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Reed Shilts

In addition to being one of the "old timer" PowerBuilder kernel programmers, I'm the development lead for PocketBuilder and currently drafted in PowerBuilder 11 & 12 work.
Nothing I say in this forum is official in any way, shape, or form, but it may be helpful...

Newsgroup:  sybase.public.pocketpowerbuilder
Main Page:  www.sybase.com/pocketbuilder

Some friends wanted to see how things are going at the historic house we are renovating.  This is a 160 year old "significant" house that was badly in need of a respectful renovation (so it looks and feels like an old house (well, with cable TV and Ethernet throughout...)). 
Yes - after a year or renovations, we have moved into the house.  We are nearing completion of the third phase, which is to convert the attached barn into living space.
Family Page:  http://shiltsfamily.smugmug.com/Family/98874

I also am a regular (and vocal) member of the Boston PocketPC user's group.  I often bring my latest hardware and sometimes offer PocketBuilder as a door prize - even though this is hosted by Microsoft!
If you live in the Boston area, stop on by.  http://www.bostonpocketpc.com

Other Pocket and PowerBuilder blogs...
Ian Thain: http://ianthain.pbdjmagazine.com
Chris Pollach:  http://chrispollach.pbdjmagazine.com   (a customer!)
Chance:  http://chances.blog-city.com  (a customer!)
Team Sybase blogs:  http://teamsybase.net/blogs

Reed Shilts's entries



Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld commercial is a hoot

Friday, 5 September 2008 3:51 P GMT-05
I just stumbled on the Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld commercial (at "Shoe Circus" of all places!) and it's a real

Nailguns and my 9-year old

Wednesday, 6 August 2008 9:26 A GMT-05
My wife has allowed me to let my 9-year old daughter use a nailgun.

SySAM Licensing for PowerBuilder

Thursday, 24 July 2008 10:58 A GMT-05
In the PowerBuilder 11.0 timeframe, Sybase went to a new licensing scheme called SySAM. This post discusses some PowerBuilder specific details.

Win32 API - Move Some Memory

Monday, 14 July 2008 5:09 P GMT-05
Copying a memory block from a "unsignedlong" address into a PowerBuilder managed object.

TypeDiving - values of an enumeration

Wednesday, 25 June 2008 8:39 A GMT-05
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.

PocketBuilder 2.5.1 Update is Available

Thursday, 12 June 2008 2:26 P GMT-05
The IDE and Runtime Update for PocketBuilder, version 2.5.1 is now available.

Size Does Matter - 6 Trillion Rows of Data

Thursday, 15 May 2008 6:36 A GMT-05
Guiness World Record - Sybase and Sun - a PetaByte sized data warehouse. Yes - size DOES matter.

PocketBuilder 2.5.1 Getting Some New Samples

Thursday, 8 May 2008 8:28 A GMT-05
PocketBuilder 2.5.1 is getting some new samples from our evangelist Ian Thain.

Unicode - ToAnsi() and Blob()

Thursday, 1 May 2008 11:38 A GMT-05
Occasionally questions come up about the relationship between strings and the Unicode and ANSI representation

Electrical Inspection PASSED

Thursday, 1 May 2008 10:47 A GMT-05
As many people know, I've been the electrician on our barn remodel project.

The Power Event on the Application Object

Wednesday, 9 April 2008 10:35 A GMT-05
There have been a couple questions about the POWER event we put on the Application object for PocketBuilder 2.5.

Sneak Peek - native gradient colors in PocketBuilder 2.5.1

Thursday, 13 March 2008 12:44 P GMT-05
Gradient colors for windows, UOs, and picture buttons in PocketBuilder 2.5.1 Simple enhancement to the properties for good-old background colors.

PocketBuilder 2.5.0 EBF #2 Available

Tuesday, 4 March 2008 8:28 A GMT-05
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.

Barn Razing (not Raising)

Thursday, 21 February 2008 10:57 A GMT-05
You've heard of "barn raising" - well, we have been RAZING our barn - one board at a time.

PocketBuilder 2.5.0 EBF#1 Available

Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:18 A GMT-05
The first EBF for PocketBuilder 2.5.0 is now available.

Windows Mobile 7

Monday, 7 January 2008 9:31 A GMT-05
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

Storage Cards and DLLs don't mix

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:29 P GMT-05
I've been watching an interesting internal email thread about storage card issues in both the WM-5 emulator and actual devices.Executive Summary:  Don't put any EXE or DLLs or PKDs on the storage card.We (the PocketBuilder crew) hav

PocketBuilder 2.5 Features

Monday, 12 November 2007 3:29 P GMT-05
I've been gabbing about feature 'foo' and capability 'bar' in PocketBuilder 2.5 for some time now.  However, we've never listed out what is coming (and for FREE) in the rapidly approaching update...  The feature list

PocketBuilder 2.5 Bitwise Functions

Tuesday, 16 October 2007 4:30 P GMT-05
PocketBuilder 2.5 has copied and made "native" the "bitwise" functions from PFC.  Combined with the already resident PocketBuilder capability to both enter and display hex values, this makes MY life a bit easier (and anybody

Replacement for a USELESS PocketPC Common File Dialog box

Friday, 12 October 2007 2:44 P GMT-05
Why didn't I see this before...Everybody knows how totally useless the Microsoft supplied "common file dialog box" on PocketPC and SmartPhone is (soooo many restrictions).Poking around I found a replacement library that removes those re

Low Life - memory fragmentation and process slots...

Monday, 8 October 2007 9:10 A GMT-05
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 - "I have a 128MByte device - what do you mean I'm out of memory??"http://blogs.m

New application object event - "Power"

Friday, 17 August 2007 2:49 P GMT-05
We are just finishing up an event on the application object which is fired by various runtime POWER style events.  Henc, your application can centralize the handling for requests and notifications like:Hibernate (a nice name for "low on mem

07/07/07 and we picked up a Wii

Monday, 9 July 2007 1:04 P GMT-05
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 "have any Wii's in stock" - and the teenager behind the counter said "YUP - one left".Soo

PocketBuilder 2.1 Now Available

Thursday, 28 June 2007 10:00 A GMT-05
The 2.1 update contains: Windows Mobile 5 and 6 supportMicrosoft Vista supportNative interop with the new ARM based emulators Full SQL Anywhere 10 and UltraLite 10 support (but NOT UltraLite-MobiLink-10 - but soon)updated documentationALL t

SQL Anywhere-10 and Unicode

Friday, 22 June 2007 1:21 P GMT-05
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