Who doesn't like free things?! From Chris Pollach's blog The Great White North Technical Evangelist: " "Jermery Lakeman has developed a set of functions designed to really optimize a number of common operations used by many PowerBuilder applications. These common functions (called FastFuncs) have been implemented using PowerBuilders internal system direct call interface to give the maximum possible performance! The set of FastFuncs functions include (to highlight a few): bit-wise operations, string building, string replace all, string splitting, and a function to obtain the current stack trace."

The best part, you can download it for free!

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Looking to see what your clients, suppliers, competition are interested in when taking their PowerBuilder applications mobile? You can check out the Mobile Survey recently put online.?PBDJ has just published some of the results from the survey that you can find here. If you want to see the full results to the mobile survey you can check them out here by filling out the survey yourself.

Bloggers have questions to: Here the writer of the Anvil of Time went to the Sybase Community Forums to ask the following question : "I'm writing a generic datawindow processor service to look at the controls on any given datawindow. I'm using the Getobjectatpointer method to give me the name of the current control (dwo.Name can be used as well) but I can't get anything for a single control."

Find out the answer here

On stackoverflow a poster asked if its possible to create a new target using an existing application object or different application object. While the question wasnt very clear, the answer is an interesting look into the issues that will be encountered when doing the above.

Check out the full post on StackOverFlow

Here's a question that popped up recently on Tek-tips, but in fact finds its answer in a 2005 Google Groups post. It's about changing the screen resolution at the start up of a PowerBuilder application. "Is it possible to automate (in powerbuilder application), changing the screen resolution???For example, I wish to change the res to 768*1024 when my program starts, and back to original??res when exits."

Find out the answer here

Here's another older but interesting post on Stackoverflow about what ressources are available for those who are not very familiar with PowerBuilder. "I'm recently working in a company where we use PowerBuilder extensively. The only documentation or resources we have access to is some basic course saying things like "Do A, then B and you'll get C". I was wondering if there is some better crash courses or tutorials for this language on the net or somewhere else which actually explain something instead of simply taking me by the hand."

There were a number of answers to this question ranging from books to online tutorials, you can check out the full list here.