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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!
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The PowerTimes publishers:
Rolf André Klaedtke and Mark Lansing
January 5, 2007
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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 |
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| Bala Raghuram |
| Bango Rey |
| Benfield Steve |
| Bischofberger A. |
| Bonsignour Olivier |
| Boudreau Chuck |
| Brooks Mark |
| Brown III Millard F. |
Arthur Hefti
Please note: the bio may be out of date, as it was entered at the time of publication of the article written by the author, which could be several years ago!
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Arthur Hefti was the former editor of the now discontinued "Little Helpers" column and has a degree of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and is managing director of CATsoft Development GmbH. He is a well known consultant in the PowerBuilder area and developing in various programming languages. Arthur can be reached by e-mail at arthur@catsoft.ch. |
List of articles by this author
| Vol/Issue | Title | Topic (Category) | Description | Published |
| 7/3 | Little Helpers: Datatect 1.3 from Banner Software | Product review (Product review) | Arthur reviews the product Datatect 1.3 from Banner Software, a utility that generates custom test data. | 12/2000 |
| 7/2 | Little Helpers: TableDancer 1.12 | TableDancer 1.12 review (Product review) | TableDancer is a command line utility that creates HTML documentation from a SQL Anywhere or Adaptive Server Anywhere database. The author is Helmar Gordon Dahmer. | 4/2000 |
| 7/1 | Little Helpers: VMWare 1.0.1 | Product review (Product review) | This time, Arthur reviews VMWare, a software that runs multiple virtual computers on a single PC - at the same time - without partitioning or rebooting. | 3/2000 |
| 6/6 | Little Helpers: VersionEdit by E. Crane Computing | Product review (Little Helper) | In this issue, Arthur reviews the tool "VersionEdit" from E. Crane Computing. | 12/1999 |
| 6/5 | Product review: WizTom Translation Software | Product review (Product review) | Arthur introduces WizTom, a translation tool that allows you to translate text in any application without changing the source code or even having the source code. | 10/1999 |
| 6/5 | Little Helpers: Bubble Help | Product review (Little Helper) | Bubble Help allows you to show a small yellow window with some informational text, known as Bubble Help or Tooltips, as soon as the mouse stays on a PowerBuilder control or object within a Datawindow for a short time. | 10/1999 |
| 6/4 | Little Helpers: EncryptX 3.1 | Little Helpers (Little Helper) | This month, Arthur reviews the tool EncryptX 3.1 from InnerDynamcis Software (www.innerdynamics.com). | 8/1999 |
| 4/1 | Little Helpers: Internet Developer Toolkit for PB 5.0 | Little Helpers (Little Helper) | In this issue, Arthur reviews the Internet Developer Toolkit for PowerBuilder 5.0 from Sybase. | 3/1997 |
| 3/5 | Little Helpers: Wise Installation System 5.0 | Little Helpers (Little Helper) | Arthur reviews the Wise Installation System, a software that makes the distribution of your own applications extremely simple. | 12/1996 |
| 3/4 | Little Helpers: QueryObject from Digitalwave | QueryObject (Little Helper) | Arthur introduces the tool QueryObject from Digital Wave. | 10/1996 |
| 3/3 | Little Helpers: a(Re)Indenter for PowerScript | Product review (Little Helper) | Arthur reviews the a(Re)Indenter for PowerScript from aRenDeeco. The tool was later awarded the "Little Helper of the Year 1996". | 7/1996 |
| 3/2 | PBBrowser | Product review (Product review) | Arthur reviews PBBrowser, a very popular object browser written by Mike Niemann. | 6/1996 |
| 3/1 | The Pros Talk PowerBuilder Reports | Book review (Book review) | Arthur Hefti reviews three books from Pinnacle: "Advanced DataWindow Techniques in PowerBuilder 4.0", "Building Component Applications in PowerBuilder 4.0", and "Object-Oriented Programming in PowerBuilder 4.0" | 3/1996 |
| 3/1 | Force a DropDown DataWindow to drop down | How to force a PowerBuilder DDDW to drop down (PowerBuilder - General) | The article explains how to force a PowerBuilder DropDown DataWindow to drop down. | 3/1996 |
| 2/6 | What is the length of a string in PBUs ? | Checking string length in PowerBuilder Units (PowerBuilder - General) | In this article, Arthur shows how to determine the length of a string in PBUs (PowerBuilder Units). | 12/1995 |
| 2/6 | How to check for the existence of a diskette in disk drive | Windows function SetErrorMode (PowerBuilder - General) | Technical tip that shows how to check for the existence of a diskette in the disk drive, using the Windows function SetErrorMode. | 12/1995 |
| 2/4 | How to change a Grid DataWindow into a Tabular DW | Changing type of a Datawindow in PowerBuilder (PowerBuilder - General) | Short tip that shows how to change the type of a datawindow (from Grid to Tabular) | 7/1995 |
| 2/2 | First experiences with... PowerQuiz Advanced Concepts 1.1 | PowerBuilder add-on product review (Product review/presentation) | Arthur reviews PowerQuiz Advanced Concepts 1.1 | 3/1995 |
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.