<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com</title><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:26:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/portlet/163/featured-blog-graphic-145.gif</url><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Nailguns and my 9-year old</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/nailguns_and_my_9year_old.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/nailguns_and_my_9year_old.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nailguns%5Fand%5Fmy%5F9year%5Fold</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My wife has allowed me to let my 9-year old daughter use a nailgun.]]></description><category>sarah</category><category>house</category><category>renovation</category><category>historic</category></item><item><title>SySAM Licensing for PowerBuilder</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/sysam_licensing_for_powerbuilder.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/sysam_licensing_for_powerbuilder.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sysam%5Flicensing%5Ffor%5Fpowerbuilder</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the PowerBuilder 11.0 timeframe, Sybase went to a new licensing scheme called SySAM.  This post discusses some PowerBuilder specific details.]]></description><category>powerbuilder</category><category>sysam</category><category>licensing</category></item><item><title>Win32 API - Move Some Memory</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/win32_api_move_some_memory.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/win32_api_move_some_memory.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=win32%5Fapi%5Fmove%5Fsome%5Fmemory</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Copying a memory block from a "unsignedlong" address into a PowerBuilder managed object.]]></description><category>rtlmemmove</category><category>memmove</category><category>memcpy</category><category>api</category></item><item><title>TypeDiving - values of an enumeration</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/typedivingenumeration.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/typedivingenumeration.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=typedivingenumeration</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Looking into the contents of PowerBuilder types is an area that is not well explored by most people.  This sample extracts the names and values of an enumeration at runtime.]]></description><category>powerbuilder</category><category>type</category><category>enumeration</category></item><item><title>PocketBuilder 2.5.1 Update is Available</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_251_available.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_251_available.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pocketbuilder%5F251%5Favailable</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The IDE and Runtime Update for PocketBuilder, version 2.5.1 is now available.]]></description><category>pocketbuilder</category><category>update</category></item><item><title>Size Does Matter - 6 Trillion Rows of Data</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/sixtrillionrows.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/sixtrillionrows.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sixtrillionrows</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Guiness World Record - Sybase and Sun - a PetaByte sized data warehouse. Yes - size DOES matter.]]></description></item><item><title>PocketBuilder 2.5.1 Getting Some New Samples</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_251_new_samples.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_251_new_samples.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pocketbuilder%5F251%5Fnew%5Fsamples</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PocketBuilder 2.5.1 is getting some new samples from our evangelist Ian Thain.]]></description><category>pocketbuilder</category><category>samples</category></item><item><title>Unicode - ToAnsi() and Blob()</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/unicode_toansi_and_blob.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/unicode_toansi_and_blob.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 16:38:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=unicode%5Ftoansi%5Fand%5Fblob</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Occasionally&nbsp;questions come up about the relationship between strings and the Unicode and ANSI representation]]></description></item><item><title>Electrical Inspection PASSED</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/electrical_inspection_1.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/electrical_inspection_1.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=electrical%5Finspection%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As many people know, I&#39;ve been the electrician on our barn remodel project.]]></description></item><item><title>The Power Event on the Application Object</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/the_power_event_on_the_application_object.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/the_power_event_on_the_application_object.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fpower%5Fevent%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fapplication%5Fobject</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There have been a couple questions about the POWER event we put on the Application object for PocketBuilder 2.5.]]></description><category>power</category><category>event</category><category>pocketbuilder</category></item><item><title>Sneak Peek - native gradient colors in PocketBuilder 2.5.1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/native_gradient_colors_in_pocketbuilder_251.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/native_gradient_colors_in_pocketbuilder_251.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=native%5Fgradient%5Fcolors%5Fin%5Fpocketbuilder%5F251</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gradient colors for windows, UOs, and picture buttons in PocketBuilder 2.5.1  Simple enhancement to the properties for good-old background colors.]]></description><category>pocketbuilder</category><category>gradient</category><category>colors</category></item><item><title>PocketBuilder 2.5.0 EBF #2 Available</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pk250_ebf2_announce.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pk250_ebf2_announce.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pk250%5Febf2%5Fannounce</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The second EBF for PocketBuilder 2.5.0 is now available.  This EBF is for both the IDE and the device side of the product.]]></description><category>pocketbuilderebffdcc</category></item><item><title>Barn Razing (not Raising)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/barn_razing_not_raising.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/barn_razing_not_raising.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=barn%5Frazing%5Fnot%5Fraising</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You've heard of "barn raising" - well, we have been RAZING our barn - one board at a time.]]></description><category>barn</category></item><item><title>PocketBuilder 2.5.0 EBF#1 Available</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pk_250_ebf1_available.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pk_250_ebf1_available.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pk%5F250%5Febf1%5Favailable</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The first EBF for PocketBuilder 2.5.0 is now available.]]></description><category>pocketbuilder</category><category>ebf</category><category>wince</category><category>pda</category></item><item><title>Windows Mobile 7</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/windows_mobile_7.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/windows_mobile_7.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=windows%5Fmobile%5F7</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is sure interesting to us Mobile guys - a REAL update for Windows Mobile (not that WM-6 which is really WM-5.2) http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2008/01/06/exclusive-windows-mobile-7-to-focus-on-touch-and-motion-gestures/Finally, so]]></description></item><item><title>Storage Cards and DLLs don&apos;t mix</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/storage_cards_and_dlls_dont_mix.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/storage_cards_and_dlls_dont_mix.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=storage%5Fcards%5Fand%5Fdlls%5Fdont%5Fmix</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve been watching an interesting internal email thread about storage card issues in both the WM-5 emulator and actual devices.Executive Summary:&nbsp; Don&#39;t put any&nbsp;EXE or DLLs or PKDs on the storage card.We (the PocketBuilder crew) hav]]></description></item><item><title>PocketBuilder 2.5 Features</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_25_features.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_25_features.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pocketbuilder%5F25%5Ffeatures</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve been gabbing about feature &#39;foo&#39; and capability &#39;bar&#39; in PocketBuilder 2.5 for some time now.&nbsp; However, we&#39;ve never listed out what is coming (and for FREE) in the rapidly approaching update...&nbsp; The feature list]]></description></item><item><title>PocketBuilder 2.5 Bitwise Functions</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_25_bitwise_functions.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_25_bitwise_functions.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pocketbuilder%5F25%5Fbitwise%5Ffunctions</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[PocketBuilder 2.5 has copied and made &quot;native&quot; the &quot;bitwise&quot; functions from PFC.&nbsp; Combined with the already resident PocketBuilder capability to both enter and display hex values, this makes MY life a bit easier (and anybody]]></description></item><item><title>Replacement for a USELESS PocketPC Common File Dialog box</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/replacement_for_a_useless_pocketpc_common_file_dialog_box.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/replacement_for_a_useless_pocketpc_common_file_dialog_box.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=replacement%5Ffor%5Fa%5Fuseless%5Fpocketpc%5Fcommon%5Ffile%5Fdialog%5Fbox</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why didn&#39;t I see this before...Everybody knows how totally useless the Microsoft supplied &quot;common file dialog box&quot; on PocketPC and SmartPhone is (soooo many restrictions).Poking around I found a replacement library that removes those re]]></description></item><item><title>Low Life - memory fragmentation and process slots...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/low_life__memory_fragmentation_and_process_slots.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/low_life__memory_fragmentation_and_process_slots.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=low%5Flife%5F%5Fmemory%5Ffragmentation%5Fand%5Fprocess%5Fslots</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ian pointed me to this pair of blog postings about the memory fragmentation issues that low level people like the PocketBuilder team lives every day...IOW - &quot;I have a 128MByte device - what do you mean I&#39;m out of memory??&quot;http://blogs.m]]></description></item><item><title>New application object event - &quot;Power&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/new_application_object_event__power.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/new_application_object_event__power.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Fapplication%5Fobject%5Fevent%5F%5Fpower</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We are just finishing up an event on the application object which is fired by various runtime POWER style events.&nbsp; Henc, your application can centralize the handling for requests and notifications like:Hibernate (a nice name for &quot;low on mem]]></description></item><item><title>07/07/07 and we picked up a Wii</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/070707_and_we_picked_up_a_wii.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/070707_and_we_picked_up_a_wii.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=070707%5Fand%5Fwe%5Fpicked%5Fup%5Fa%5Fwii</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A lucky day!On Saturday we went to the postoffice to pick up the mail, the kid went to the game store next door, and asked her perennial &quot;have any Wii&#39;s in stock&quot; - and the teenager behind the counter said &quot;YUP - one left&quot;.Soo]]></description></item><item><title>PocketBuilder 2.1 Now Available</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_21_now_available.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/pocketbuilder_21_now_available.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pocketbuilder%5F21%5Fnow%5Favailable</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The 2.1 update contains: Windows Mobile 5 and 6 supportMicrosoft Vista supportNative interop with the new ARM based&nbsp;emulators&nbsp;Full SQL Anywhere 10 and UltraLite 10 support (but NOT UltraLite-MobiLink-10 - but soon)updated documentationALL t]]></description></item><item><title>SQL Anywhere-10 and Unicode</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/sql_anywhere10_and_unicode.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/sql_anywhere10_and_unicode.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sql%5Fanywhere10%5Fand%5Funicode</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This has just bitten me again - the way that SA-10 has changed the Unicode policy on CE devices.The manifestation to the application is that the you cannot connect to your database (even getting a popup window to re-enter user-id and find the databas]]></description></item><item><title>Symbol PPT-8146 (PPC-2002) Oddities</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/symbol_ppt8146_ppc2002_oddities.htm</guid><link>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/symbol_ppt8146_ppc2002_oddities.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://reedshilts.pbdjmagazine.com/console/comments/popup/?f=symbol%5Fppt8146%5Fppc2002%5Foddities</comments><dc:creator>Reed Shilts</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I recently picked up a Symbol PPT-8146 barcode scanner on eBay in order to duplicate a strange customer issue.&nbsp; Yes, this device is both underpowered and discontinued, but that&#39;s what the customer had...(heh - got it for a good price though]]></description></item></channel></rss>