From telemedicine to smart cars, digital homes and industrial monitoring, the explosive growth of IoT has created exciting new business opportunities for real time calls and messaging. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Ivelin Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of Telestax, will share some of the new revenue sources that IoT created for Restcomm – the open source telephony platform from Telestax. Ivelin Ivanov is a technology entrepreneur who founded Mobicents, an Open Source VoIP Platform, to help create, deploy, and manage applications integrating voice, video and data. He is the co-founder ...| By Chris Pollach | Article Rating: |
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** Hot News **
Integrated Foundation Classes ( Service Pack #3) Released!
"THE" PB Classic & Appeon Framework!
(Version 5.3.0.14 - July 11, 2014)
The FC's are *free* and can be downloaded (along with an updated sample Order Entry application) from the SourceForge website!
Release 5.3.0.14 change highlights ...
- Corrected RHMB script on base DataWindow control to display the pop-up menu properly at the mouse pointer location when the parent Window is of type "Response".
- Added "Centering" logic to the base CHILD window "wn_child_master" to center off the "Controller" window when active.
- Fixed a BUG in the Tab Page base ancestor "nc_tp_master" that fired the "oe_postconstructor" event twice!
- Revised the centering logic on the base RESPONSE window "wn_response_master" to optimize the behaviour.
- Added "Centering" logic to the base POPUP window "wn_popup_master" to center off the "Controller" window when active.
- Added window "registration" logic to the base CHILD window "wn_child_master" to allow the Controller to track its resources.
- Fixed the base ancestor MAIN window "wn_main_master" to correct a register/Unregister issue with the active "Controller" window.
- Fixed the base ancestor CHILD window "wn_child_master" to correct a register/Unregister issue with the active "Controller" window.
- Fixed the base ancestor POPUP window "wn_popup_master" to correct a register/Unregister issue with the active "Controller" window.
- Added "parent" object registration to all STANDARD NON-VISUAL objects via an "of_register" method!
- Fixed a formatting bug in the SQL trace of the TRANSACTION and DATASTORE base ancestor objects.
- Added default Boolean, long and Integer instance work variables to all STANDARD NON-VISUAL objects.
- Added error event logging to the web service CONNECTION object base ancestor (ns_connection_master).
- Revised PB version checking to be INI driven versus hard coded.
- Added new "PB_Version=" parameter to the base INI file & related code in the supporting classes.
- Added a new "of_is_copy" method to the base transaction object (ns_transaction_master).
- Various small performance improvements!
Futures
1) Tune the PB, Appeon Web and Appeon Mobile single source framework.2) Add more PB, Web and Mobile features.
3) Integrate Open Source tools like Spell Checking, OCR, Imaging and more!
4) Add new GUI controls
5) Extend the IIS (Web Services) framework
Note: There will be BETA release of the FC's coming soon after Appeon 7.0 beta is released that supports multiple web browsers ... Please stay tuned to this blog for more news releases!
Regards ... Chris
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As an educator, Chris is certified to teach PowerBuilder (first in Canada), MS-SQLServer, Sybase’s Enterprise Application Studio and EAServer integrated application/web development environment. He is former Certified SilverStream developer (CSSD) and current Certified PowerBuilder Developer – Associate / Professional (CPD-P) as well as a Certified Sybase Tools Instructor (CSI).
Chris has written numerous articles in various popular personal computer magazines, newsletters and is the author of the PowerGuide and PowerExpert products as well as the STD Foundation Classes. Currently, Chris has developed a Foundation Class library for Sybase's PocketBuilder, SAP's PowerBulder and EAServer products and now Appeon Web & mobile products that integrates JSP or ASP web development, Section 508 / CLF web standards and mobile applications. A new Web Service framework has also been released for IIs to support PowerBuilder based web service NVUO's!
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