuilder 8.0.4 *	8.0.4	English
PowerBuilder 8.0 *	8.0	English
PowerBuilder 7.0.2 *	7.0.2	English
PowerBuilder 6.5 *	6.5	English
PowerBuilder 6.0 *	6.0	English
PFC 6.0 *	6.0	English
PowerBuilder 5.0 *	5.0	English

PowerBuilder Migration Assistance Documents

Techno Kitten Blog has an outstanding archive of the history of PowerBuilder including new PowerBuilder features by version, migration issues by version, and hints about future PowerBuilder and Pocketbuilder releases.

PowerBuilder Groups and Associations

Sybase International User Group – Great place to learn, get free copies of PowerBuilder 12 and PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET !! Please tell them that Rich Bianco at DisplacedGuy referred you!

PowerBuilder Facebook Page

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May
06

PowerBuilder Intellisense – How to activate in PB

by DisplacedGuy

PowerBuilder does have intellisense

Well, intellisense is something specific to Visual Studio I believe, but PowerBuilder does have something called Autoscript that isn’t nearly as cool as intellisense but it is very useful.

PowerBuilder Intellisense

I wouldn’t have wasted the time writing a blog post about this until I learned that all the developers at the shop I’m working were not aware of PowerBuilders’ version of Intellisense.

I don’t know exactly when Autoscript became available for PowerBuilder but it seems like it has been a long time, maybe version 9 or 10. We are using PowerBuilder 11.5 but maybe someone running on earlier versions can let us know.

Activating Intellisense (Autoscript) in PowerBuilder

Turning on Intellisense for PowerBuilder is pretty simple, which is why I was so surprised nobody here knew about it. I recently signed up for a PowerBuilder training course and apparently the instructor didn’t know about PB’s Intellisense but I wasn’t able to attend so it is only heresay.

You need to open an object (or at least I think so), for example just open one of your objects for editing which will give you the “Design” menu item. Click the design menu item and then “options“. After the Design Options window opens head over to the “Autoscript” tab where you should be able to figure out everything for yourself.

PowerBuilder Intellisense MenuThe Autoscript tab is pretty self explanatory. The autoscript isn't nearly as robust as that of Visual Studio, but it is very useful nonetheless. You can get intellisense on standard objects and non-standard objects that you've created, the key is that it is activated by the typing of a dot, or period and waiting for a period of time. So autoscript opens after you type the name of an object PowerBuilder Autoscript Tab

and the dot. I chose 1000 milliseconds which works out to one second.

Differences between Autoscript and Intellisense

The core differences are that PB Autoscript is triggered by the typing of a dot after an object name, whereas Visual Studio Intellisense is far more robust and will help you with just about everything.

The PB Autoscript is not nearly as pretty as Intellisense, it looks pretty bland compared to Intellisense.

Unlike Visual Studio Intellisense, PowerBuilder Autoscript doesn’t help you “as you go” through the parameters / arguments of a method. With the PB Autoscript, when you select a particular function or event it pastes the name and puts the arguments in immediately as comments.

Conclusion and Summary of PowerBuilder Autoscript

PowerBuilder does have a feature like Intellisense that developers from smaller shops may not have been enlightened about. Intellisense has been in PowerBuilder since at least Version 11, and I recall using it in version 10 (maybe even 9) as well.

Autoscript is no match for Intellisense and it’s robust functionality but it will save you time coding when you can’t quite remember a function name. Autoscript is especially useful when you are starting a job at a new company and learning the application even though it doesn’t do everything that Intellisense does.

Sincerely,

The DisplacedGuy (who’s not really displaced)

(aka Rich)

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Apr
25

Google Analytics for DisplacedGuy.Com March 2011

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Google Analytics Actuals and Adsense Actuals on DisplacedGuy.Com for March 2011

Google Analytics Actuals for DisplacedGuy.Com – Web Traffic

Web Traffic is surprisingly strong considering the very poor job I’ve done adding quality content to the site lately.

Google Analytics Actuals – NEW Master Index

So here is the Entire Collection of Google Analytics Actuals & Adsense Actuals for DisplacedGuy.Com

Money Earned through Adsense on DisplacedGuy.Com

March 2011 turned in around $9.11 in Adsense revenue just down from February 2011 at $9.83. The highest revenue month is still October 2010 at $14.71. Most of the newer sites, deployed after DisplacedGuy.Com have overtaken it for adsense revenue because they cover niches that are better suited toward monetization with Adsense ads.

I need to learn other ways to monetize websites. Look for info on this soon.

I need to share techniques learned for using Adsense Channels.

Google Analytics Actuals for DisplacedGuy.Com

Here are some graphics for the month. If you have any specific graphics you’d like to see please say something in the comment or email me.

Actual Google Analytics Data for March 2011 on DisplacedGuy.Com

March 2011 Pageviews - DisplacedGuy.Com Actuals

Google Analytics Actuals – Average Pageviews per Visitor for DisplacedGuy.Com

This has improved to over three pages per visitor which is respectable for a site like DisplacedGuy.Com especially considering that the number of articles written per month is down severely in 2011. I am very open to guest bloggers please don’t be afraid to contact me about a guest article, see my prior article which talks about different ways to generate traffic and steal traffic from your competitors without them even knowing it (ethically and legally of course).

Google Analytics Actuals - Avg Pageviews for DisplacedGuy.Com

Bounce Rate in Google Analytics is looking very nice for the month. This means fewer visitors are leaving the site before reading an article. Bounce Rate is a good measure of quality, the lower the better.

March 2011 - Bounce Rate for DisplacedGuy.Com

Adsense Revenue for DisplacedGuy.Com – March 2011

Remember that some data may be reported in multiple channels artificially inflating total earnings numbers. These are for channels spanning a few of my websites, I greyed out some that were obvious entries for the other sites. This should illustrate a new strategy I’m using in creation of Adsense Channels.

You are allowed to attach five channels to an Ad, so I created five distinct “groups” as suggested by the help in Google Analytics. One is for the domain, one for position (e.g. Top, Middle, Bottom), one for size, one for demographic, and finally one for category. This gives you a nice view across multiple domains about which things work, notice “Above the Fold” is a top performer. If you do this and allow advertisers to see your channels they can choose to advertise on your website using your custom and easy to understand channels!

Adsense Revenue - Actuals for DisplacedGuy - March 2011

Summary

This has been another slow month for article writing. I encourage anyone to contact me about guest blogging to help promote your website! See this article for details about how to guest blog and steal your competitors readers.

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