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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.

Messaging Is a Simple Game: Tic-Tac-Toe with SMS
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...
The Secret's Out!
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...
The Road Warrior's Mobile Arsenal Increases
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...
Conference Countdown
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...
Everything Should Start with a Model
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.
Model-Driven SOA
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.
UK PowerBuilder?
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
Send, Receive & Change
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...
Web Application Development
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...
Federation and Integration
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...
Business Process Service
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...
Using PowerBuilder Components in Sybase WorkSpace 1.5
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.
MEDC 2005
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...
Pocket PowerBuilder v1.5
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...
Pocket PowerBuilder and Biometric Security - The proof is in the fingerprint
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.
Don't Think Big...Think Small
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
Pocket PowerBuilder, SOAP, and PocketSOAP
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.
Full Power to Vancouver
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...

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