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Wednesday, 20 September 2006
Sea Bass have presented at various user conferences and have had several articles published. Below is an overview of some of the articles and presentations produced by Sea Bass and the PowerBuilder development standards that we use on structured development projects. For copies of papers please contact us and we would be happy to email these to you.
PowerBuilder 9 book review
The 2 main authors of this book are Bruce Armstrong and Millard F. Brown III. If you are readers of the PBDJ magazine you will probably be familiar with these names. Both have also been involved with previous PowerBuilder book releases, are members of TeamSybase and have presented at user conferences around the world. Other contributing authors include a list of well known PowerBuilder experts such as Dave Fish, Bill Green, John Olsen, Roy Kiesler et al.
Book Overview
There are numerous books now available on PowerBuilder – this one does not aim to compete with these but to plug the gap in contents covered.  PowerBuilder 9 – Advanced  Client/Server Development zeroes in on some of the new features in this version including PBNI (native interface), XML datawindows, reworking of the source control interface, improved IDE and automated application builds using OrcaScript.  Other subjects covered include PFC, an in-depth look at database connectivity, advanced coding and DW techniques, 3rd party tools and OLE.
Internet-based labour scheduling solution
Contact us to find out how met the challenge and produced a highly performant, multi-location system with a low cost of ownership and revolutionised labour scheduling in the hospitality industry.
A generic approach to form generation and data entry
This paper explains a design approach used to provide generic form generation to support a clinical trial conducted by the Medical Research Council in the Gambia. The approach enables data management staff at the MRC to make significant changes to the system without needing to involve technical staff from Sea Bass.
Open Systems development using EAServer and ASA
This paper , presented at STUN, covers the use of open systems development incorporating EAServer and ASA. It gives an overview of the technical architecture clearly demonstrating the use of the building blocks of web services. The effectiveness of open tools such as XML is explored in the context of a highly successful system used as a case study.
Introduction to EAServer
A paper presented at STUN covering the application server architecture and a case study using EAServer
PowerBuilder Development Standards
Development standards for PowerBuilder 5.x, 6.x and 7.x  
Earlier papers  
Now I've Built My Web-Enabled App - What Do I Do With It?
DevelopIT (PBUG conference) March 2000
Writing Multi-Threaded Client Applications with PowerBuilder 6.0
PBulletin (The PowerBuilder User Group Newsletter) October 1998
A Better Spud
PBulletin (The PowerBuilder User Group Newsletter) October 1998 
Getting started with Distributed PowerBuilder and Web PB
PowerTutorPlus (PBUG conference) June 1998
Using PFC services
PowerTutorPlus (PBUG conference) June 1998
Extending the PFC
PowerTutorPlus (PBUG conference) June 1998, ISUG conference (Hamburg) October 1998

Two thousand shops are using the EpR Gift Aid system , developed for Eproductive by Sea Bass. With other milestones including £5 million Gift Aid claimable on the sales of donated goods between them and over half a million donor names and addresses collected by the charities using the system. To see the full story see click here