Matt Balent is on the third day, with 97 more tips on basic development with PowerBuilder to come!

Check out his most on the properties of windows.

With the dominance of the Iphone, we sometimes forget that other smartphones do exist and that they have specifities that may be more appropriate. Syclo recently came out with a White Paper that analyses what smartphone is right for your enterprise. You do however need to register on their site to check it out here.

A lot of PB forums are not regularly updated: while they still have helpful answers, there's no one responding to new questions which is important considering the latest releases of PB. Below are a list of sites that have regulary updated answers to PB questions you and many others have. If you don't have time to struggle with code, you'll probably find an answer on one of these forums or find someone who can help you out.

Check out the list our list of forums and discussion groups and let us know if you have any to add!

https://www.powerbuilder.eu/powerbuilder/discussion-groups

The PowerBuilderTV schedule is up for March! This webinar on March 22 will be about Novalys' new release Customization Studio 2012, presented by Christophe Dufourmantelle: "Imagine a PowerBuilder extension that would allow end-users to modify applications themselves! Customization Studio lets them edit a window as if it were a simple MS Office document. Users modify the executable version of the application, without changing the source code, creating an immediate result." This presentation will also be given in Spanish on March 8th!

Check out more on Customization Studio 2012

You can also get a free trial here to test out before the webinar!

Matt Balent will be blogging about PowerBuilder for 100 days! Over those 'few' days he'll be looking at 'a series of discussions focused on basic PowerBuilder development. Note: These articles are written with examples created in PowerBuilder version 12.5.' He's two days into the blog and he's already covered Creating a Workspace on Day 1 and Creating a Main Application Window on Day 2. We'll be following he's exploits closely!

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Many PowerBuilder developers are ISVs as well. Sybase recently published an interesting article about ISVs and in particular their relationship to the Cloud. About how hosting can be difficult for an ISV with limited resources:

1. They must anticipate what customers will want and try to accommodate as many of these options as possible. Narrow solutions yield limited revenue.
2. They must be prepared to accommodate special changes and customization, especially from high-value accounts.
3. Because solutions frequently transact data from many different customers (and those customers are often close competitors), ISVs must pay extra heed to security to vouchsafe data seclusion.
4. They must be sure that the technologies they use will be relevant and supportable indefinitely.