We are going to create a bare-bones email object. Of course you can expand that in the future if you like, but for now, let's just create the functionality that we need. I start by creating a custom class. In case you aren't familiar with the process look at Figure 1. Let's start with an instance variable. N_cst_mailer Instance Variables private mailMessage io_mail_message // The message to send I made the instance variables private so let's write a couple of functions to populate our mail Message. We'll start with the TO. Note that the io_mail_message contains an array of objects called recipient. One of the properties of that object is recipientType. We are looking for the recipientType of mailTo! There are several other types that don't concern us. N_cst_mailer.of_to // DESCRIPTION // Returns the current TO address int li_count, li_max li_max = upperBound(io_mail_m... (more)

Cloud Expo, Inc. Announces Cloud Expo 2011 New York Venue

Click Here to Save $800 at Cloud Expo New York ! Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. Cloud Expo - International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-focused event and is held in New York, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo, and Hong-Kong. Over 900 corporate sponsors and more than 65,000 industry professionals have participated in Cloud Expo since its inception, tenfold more than all other Clo... (more)

Three Mobility Trends That Will Change Your Business — InformationWeek

IT organizations need to evaluate and adopt enterprise mobility management tools to take advantage of the consumerization of IT, while maintaining the security and reliability that businesses demand.  By Maribel Lopez InformationWeek Mobile has become mainstream with worldwide subscribers reaching over 5 billion, nearly 74% of the world's populace, at the end of 2010. While devices such as smartphones and tablets are still a minority of the connections we see today, these products are changing both consumers' and enterprises' views of what can be accomplished with a mobile device... (more)

Consolidated Database Creation

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Refactoring Corner: Partitioning DataWindow Technology

One of the main goals of PowerBuilder Classic application refactoring is to divide the code into logical partitions. Although you will likely not gain significant performance increases in exchange for your efforts, you will achieve two other highly significant gains. First, your logic will gain interoperability; you will have the ability to share application business and data logic with other applications developed in other .NET languages. (I say ability because you still need to make your method interfaces Common Type System compliant.) Second, your code maintenance activities w... (more)