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Ian Thain

In his customer facing role, Ian is very involved with the design, production and testing of Enterprise class UnWired Solutions, that have been implemented using Sybase's UnWired tools for Sybase customers around the globe. In addition, Ian is a dedicated technical expert continually working with Sybase's key partners and clients to enhance the capabilities of the UnWired solutions that Sybase can offer to its customers.
As a five-year employee at Sybase, Inc. Ian has experience of working with the ITSG engineering teams, in particular on the EAServer, EP, PowerBuilder, PocketBuilder, PowerJ & OEM products. Amongst his many achievements, and deriving from his commitment to delivering hi-performance solutions, Ian was responsible for the design and implementation of the myPortfolio J2EE demo added to the EAServer distribution. Ian regularly addresses technical audiences all over the world providing profound technical knowledge, and has built up a reputation for being a knowledgeable speaker and his sessions are very well attended. He also writes whitepapers, demos and articles for various Sybase products and published in Journals such as PBDJ from SYS-CON (pbdj.sys-con.com). Ian is also the PocketBuilder Evangelist and works closely with the team in Concord, MA on new features and demonstration for the PocketBuilder product.
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Messaging Is a Simple
Game: Tic-Tac-Toe with
SMS By Ian Thain  SMS or Short Messaging
Service is being used by
millions of mobile phone
users as you read this
article. Here is a
fact...Sybase 365 aids
the delivery of nearly 6
billion messages each
month. Originally limited
to 160 characters and the
small phone keyboard, SMS
l... Feb. 25, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 5,579 | The Secret's Out! By Ian Thain  August is always an
interesting month for me
at Sybase. It's the month
Sybase holds its User
Training & Solutions
Conference and employees
like me get to meet a lot
of customers and partners
face-to-face. This year
was no exception and I
was thrilled to meet the
f... Jan. 6, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 3,439 | The Road Warrior's Mobile
Arsenal Increases By Ian Thain  August is always an
interesting month for me
at Sybase, as it's the
month when Sybase holds
their User Training &
Solutions Conference and
employees like myself get
to meet a lot of
customers and partners
face to face. This year
was no exception - I was
thrilled t... Oct. 1, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 13,872 Replies: 2 | Conference Countdown By Ian Thain  As Sybase's largest
annual technical training
conference, TechWave is
the place to meet the
experts, hear first-hand
what's new, and network
with thousands of
industry professionals
like you. It also
contains a wealth of
in-depth content that
would be hard to find... Aug. 28, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 4,772 | Everything Should Start
with a Model By Ian Thain  In this article I'll
cover how a model-driven
design and development
process can pave the way
to a Service Oriented
Architecture that will in
turn produce accurate
applications that meet
business needs and
increase development team
productivity. Jul. 9, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 9,597 | Model-Driven SOA By Ian Thain  In this article I'll
cover how a model-driven
design and development
process can pave the way
to a Service Oriented
Architecture that will in
turn produce accurate
applications that meet
business needs and
increase development team
productivity. Jul. 3, 2007 05:45 AM Reads: 13,678 | UK PowerBuilder? By Ian Thain Are you interested in
PowerBuilder in the UK?
If so, do you know that
we are launching
PowerBuilder v11.0 this
Thursday? PB11 Kick-Off -
24th May 2007, Emirates
Stadium, London ...more
details ...register May. 24, 2007 09:15 AM Reads: 6,704 Replies: 1 | Send, Receive & Change By Ian Thain  Pick up any book or
article on Service
Oriented Architecture
(SOA) and somewhere in
the text will be the
statement that SOA isn't
about throwing away
existing systems and
redeveloping them, but
integrating them into new
SOA processes, SOA
processes that are
flex... Mar. 22, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 6,030 | Web Application
Development By Ian Thain  In my last few articles I
have tried to show how to
build Business Processes
(BPs) and how to use them
with PowerBuilder. This
article will cover how to
build a simple JSF within
Sybase WorkSpace to call
those BPs. My engineering
colleague Jean Choi wrote
recently a... Feb. 5, 2007 02:00 PM Reads: 5,880 | Federation and
Integration By Ian Thain  In this article I want to
show you how easy it is
to use the new Avaki
perspective and what you
can achieve in the areas
of Data Federation and
Integration. This feature
is newly available within
Sybase WorkSpace v1.6 and
integrated into the
Workbench IDE (Integrate... Jan. 13, 2007 04:45 PM Reads: 5,537 | Business Process Service By Ian Thain  In my last article I
showed you how to expose
a PowerBuilder component
on an EAServer as a Web
Service that could then
be orchestrated into a
Business Process Service
in Unwired Orchestrator
with Sybase WorkSpace. In
this article I want to
attack the big picture
f... Dec. 10, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 5,873 | Using PowerBuilder
Components in Sybase
WorkSpace 1.5 By Ian Thain  This article describes
the synergies between
PowerBuilder and Sybase
WorkSpace for
services-oriented
development and shows how
to use a PowerBuilder
component in Sybase
WorkSpace 1.5. Oct. 29, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 11,716 | MEDC 2005 By Ian Thain  You may be asking
yourself, what's
happening in the
Microsoft Windows Mobile
space? Well, Reed Shilts
(in his trademark
Hawaiian and
PocketBuilder slogan
shirts) and I attended
Microsoft's MEDC 2005,
Mobile & Embedded
Developers Conference,
which took place in L... Jun. 29, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 13,460 | Pocket PowerBuilder v1.5 By Ian Thain It doesn't seem that long
ago that Pocket
PowerBuilder broke onto
the scene; in fact it was
only in August 2003 at
TechWave. Since then the
Pocket PowerBuilder
engineers in Concord, MA,
have churned out Pocket
PowerBuilder 1.0.1 and
are now releasing Pocket
PowerB... Jan. 9, 2004 12:00 PM Reads: 17,020 | Pocket PowerBuilder and
Biometric Security - The
proof is in the
fingerprint By Ian Thain Security is always a hot
topic. How do we make
sure that data can be
accessed only by those
who are allowed to access
it? Working in
conjunction with
encryption, the current
mainstream solution is
passwords, which is not
ideal. Dec. 3, 2003 02:00 PM Reads: 10,442 | Don't Think Big...Think
Small By Ian Thain Over the past 11 years
we've seen PowerBuilder
grow and develop into the
tool it is today.
Originally for
client/server, then
incorporating component
development and RAD
thin-client development,
PowerBuilder is still
the best RAD 4 GL
available Aug. 8, 2003 09:00 AM Reads: 7,948 | Pocket PowerBuilder,
SOAP, and PocketSOAP By Ian Thain What should you do if you
have diverse components
in your enterprise and
need to access them from
your Pocket PowerBuilder
application? I won't
spend too much time on
SOAP and Web services, as
there's lots of reading
you can do on those
subjects, especially if
you have insomnia. Aug. 8, 2003 09:00 AM Reads: 12,223 | Full Power to Vancouver By Ian Thain The mission of Sybase's
PowerJ development team,
based in Waterloo,
Canada, was to produce
the best Java development
IDE for Sybase customers
and the best integrated
IDE for EAServer.. PowerJ
4.0 (Vancouver) will soon
be generally available
and it could be said that... Feb. 1, 2002 12:00 AM Reads: 6,574 |
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