Displaced Guy » PowerBuilder, .NET, Adsense & Blogging for Cash Search PowerBuilder 15 – PowerBuilder User Conference 2014 in Charlotte NC Tweet PowerBuilder 15 a genuine SAP product until at least 2022 SAP is committed to releasing PowerBuilder 15 and has started an internal beta program and is moving PowerBuilder 12.5 and PowerBuilder 15 to the SAP downloads area. This information comes from PowerBuilder expert Bruce Armstrong via several blog posts?on the PowerBuilder Developer Center. … View full post PowerBuilder Converting ANSI and Unicode Strings Converting PowerBuilder Strings from ANSI to Unicode due to special characters being converted incorrectly such as the dash when converted to unicode is an invalid character. View full post SAP PowerBuilder 15 in 2014 Tweet Happy New Year PowerBuilder! Who would have guessed that we’d be celebrating news of PowerBuilder 15 Beta Program in 2014? That is a rhetorical question for sure as I don’t think there were many of us that expected it to happen. I personally thought that PowerBuilder 15 was going to be canned, and that … View full post PowerBuilder 15 Beta – SAP Supported Until 2022 Tweet SAP Announces PowerBuilder 15 Beta? Michael REH – SAP Executive Vice President and Head of SAP/BIT, the division in charge of PowerBuilder within SAP – announced the availability of PB 15 Beta! Official press release can be found here. ?SAP made an additional statement implying that they are looking to engage with developers better … View full post Converting Date to and from UTC in PowerBuilder.NET & .NET Framework Tweet Converting from UTC to Local & Local to UTC using .NET Framework Converting dates?from or to UTC in the .NET Framework is pretty simple as the DateTime class has many built in features including many conversion related functions. 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Jan 20 PowerBuilder 15 – PowerBuilder User Conference 2014 in Charlotte NC Categories: Development, Microsoft .NET Framework, PB 12.5 Classic, PB.NET, PowerBuilder, PowerBuilder 15, PowerBuilder Conversions, PowerBuilder Tips or Tricks by DisplacedGuy Tweet PowerBuilder 15 a genuine SAP product until at least 2022 PowerBuilder 15 Beta SAP is committed to releasing PowerBuilder 15 and has started an internal beta program and is moving PowerBuilder 12.5 and PowerBuilder 15 to the SAP downloads area. This information comes from PowerBuilder expert Bruce Armstrong via several blog posts?on the PowerBuilder Developer Center. The fact that PowerBuilder 15 and PowerBuilder 12.5 is beginning to show up on SAP downloads area is proof that SAP is serious about making PowerBuilder an SAP product which typically means at least 8 years of support. Assuming PowerBuilder 15 is launched in 2014, the product would be supported by SAP’s outstanding customer service and quality commitment until the year 2022. I believe this commitment will put a lot of IT Managers at ease due to the significant number of legacy PB systems in use today. PowerBuilder User Conference – March 5, 6 & 7th Mark your calendar because the PowerBuilder User Conference 2014 is now open.?The North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group and Appeon Corporation are proud to present the Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference (CPBC) to be held at the Center City Campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte?at Charlotte on March 5,6,7 2014. Registration for this three day event is $350. However, if you register before February 4 you can receive a $100 discount (that’s more that 25% off)! REGISTER HERE! The event is sponsored by? This post has no tag Leave comment Jan 06 PowerBuilder Converting ANSI and Unicode Strings Categories: Development, PB 12.5 Classic, PB.NET, PowerBuilder, PowerBuilder 15, PowerBuilder Tips or Tricks, Redesign or Migrate, Reference by DisplacedGuy Tweet Why PowerBuilder Changed To Unicode in PowerBuilder 10 Sybase PowerBuilder 10 supports a comprehensive set of features for working with Unicode and building?multi-language, internationalized applications. The multi-language features are implemented at a?fundamental level; the PowerBuilder environment itself is now converted to support Unicode. The?Unicode-enabled underlying system drives Unicode-enabled PowerBuilder applications that are capable of?reading files and databases containing multi-language content and presenting this content to end users in a?culturally appropriate rendering of their language. Here is the full scoop on PowerBuilder and Unicode from Sybase.com. Converting from Unicode to ANSII or vice-versa PowerBuilder 10 uses Unicode (UTF-16 little endian) internally. PowerBuilder is written in C++ and all internal string manipulation is Unicode compliant as of PowerBuilder 10. PowerBuilder versions 7, 8, and 9 used double-byte character sets (DBCS); and PowerBuilder versions 6 and earlier used ASCII. This internal upgrade to Unicode means all PowerBuilder 10 applications are also fully capable of supporting Unicode and therefore multiple languages. PowerBuilder 10 has added PowerScript functions to process Unicode and ANSI/DBCS characters and the sources for the characters, such as Unicode and ANSI/DBCS databases and files. Convert data to ANSI C# Blob lbl_data lbl_data = Blob("PowerBuilder is cool!", EncodingANSI!) ls_data = String(lbl_data, EncodingANSI!) 1234 Blob lbl_data lbl_data = Blob("PowerBuilder is cool!", EncodingANSI!)ls_data = String(lbl_data, EncodingANSI!) Convert data read via file to ANSI C# Blob lbl_data lbl_data = Blob("PowerBuilder is cool!", EncodingANSI!) ls_data = String(lbl_data, EncodingANSI!) 123456 Blob lbl_data lbl_data = Blob("PowerBuilder is cool!", EncodingANSI!)ls_data = String(lbl_data, EncodingANSI!) Blob Type – Blob is a binary data type. A Blob can store binary data, ANSI characters,?or Unicode characters. The String() and Blob() functions support the conversions between the types. The functionality?contained in the String() and Blob() functions obviate the need for the older functions FromANSI() and?ToANSI(), FromUnicode(), and ToUnicode(). These functions are still supported in PowerBuilder?10, but deprecated; users are encouraged to migrate to the String() and Blob() functions. The String() and Blob() functions require an encoding parameter. The encoding parameter is one?of the following: EncodingANSI! Encoding UTF8! EncodingUTF16LE! – UTF-16 Little Endian encoding (PowerBuilder 10 default) EncodingUTF16BE! – UTF-16 Big Endian encoding To convert a Blob to a String use: String ( blob, {Encoding} ) For example: String str str = String(Blb) // Absence of encoding parameter defaults to UTF16LE or String str str = String(Blb, EncodingUTF8!) // Use UTF8 encoding To convert a String to a Blob use: Blob ( string, {Encoding} ) For example: Blob Blb Blb = Blob(“Some Text”) // Absence of encoding parameter defaults to UTF16LE or Blob Blb Blb = Blob(“Some Text”, EncodingUTF8!) // Use UTF8 encoding File Functions in PowerBuilder supporting the encoding argument li_FileNum = FileOpen(“EmployeeU.txt”, TextMode!, Read!,?EncodingUTF16LE!) This post has no tag 1 comment Jan 01 SAP PowerBuilder 15 in 2014 Categories: .NET Framework 4, Development, Microsoft .NET Framework, PB 12.5 Classic, PB.NET, PowerBuilder, PowerBuilder 15 by DisplacedGuy Tweet Happy New Year PowerBuilder! Who would have guessed that we’d be celebrating news of PowerBuilder 15 Beta Program in 2014? That is a rhetorical question for sure as I don’t think there were many of us that expected it to happen. I personally thought that PowerBuilder 15 was going to be canned, and that the next SAP official news would be the silver stake in PowerBuilders’ heart. I was dead wrong, and I’d like to think that the petition started by Bruce Armstrong (the PowerBuilder evangelist hero and savior) influenced management at SAP. If you visit the petition, you’ll see: VICTORY – SAP scheduled announcement about PowerBuilder 15 There were 2,154 signatures as of the time of this writing. The goal was initially set much lower and was increased at least three times due to higher than expected turnout. The official announcement for the PowerBuilder 15 beta program came at a press release at the SAP Tech Ed in Bangalore 2013. Bruce appears to have started a different PowerBuilder 15 petition on change.org which also garnered several hundred signatures. SAP made an official announcement, that PowerBuilder 15 will be released and that a closed beta program has been started. SAP also committed to supporting the PB 15 release for 8 years which is standard for SAP official software (yes PowerBuilder is SAP standard software). The PowerBuilder FaceBook page is still having PowerBuilder 12.5 as the profile picture hopefully we’ll see the new one soon. This post has no tag Leave comment Dec 25 PowerBuilder 15 Beta – SAP Supported Until 2022 Categories: Development, Microsoft .NET Framework, PB 12.5 Classic, PowerBuilder, PowerBuilder 15 by DisplacedGuy Tweet SAP Announces PowerBuilder 15 Beta? Michael REH – SAP Executive Vice President and Head of SAP/BIT, the division in charge of PowerBuilder within SAP – announced the availability of PB 15 Beta! Official press release can be found here. ?SAP made an additional statement implying that they are looking to engage with developers better in the future (thank goodness). ?“We are very excited getting these very important announcements out to the developer community to underline SAP’s commitment to expand our developer engagement and outreach across our technology platforms”. A new closed beta version of PowerBuilder 15 has been released by SAP. You can sign up for the beta program for PowerBuilder 15 here.?The only negative of the beta is that is is a closed meaning only customers of SAP having an “S”-ID can use the beta program. SAP is working on a solution to get us long-time PB developers into the system so that we can be part of the program without needing to buy SAP support. PowerBuilder 15 is now Official SAP Tool – Support Until 2022 SAP had made PowerBuilder 15 an official SAP product and it is listed in the SAP product catalog. This commitment means that we can count on SAP quality, security and a minimum of 8 years support for each product starting with PowerBuilder 15 in 2014. Is it possible that the petition started by Bruce Armstrong influenced SAP? I’d like to believe that it did make a difference I am encouraged by what I’ve heard come from SAP and I take back anything negative I said while impatiently waiting for PB15. Highlights of SAP PowerBuilder 15 Beta The biggest change coming with PB 15 is moving from .NET 4.0 to .NET 4.5, and support for Windows 8. There will be new databases and possibly OS’s supported. This info was taken mostly from Bruce Armstrongs’ blogs. Windows 8 32 and 64 bit support OData,?SQL Server 2012, Oracle 12 .Net 4.5 Dockable Windows In the future SAP is looking at Hana XSE support for PowerScript, and better integration between PB and SAP Hana. Notable About PowerBuilder 15 & Beyond SAP may be looking at going with one IDE (the classic) which makes sense to me, supporting two IDE’s seems like overkill, why change something that works, a nice clean-up is in order but the classic IDE works. SAP is looking to support JavaScript in IDE Support Contracts & Closed Beta – SAP is working to get people S-user accounts so they can access the beta without going through the S-user creation process. Stay tuned for more info… This post has no tag 1 comment Dec 20 Converting Date to and from UTC in PowerBuilder.NET & .NET Framework Categories: .NET Framework 4, Development, Microsoft .NET Framework, PB 12.5 Classic, PB.NET, PowerBuilder, PowerBuilder 15, PowerBuilder Conversions, PowerBuilder Tips or Tricks, Silverlight 4 by DisplacedGuy Tweet Converting from UTC to Local & Local to UTC using .NET Framework Converting dates?from or to UTC in the .NET Framework is pretty simple as the DateTime class has many built in features including many conversion related functions. Notice When you parse a string into a date you will need to be careful in knowing what time zone the date and time string is from but assuming you know what date time you are working with you simply use the SpecifyKind?method of the DateTime class. Example .NET Framework Date Conversion Code ( UTC / Local ) The .NET code for performing the UTC to local and back conversion is listed below. C# <span style="color: #339966;">// Get date for current moment adjusted for local time zone.</span> DateTime utcNow = DateTime.UtcNow; DateTime localNow = DateTime.Now; <span style="color: #339966;">// convert the UTC date to Local</span> newDate = DateTime.SpecifyKind( utcNow, DateTimeKind.Local ); <span style="color: #339966;">// convert the Local time to UTC</span> newDate = DateTime.SpecifyKind( localNow, DateTimeKind.Utc ); 12345678 <span style="color: #339966;">// Get date for current moment adjusted for local time zone.</span>DateTime utcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;DateTime localNow = DateTime.Now; <span style="color: #339966;">// convert the UTC date to Local</span>newDate = DateTime.SpecifyKind( utcNow, DateTimeKind.Local );<span style="color: #339966;">// convert the Local time to UTC</span>newDate = DateTime.SpecifyKind( localNow, DateTimeKind.Utc ); This post has no tag 2 comments Dec 20 Adsense High RPM Equates to High Income Producing Potential Categories: Adsense, Adsense Actuals, Blogging for Cash, Internet Marketing, Making Money, MMO, Most Popular, Top 10 All Time by DisplacedGuy Tweet High AdSense RPM sites equate to higher income producing potential It is no secret that AdSense RPM is my favorite AdSense statistic other than “Income”. ?Generally speaking, the Adsense Actuals RPM higher the RPM the more money making potential a web page has. We want to make money as fast as possible while minimizing expenses as much as possible. Making money with AdSense is pretty fun, isn’t it? RPM is my?gold standard in estimating a specific web site’s ability to generate the most income per page viewed. RPM is?also known as “revenue per mile” or revenue per 1,000 pages. Maximize AdSense profit margin We want to maximize our profit margin. If we have a site with an RPM of $10.00 than we are making exactly one penny per page viewed. One thousand pages divided by ten dollars is one cent. Minimize hosting costs associated with serving pages We need to minimize costs incurred in creating content, hosting content and other business related costs. The concept is simple except that our content creation cost is a one-time expense. So won’t it be nice to get paid for your content over, and over, and over again? The example given above is an average across sites. So the data is anonymous. This prevents me from violating the AdSense terms of service.?Wouldn’t it be terrible if your account was suspended once you were pulling in some serious cash? I admit to accidentally violating the TOS in my first years blogging for cash. Google either turned a blind eye, didn’t see it, or didn’t care because my earnings were literally pennies. Use RPM only if it is stable from day-to-day If you have good traffic than your RPM will be stable, the law of large numbers helps to stabilize the number. Sporadic page views will cause RPM to jump all over the place making it less reliable. If your RPM is doubling one day and then dropping to zero the next day then you may not want to invest heavily based on RPM until it stabilizes. Using RPM is no guarantee for huge profits, but if you can get more traffic to a high RPM site or page then you will make the MOST money per visitor. Improve content quality to squeeze every last drop of RPM possible If you strive for highest RPM, you will probably be improving just about every other AdSense statistic. RPM is made up of many statistics, including cost per click (CPC), impressions and click through rate (CTR). There are many quality statistics that are a factor in creating higher RPM pages. You can read about the AdSense quality statistics in some of my earlier articles. If you need help building traffic to your web site you should see Add 1,000 Backlinks in A Day. So remember that the highest RPM site is your website with the?highest potential for producing easy revenue. Classifying sites into quality bands using your RPM If you have a website where the RPM runs higher than ten dollars on a consistent basis than you have got yourself a REALLY good site to make money with. There are other factors to be considered such as potential traffic and competition but if your RPM is that high you have broken into the ranks of successful AdSense entrepreneurs. Other ideas… You could experiment with content and/or advertisement placement in an effort to increase click through rates (CTR), cost per click (CPC) and traffic volume. The combination of high CTR and CPC will automatically cause RPM to increase as it is a product of all three. Remember when AdSense was new and it seemed overwhelming? Increase traffic – the AdSense RPM multiplier Generally speaking if you add traffic to high RPM sites you will increase revenue faster than adding traffic to low RPM sites. ?If you average fifty cents a click (CPC) and your site has 5,000 page views which landed 5 clicks your click through rate is one click for every 1,000 pages or .1 %, very dismal. Computing RPM is simple in this example, you are making 50 cents for every 1,000 page views (RPM) because remember mile is analogous to one thousand page views. I’m not sure the history on why ‘Revenue per Mile” is used to mean revenue per thousand pages but the airlines typically measure success in RPM and cost per mile. Adsense Actuals for a few sample websites I haven’t posted an Adsense Actual posting in a while. ?I’m sorry about that I must have too many things going on and just didn’t get it done. At minimum I’m gong to post the chart “from the beginning” until now. ?It shows how slow money making has gone for me, yet one can be thankful that it has done as much as it did. I am happy with any growth as long as it is consistent growth. Note that the Page RPM has gone up consistently over the last few years to around $5 or $6 consistently across all sites being monitored. The reason Page RPM shown below is only $3.76 is the average from the beginning of time until now. Fake clicks on new accounts Page RPM can sometimes be elevated during the first year of a site as friends, curious people, and nosy neighbors take interest in what you are working on you tend to pick up sympathy clicks, thankfully not enough to warrant Google blocking my account. Getting false clicks is the wrong way to go about business. It will burn you in the long-run so do everything possible to prevent it.?I have a suspicion that Google expects a certain level of false clicks at first, they are a cost of doing this kind of business. Remember that the advertiser is your customer too. You want your advertiser to get the maximum benefit from their advertising dollars. Advertisers can choose to place ads on your site if they have good sales results from ad-clicks. Treat your customer like you would a customer of any other business. That is common sense though right? Sample Report – This report has a longer time-frame and skews the RPM lower because my RPM in the beginning was very low. This same report run for the last three months has an average RPM of almost double the $3.76 below. Setting goals I’ve found certain types of sites that work and am working on creating more of them. I am still playing the numbers game, the first goal was 1 cent a day, my second goal was ten cents a day consistently, my third goal was a dollar a day consistently, now my next goal is ten dollars a day, and then one hundred, and one thousand so I figure I’ve got at least another three to four years left. ?Will I stop at $1,000 a day? Probably not if I know myself but I would work at diversification, in fact I should be thinking of it now. Ideally I’d like to have something to hand down to my family, something with residual income generating ability. Reflecting on past performance I can say without a doubt in my mind that my biggest mistake was that I am not taking enough time to create quality content. Final thoughts I will say that creating content is the single most difficult part of making money online. If you put a half-effort into your content you will get half the visitors I can look at every article I’ve written and most of the ones in the top ten for traffic are content that I spent at least a full day creating. If you want to spin some easy fluff content you can’t expect much, if you work hard you are usually rewarded and I guess that is a good note to end on. Revenue Per Mile (RPM) as taken from Google AdSense Help: Revenue per thousand impressions (RPM) Revenue per 1000 impressions (RPM) represents the estimated earnings you’d accrue for every 1000 impressions you receive. RPM doesn’t represent how much you have actually earned; rather, it’s calculated by dividing your estimated earnings by the number of page views, impressions, or queries you received, then multiplying by 1000. Formula: RPM = (Estimated earnings / Number of page views) * 1000 For example: If you earned an estimated $0.15 from 25 page views, then your page RPM would equal ($0.15 / 25) * 1000, or $6.00. If you earned an estimated $180 from 45,000 ad impressions, your ad RPM would equal ($180 / 45,000) * 1000, or $4.00. RPM is a commonly used number in advertising programs, and you may find it helpful for comparing revenue across different channels. This post has no tag Leave comment Older posts « Register | Login PowerBuilder 12.5 Training Over 100 PowerBuilder Training Videos, Tutorials, Guides, Sample Apps & Articles for PowerBuilder 12.5 X-REF.US Project X-REF.US Help launch a coding cross reference site. Need partners, no time. 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