From Rich Bianco's PB Blog, The Displaced Guy: "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 catch up for years unfortunately they cannot stay focused on something long enough to make it great? like PowerBuilder did. Java has a very nice niche in the market, well niche may be too strong a word as Java is very alive in the corporate world with large enterprise applications but it has never reached critical mass like PowerBuilder did and probably never will.

Will PowerBuilder ever be the tool of choice again? Highly unlikely but not impossible."

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This coming Monday, Luca Ferrante will be displaying his new PowerBuilder application that's been taken mobile with Appeon Mobile. On the left, we've got a little peek at what the application he'll be showing Monday. Please note that his webinar will be given in Italian. You can still sign-up for the webinar here.

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Novalys has released their periodic newsletter for February 2013, this issue focuses on the future of PowerBuilder, in particular the efforts put in by SAP to boost PowerBuilder among new and old developers.

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Through his blog, the Anvil of Time, Matt looks at "two ways to write to the Event log in Windows and indicate the source of the message... Reportevent External Function and Eventcreate command line command"

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Nella sessione, Luca Ferrante mostrerà come sia
possibile sviluppare concretamente, apps native per dispositivi mobili, utilizzando PowerBuilder ed Appeon Mobile.

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Il lancio di Appeon Mobile rende finalmente concreto lo sviluppo mobile di applicativi PowerBuilder, in maniera semplice e veloce, e senza la necessità di fare ricorso ad ulteriori tecnologie. Con Appeon Mobile si sfruttano i propri skills Powerbuilder, con le sofisticate caratteristiche di gestione dati che gli appartengono, per costruire apps complete e "data centriche" deployabili su qualsiasi dispositivo mobile dotato di sistema operativo iOS, Android, Windows Phone ecc. Il webcast illustra le principali caratteristiche di questa tecnologia rivoluzionaria per lo sviluppo di soluzioni aziendali mobile, evidenziando inoltre le diverse possibilità che Appeon Mobile offre nella realizzazione di interfacce "user friendly", nonchè le problematiche connesse. Il tutto mostrando una app iOS esemplificativa, realizzata con PowerBuilder e Appeon Mobile, denominata: Genepesca Retail Solution.

Costruire apps iOS con PowerBuilder? E' semplice con Appeon Mobile!