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Here's an article with a very interesting discussion on HTML5. In this article Bruce Armstrong clarifies his position on the latter, and having PowerBuilder support for HTML5. He has published various articles discusing the latest revision of HTML. "I do not believe that HTML5 is currently a mature technology suitable for the generation of enterprise line of business applications. It may be in a few years, it currently isn't."

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The schedule for May has been posted on the PBTV site! Including a sneak peek at Appeon Mobile as well as our first ever PBTV webinar with Bruce Armstrong! You can now sign up for three upcoming sessions:

1) How to make your application multilingual with Enable 5.0
2) Appeon Mobile Sneak Peek
3) How to develop Multithreaded applications with PowerBuilder with Bruce Armstrong

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Looking for some interesting debates on the future of PowerBuilder? LinkedIn discussion forums are surprisingly fruitful! Vote on what topic you think would be great for a next PB book, or have your say on the future of telecommuting and PB developers. You can check this out and more on the link below (you will need to create a LinkedIn profile to be able to post a response)

 


This post comes from the SlapOut Tech blog, he wanted a comprehensive PB color chart so he created his own My PowerBuilder Color Chart, he then "wanted an easier way to specify a color. So [he] created a new function, f_color. You pass it one of the PowerBuilder color names and it will return the proper number. For example, our alternate row highlighting expression now becomes:
if (mod(getrow(), 2) = 0, f_color("White"), f_color("Gray"))
Plus, you can now do things like use Transparent and the Window colors:
if (mod(getrow(), 2) = 0, f_color("Transparent"), f_color("Button Face")) Check out the rest of the post here


Here's a very interesting PBDJ article by Bruce Armstrong on the evolution of the User Group. It looks at the nature of User Groups - a place for exchanges of information, networking, product updates etc. Are User Groups becoming less important now that social networking sites exist? Are companies not supporting User Groups and existing technology enough? What's the future of .NET and how is this linked to PB?

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