Chris Pollach

Please join us on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 1 & 2, 2009 for the next Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) special event! OSUG's mission is to create a Sybase community in the National Capital area of Canada where users can share knowledge, experiences, and best practices. Users ... (more)

    A man is walking home   alone late one foggy     Halloween night, when   behind him he hears:   BUMP... BUMP... BUMP... Walking faster, he looks back   and through the fog making   out the image of an upright   casket banging its way down   the middle of the stre... (more)

  ** Hot News **     Just to let you know that I have just uploaded a new PocketBuilder example application that uses the "Crypto" object in the STD Foundation Class framework. The new example is located on the SourceForge website where the newer FC versions are now located. P... (more)

  ** Hot News ** Dear Sybase Enthusiast;     This is a preliminary announcement about the upcoming Ottawa Sybase User Group meeting to be held on December 1st and 2nd, 2009. For the first time in our history, this will be a two day event hosting many Sybase professionals, 3rd p... (more)

  Hot News       Paul Horan of Sybase has compiled a three part series of documentation showing a complete WPF/XAML application built in PB 12.Net beta 1 step by step. You can access the series of articles from the links below... Part 1 Part 2  Part 3      Full PB 12.NET source... (more)

  You may live in Canada ... IF   If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, You may live in Canada.   If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, You may live in Canada.   If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same tim... (more)

    COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT    ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.  ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou. ABBOTT: Your computer? COSTELLO: I don... (more)

PowerBuilder Developer's Journal I just wanted to acknowledge the tremendous increase in the amount of Blog activity that I have received already this year! I think (and hope) that this is because many Sybase professionals out there have come to visit my site for latest informat... (more)

Thank You I would just like to take a moment and thank everyone who took the time to vote for the ISUG Jouranl Awards in August. I am pleased that I was nominated in the Development category. I am also very pleased to win the coveted award this year. It was a pleasure writing th... (more)

   ** Hot News **           There is a new (old) kid in town that may give Microsoft's Visual Studio a run for its money ... at least in the database oriented application market that is! What I am talking about here is Sybase's new PowerBuilder 12.NET application development... (more)

   ** Hot News **      PowerBuilder 12.NET Beta1 drop#2 was released to the PB community on August 28, 2009. This is the latest release from Sybase engineering built on August 19, 2009 and indentifies itself as build #4102. If you have already installed the first Beta1 versio... (more)

  ** Hot News **         The SourceForge web site has undergone a major rennovation over the past month. SourceForge is where the STD (Software Tool & Die) Foundation Classes for PocketBuilder, PowerBuidler and EAServer are housed. So the next time you visit the web site, ple... (more)

  ** Hot News **    Looking for 4 people ...   PowerBuilder Developer  (3) Location:   Regina, Saskatchewan Type:   Permanent Job:  Analyzing requirements, developing and implementing technical solutions, and providing production support services. Qualifications:  4-7 years ... (more)

PBDJ - PowerBuilder Journal PowerBuilder 11.5 was released in the third quarter of 2008 and by early 2009 had made its way into many IT development shops. The draw is a significant set of enhancements that move the development experience closer to the nirvana anticipated in the ... (more)

Yes size really does matter when you are talking about a client/server application, web server, or application server communicating with a database management system. Size is often overlooked when designing very large application systems that can potentially generate an excessive... (more)

  ** Hot News **      The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) is about to launch a great new feature to support the ongoing learning and mastering goals of PowerBuilder developers world wide. ISUG will now be offering comprehensive online educational courses on PowerBuilde... (more)

  ** Hot News **         The new PowerBuilder release 12.NET  Beta1 software has been released!   The major functional changes are ... PowerBuilder Classic and PowerBuilder .NETMigration of Win32 or Windows Forms Applications WPF RuntimeWPF DataWindowData Source ConnectionsWCF... (more)

  ** Hot News **         The new PowerBuilder release 12.NET  Beta1 software has been released!   The major functional changes are ... PowerBuilder Classic and PowerBuilder .NETMigration of Win32 or Windows Forms ApplicationsWPF Runtime WPF DataWindowData Source ConnectionsWCF... (more)

  ** Hot News **         The new PowerBuilder release 12.NET  Beta1 software has been released!   The major functional changes are ... PowerBuilder Classic and PowerBuilder .NETMigration of Win32 or Windows Forms ApplicationsWPF Runtime WPF DataWindowData Source ConnectionsWCF... (more)

  ** Hot News **         The new PowerBuilder release 12.NET  Beta1 software has been released!   The major functional changes are ... PowerBuilder Classic and PowerBuilder .NETMigration of Win32 or Windows Forms ApplicationsWPF Runtime WPF DataWindowData Source ConnectionsWCF... (more)