Struggling to get familiar with the new PowerBuilder.NET IDE and the
technology it allows you to use (e.g., WPF, REST, WCF and the rest of the
alphabet soup)? Then you should run, not walk, over to the free eTutorial
series that Sybase just made available for PowerBuilder 12.5.
The training was put together by Yakov Werde. Yakov, for those who may not
have heard of him, is the managing partner of eLearnIT LLC. Prior to that he
spent more than 10 years as a trainer for Sybase, teaching classes on
PowerBuilder, Java and .NET. And before that he was a software developer like
you and me using PowerBuilder. So he knows of what he speaks. (Yakov is also
a regular author for PowerBuilder Developer's Journal and the ISUG Technical
Journal, a member of TeamSybase and a PowerBuilder MVP.)
As the term "eTutorial" implies, this is an online series. All you need to
use to take ... (more)
Security specialists are fond of using expressions like "robust protection"
and "multi-layered defenses" when it comes to setting out their stall and
telling us exactly how they are able to protect our data and applications.
Looking closer at enterprise security, we see that lower down the buzzword
pecking order for some reason is the word "insight" in its various forms.
It seems insight means more than one thing in information technology these
days, but perhaps it's no coincidence that every meaning or interpretation of
the term essentially falls somewhere under the umbrella of e... (more)
The GC Community Cloud ITSS documentation stipulates the Cloud service
specifications that the Government of Canada plans to deploy, and can be used
by external commercial providers as well as internally by Shared Services
Canada users.
They provide technical design blueprints for security configurations to
ensure Cloud environments are compliant with Government of Canada standards.
Primarily they can be used as industry-wide product specifications because
they’re based on the NIST models that are now universally recognized as the
default Cloud Best Practices, and relate to how s... (more)
This article describes how to create a grid presentation window that allows
sorting by clicking on the column header.
To begin we need to create a grid DataWindow. I'm selecting just a few
columns from the employee table. Here is my sql for the DataWindow in Figure
1.
Once we have created it I get the DataWindow painter shown in Figure 2.
There are several changes that we need to make. Let's change the status
column so it's no longer a set of radio buttons. This is a read-only screen
so let's remove the status and add a computed field.
To do this let's remove the Status column ... (more)
Consumerization is described as the trend for IT to first emerge in the
Consumer space and subsequently makes its way into the enterprise world. But
what exactly in the consumer world, that is making the users, demand the
similar things from the enterprise IT. To understand the underlying need, we
need to first examine the basic requirements of the user.
Kathy Sierra, co-creator of the Head First series of books and founder of
javaranch.com, describes the hierarchy of needs from the user(s) perspective.
The needs are stacked in the order of increasing engagement from the user.
S... (more)