Read an interesting article about the .NET Developer Association user group
in Redmond, Washington. You would think that the user group in Microsoft's
backyard (the meetings are held at Microsoft's offices) wouldn't have any
problems lining up guest speakers and drawing a crowd. Well, it looks like
they do because they've had to cancel several recent meetings and have
proposed taking a six-month break to try to determine how to revitalize the
group.[1]
It had me wondering why such a group would have difficulty holding meetings.
Of course, the issue may be specific to that particular group. I don't know
enough about the group to judge that. However, assuming that is not the case,
the most likely causes would either be (a) a malaise setting in for .NET
groups in particular or (b) a lack of interest in software developer tool
user group meetings in general. It wouldn'... (more)
I'm sitting here at yet another user group meeting... perhaps you've seen me
at one or at TechWave, or perhaps you have seen pictures of me at them on
Facebook. I've got a laptop propped open where I'm usually working on some
pet sample code project. Next to it is my iPad in its case/stand with an
external keyboard where I'm taking notes on the event for my WordPress blog
and perhaps sending out Twitter updates. Next to that is my Android
smartphone so I can text message, go on Facebook, and take still photos of
the event. And somewhere in the general vicinity is the Panasonic Lu... (more)
PowerBuilder 12.5 introduced a number of significant enhancements to web
services support, both for creation and consumption. In particular, the
following were introduced as new features in PowerBuilder.NET:
WCF client proxy WCF service target REST client proxy
We're going to look at what those new features provide and how to use them.
We're also going to look at how we can package some of that functionality so
that it can be used from PowerBuilder Classic applications as well.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
First though, some background. When support for a web service client... (more)
Struggling to get familiar with the new PowerBuilder.NET IDE and the
technology it allows you to use (e.g., WPF, REST, WCF and the rest of the
alphabet soup)? Then you should run, not walk, over to the free eTutorial
series that Sybase just made available for PowerBuilder 12.5.
The training was put together by Yakov Werde. Yakov, for those who may not
have heard of him, is the managing partner of eLearnIT LLC. Prior to that he
spent more than 10 years as a trainer for Sybase, teaching classes on
PowerBuilder, Java and .NET. And before that he was a software developer like
you an... (more)
On November 9, Adobe announced in a blog post[1] that it had decided to cease
efforts to develop browser plugins for mobile devices to play Flash,
indicating that HTML5 was "the best solution for creating and deploying
content in the browser across mobile platforms." In case that sounds like
Adobe abandoned Flash entirely, it should be noted that Adobe indicated their
intentions to continue to develop the AIR player for mobile devices, so that
the role for Flash on mobile devices would be restricted to native apps, just
not browser-based apps.
A few days later in another blog po... (more)