by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Jul 7, 2024 5:00:00 AM
Some technologies struggle to keep pace with the constant influx of new platforms and languages. PowerBuilder, a tool that has been around since the early 1990s, is one such technology …
Read Storyby Darryl Worsham, on Mar 24, 2024 12:15:00 AM
The recent scrutiny of TikTok, the popular video-sharing app, due to its Chinese ownership has sparked a wider conversation about the risks of relying on technology from potentially adversarial nations …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Nov 26, 2019 10:02:59 AM
Usually when we modernize legacy VB6, Delphi or PowerBuilder apps some parts of the migrated application depend on using a device which is attached to the client using the app …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 11, 2019 11:37:36 AM
Welcome back. If you've been reading along, in Part 1 and Part 2 we talked about what PowerBuilder DataWindows do, how they are used, and the challenges of modernizing PowerBuilder …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 4, 2019 2:20:17 PM
In Part 1, we reviewed the nature and popularity of PowerBuilder DataWindows, and yes PowerBuilder was pretty cool back in the day. But so were leisure suits. Now, however, nobody …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 4, 2019 2:20:04 PM
The DataWindow object is the cornerstone of PowerBuilder application development. PowerBuilder apps are largely designed around accessing databases, typically for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations. In fact, most business …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 16, 2018 4:40:54 PM
4GLs were quite the thing in the 80s and 90s. Everybody either had one, sold one, or was talking about getting one. For a while, it seemed like actually writing …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 11, 2016 6:05:40 PM
Recently we announced the availability of a migration tool to move PowerBuilder apps to Java-based web apps. In a nutshell we migrate all the PB forms to HTML with Angular …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 20, 2015 10:31:44 AM
The PowerBuilder to Java/HTML5 Migration is the leading way for migrating legacy PowerBuilder code to the Java framework and the most modern HTML5 portable UI. Our automated migration technology has …
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