Where is powertimes.com?
There have been no new issues published in quite some time and due to our professional obligations (and our private life) it seems unlikely that there will be other issues in the future. Therefore we decided to save the cost for an own site for PowerTimes and integrate it with www.raksoft.ch - the site of the creator and owner of PowerTimes.
We keep this page online so that interested people can download past issues. And we may even add some content over time.
We would like to thank all our readers, subscribers, advertisers and sponsors for their support and interest over the years. But above all, we would like to thank our authors for their work. Without them, there would not have been a single issue! THANK YOU! It has been an exciting adventure!
Our slogan, coined by our long time author and friend Boris Gasin:
The PowerTimes publishers:
Rolf André Klaedtke and Mark Lansing
January 5, 2007
Downloads
These issues are available to download for free, but please be aware that some of the older ones may contain information that is not up-to-date anymore. Click on the description to download or open the associated ZIP-File.
Authors
Click on the name of the author to see his/her bio. Note that most of the bios are not up to date and some are completely missing.
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| Aeschbach Jean |
| Author Unknown |
| Bala Raghuram |
| Bango Rey |
| Benfield Steve |
| Bischofberger A. |
| Bonsignour Olivier |
| Boudreau Chuck |
| Brooks Mark |
| Brown III Millard F. |
Raghuram Bala
Please note: the bio may be out of date, as it was entered at the time of publication of the article written by the author, which could be several years ago!
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At the time of writing Raghuram Bala was a Senior Software Engineer in New York. He's a PowerBuilder CPD Professional and holds a Masters degree in Computer Science. He has a strong background in enterprise-wide client-server architectures, and develops software using C++, Delphi and PowerBuilder. His technical interests are in the areas of OO Programming and Design, GUIs, Database Management, and Distributed Computing. |
List of articles by this author
| Vol/Issue | Title | Topic (Category) | Description | Published |
| 3/1 | Distributed Computing on the Internet using PowerBuilder | PowerBuilder, Internet (PowerBuilder - General) | In this article, Raghuram introduces the concepts of n-Tier Client/Server development, distributed computing on the Internet with PowerBuilder and some middleware products. | 3/1996 |
| 2/5 | An Evaluation of PowerBuilder Frameworks | PowerBuilder framework evaluation (Product review/presentation) | The article introduces the concept of a framework and compares the major ones on the market for PowerBuilder. | 10/1995 |
PowerTimes was first published in October 1994 as the newsletter of the Swiss PowerBuilder User Group by Rolf André Klaedtke. Later, Mark Lansing joined Rolf André and it became an international journal for Client/Server and Internet / Intranet development, focusing on PowerBuilder, Power++ and PowerJ from Sybase. Not only did we cover these tools, but PowerTimes also provided developers with other vital information to get their job done. For example Use Case Analysis and UML, GUI design, management issues and useful third party tools.
Along the way we found many new friends and learned a lot. But PowerTimes had become a lot of work, too. The administration of subscriptions, the website, finding articles... all this grew into a lot more than just a small side-job. Over time it became more and more difficult to receive good quality articles because many of our long-time authors either ran out of topics or simply needed a break.
In 1997 and 1998 we already thought about stopping to publish PowerTimes, but the huge wave of support convinced us to continue. However, to cut down the administration work and to increase our potential reader (and author) base as well as the number of companies potentially interested in advertising in PowerTimes, we had decided to publish PowerTimes for free and to open it for other tools and technologies instead of concentrating on the Sybase toolset.
The last issue of PowerTimes was published in March/April 2003.