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

Day 4 of the 100 days of PB deals with the PB IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It looks at common configuration changes that enhance development productivity.

Check out day 4

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?

Check out the whole article

Check out the new features of the latest release by Appeon. There are new features in Appeon Developer, Appeon Server and in AEM among other things.

You can check this out on their website, or by reading the article post by Chris Pollach.

Check out John Strano's upcoming Sybase webinar in April on PowerBuilder 12.5, Custom Visual User Objects (CVUOs or composite controls) deployed as WPF User Control libraries. You can register here.