From the official announcement:

A video featuring an intrepid corporate reporter and her real-time hunt for her on-the-move CEO was the winner of the Sybase “How We Did It” Video Challenge.

“Finding Jono,” created by Anne Walker of St George Bank, Treasury & Valorem Systems Australia, follows Walker from Valorem Systems headquarters to the local mall and ultimately the mall parking garage in her quest to find CEO Jon Tinberg. She is able to track his movements thanks to a company system featuring such Sybase solutions as ASE, PowerBuilder, PocketBuilder and MobiLink synchronization technology.

Attendees of TechWave 2008 selected “Finding Jono” as the winner of the challenge after viewing it and other video submissions over the course of the conference week and voting via text message. Walker won the top prize of $5,000 for the submission.

Second-place winner in the contest was “Desktop Widget,” produced by Team Sybase’s Bruce Armstrong. The second-place ranking earned Armstrong a Flip Mino compact video camera.

Contest voters rated the videos based on originality, creativity and how well the video showcased the company’s innovative use of Sybase software to solve a real-world challenge.

Sybase extends its congratulations to the winners.

Go to Sybase TechWave 2008 Flickr group

Jason L. Froebe, TeamSybase, ISUG Board Member, and MyDatabases magazine publisher, demonstrates the Tim Tam Slam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_tam_slam

YMCA

Living on a Prayer

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (part 1)

The Lion Sleeps Tonight (part 2)

Love Shack

??? and Christine Weber

Mack the Knife

Thunder Road

Eric Van Patten and Millard F. Brown III

Copacabana

Nina Hunter

Material Girl

(left to right) Christine Weber, Katherine Soong, and Nina Hunter. A surprise appearance by Phil Bowermaster!

Come Together

Phil Bowermaster

Dear ISUG Member,

ISUG is pleased to announce that the special TechWave issue of the ISUG Technical Journal is now available.  Green and Gold members can access the issue online at http://my.isug.com/p/do/sd/sid=1308&type=0 (Gold members will also receive the printed copy within the next 2-4 weeks.)

Basic and Associate Members can see an abstract of the issue, containing the first page of each article at http://my.isug.com/p/do/sd/sid=1311&type=0 — if you like what you see and want to read more, simply upgrade your membership today and you can read the full online version!

Plus!  Green and Gold members can now also view the Journal using the iViewer technology from PCS. Simply goto www.isug.com/iViewer (login using your my.isug.com account if requested) and you’ll be on your way!

Regards,

Bryan Enochs
President, ISUG

If you’re not a member of ISUG, please join today or at Sybase’s TechWave, in Las Vegas, to gain access to the ISUG Technical Journal

International Sybase User Group

Jeff hits the nail on the head.  You have a voice with the ISUG enhancements process. Use it.  And yes, you have to be paid member to vote. Sorry, but we are a non-profit and your membership fees keep us running!  You can vote as a Basic Member – you do not need to join at the higher membership levels (but you should so you can read all the wonderful articles Jeff writes for us).  The more votes, the easier it is for engineering to justify spending staff resources on it when they go to management.  Encourage all of your peers to join and vote as well.  If you work for a business with several Sybase users, convince your boss to pay for a corporate membership and get all your colleagues to vote as well.

Regards,

Mike Harrold
Executive Director

and

Having an “internal enhancement” (aka a CR) doesn’t mean it gets implemented.  It means there’s a CR for it.  It might be a great idea, but without backing (and a user request + an engineer doesn’t mean it has backing; look how long it took for UDFs, mathematical functions, etc.) it doesn’t get allocated any development resources.  Without development resources, it doesn’t get implemented.

Bottom line, a CR doesn’t mean it’s a “planned” feature.

Regards,

Mike Harrold
Executive Director
International Sybase User Group

I would recommend voting for the ISUG enhancements (this week).  I and several other ISUG Board members will be going through the ISUG enhancements this weekend to present a subset to Sybase product management at TechWave next month.

I haven’t seen many ISUG enhancements being requested lately or voted upon for that matter.  The higher the votes for a particular enhancement, the more likely Sybase will pick it up.

So please, everyone go vote on the ISUG enhancements!

From The Sybase “How We Did It” Video Challenge:

Prizes

• First Prize: $5,000
• Second Prize: Flip Mino compact video camera ($180 value)
• Third Prize: Flip Ultra compact video camera ($150 value)

Contest Rules

• Please submit only your own original content
• Any video content or comments will be approved by Sybase prior to being posted to the site
• Sybase
  employees and contractors and members of their immediate families are
  not eligible to participate in the contest. Sybase reserves the right
  to terminate the contest at our discretion
• You must accept the terms & conditions of the contest
• Non-English entries are welcome but need to be subtitled
• You must be at least 18 years of age to participate

Submission Requirements & Judging Criteria

• Deadline for submissions is on July 31, 2008
• Video must be less than three minutes in length with a file size of no more than 50MB
• Please include a “credits” section at the end of your video with your name and contact information
• Include a mention of the Sybase, Sybase iAnywhere or Sybase 365 product used in your solution
• Online viewers and TechWave
  attendees will rate the videos throughout the contest. A panel of
  judges will select finalists from the top online rated videos, based on
  the following criteria:
  • Originality
  • Creativity
  • Clarity of message showing how you succeeded using Sybase software
• The winner will be chosen at TechWave by popular vote via SMS
• To enter your video, follow the Submission Guidelines section below

Submission Guidelines

• Videos can be submitted online after agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, or by sending a DVD to Sybase Inc.

  Video Contest

  One Sybase Dr., A2014B

  Dublin, CA 94568

• Before uploading please fill out the entry form and create a zip file containing the video and the entry form. Upload this zip file to submit your entry
• You must agree to the contest Terms & Conditions before you can upload your video

Review the terms and conditions and upload your video.

So, get out there and create your video because if you don’t, you won’t win $5,000 from Sybase!  TeamSybase and ISUG members are eligible!

Dear ISUG Member,

Don’t forget that June 30th is the last date to vote for the annual ISUG
Technical Journal Awards that will be presented at TechWave in Las
Vegas:

http://my.isug.com/p/su/rd/sid=31

Also, June 30th is the last day to renew your membership at the current pricing if you are an individual member:

http://my.isug.com/register.php?renew=1

Don’t forget to select your local or regional user group when you renew!

Regards,

Mike Harrold
Executive Director
International Sybase User Group
Email: Mike.Harrold@isug.com
Support your local Sybase Community
Join today at http://my.isug.com/join

Wouldn’t you want to be like Rob Verschoor and win an ISUG Technical Journal Award?  Did you know anyone can write an article for the International Sybase Users’ Group Technical Journal?  Do you think you can take his next award from him?  Do you have what it takes?!? 

Submit your article TODAY!

So much has changed in four years!  I see so many things that the presentation doesn’t address..  I/O schedulers for instance aren’t even touched upon, nor is virtual memory management to any degree.

I did a number of TechWave presentations over the years that I’ve misplaced.  I know of at least one ASE on Linux that isn’t in the archives.  No idea where that one went to…  I feel old

21200: Understanding RepAgent to Replication Server Communication by Creating Your Very Own RepAgent

21201: Running Sybase ASE in a Virtual Environment

Dear Jason,

Thank you for your Sybase TechWave 2008 abstract submission. There were a
tremendous number of excellent presentation ideas, and it was extremely
difficult to decide among the submissions.

We greatly appreciate the effort you made to develop your presentation and
to submit the application, but we are unable to include your suggested
session(s) in the agenda at this time. We encourage you to submit an entry
again next year.

The TechWave registration site is now live. Please visit the site at
http://www.sybase.com/techwave/registrationinfo by June 29th, to register
and to receive the early bird discount $1,295.00 rate.

We look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas this August. If you have any
questions, please contact Michele Shannon at (781) 251-7705 or at
SybaseSpeakers@experient-inc.com.

Sincerely,

Michele Shannon
Sybase TechWave Speaker Manager

SPECIAL PLENARY SESSION — Advancing the Boundaries of Development: How IT developers will face the future.
Tuesday, 1-2:15 p.m. PDT. | View the recorded webcast

Using the PowerBuilder Application Server Plugin
Wednesday, 1 – 2 p.m. PDT. Speaker: Evan Ireland | View the recorded webcast

Using .NET Classes in PowerBuilder
Wednesday, 2:15 – 3:45 p.m. Speaker: Xue-song Wu | View the recorded webcast

Best Practices of PowerBuilder 11.0 WinForm/Smart Client Application Development
Wednesday, 4 – 5:30 p.m. Speaker: Harry Zhang | View the recorded webcast

The DataWindow in PowerBuilder WebForm Targets
Thursday, 1 – 2 p.m. Speaker: Frederick Koh | View the recorded webcast

PowerBuilder: Service Creation
Thursday, 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. Speaker: Sheila Wood | View the recorded webcast

Did you know that you can build .NET applications easily with PowerBuilder? I did, but I didn’t realize that it was very very easy! Say good bye to C# and VB.net for any database application, because PowerBuilder is back and BETTER than anything that Microsoft has to offer!

Most importantly, the video of the key note, Future Development Will Rely on Current Core Technologies, should be out in the next few days. I’ll post the link to it…. it ultimately was the final motivator to make me pick up PowerBuilder 11. Thanks to Jason Fentor for dragging me to the keynote!

UPDATE:   Future Development Will Rely on Current Core Technologies video is here!  When you open the video click down to “PowerBuilder 11: Accelerate your development”

It took me 10 minutes from knowing absolutely no PowerBuilder to building a working client/server .NET application connecting three wildly different databases (Sybase ASE, MySQL and PostgreSQL) and retrieving/updating data to them! TEN MINUTES! I expected an hour or two but ten minutes… I’m just completely floored!

Sorry, I’m not usually this impressed and try to take everything with a grain of salt, but… Sybase, with all your faults, dang! You did good!

For comparison: The same application took me 30 minutes to write in Perl, which I’m pretty good at.