I am excited about a recent article I wrote that was published in IBMSystemsMag.com because it is part of the bigger picture of getting NEW people involved with our beloved OS and also allows the existing IBM i customer to test out new features.  You can find the “Test Drive IBM i For Free” article [...]

The guys at ExtJS <cough> Sencha have done it again.  They are pushing the technology envelope and have produced the first HTML5 framework for mobile devices.  Why is this important?  Well, if you haven’t been following the news, a few weeks (months?) ago Steve Jobs (figure head of Apple) publicly spoke out against Adobe Flash/Flex [...]

Welp, this afternoon wraps up another IBM ISV Advisory Council meeting (occurs annually in May and is my 2nd time in attendance).  It was good to see all of the IBM’ers and creating more relationship with them.  It was also good to make some new friends with the ISV’s that were present – Pascal, you [...]

So this past week I was at COMMON conference.  My favorite thing about COMMON is the networking because most everybody I am wanting to touch base with is there.  Justin Porter, Brian May and myself (YiPs committee) were finally at the same conference all at once for the first time in 2 years!
During the conference [...]

I have been offering open source software on www.MowYourLawn.com for over 8 years now.  I love open source software (oss) and have benefited from it greatly in many ways.  The unfortunate part about oss is that it is hard to find time to dedicate to making it better on a regular basis.  I find myself [...]

The folks at System i Developer have graciously invited me again to speak at their conference.  You can check out their announcement here: http://www.systemideveloper.com/announce2010Spring.html.
You can check out the sessions here: http://www.systemideveloper.com/sessiongrid.html
Among other sessions, I will be speaking on one of my latest passions: RPGUI
On that note, what are everybody’s projections for getting training this year?  [...]

I am always intrigued by how we can keep IBM i shops “in business” by seeing what can be accomplished with RPG. Because of this I have started a new open source project titled “RPGUI” (aka RPG User Interface) and have started an article series with IBMSystemsMag.com to document it. Learn more on the RPGUI page.Note that [...]

I am excited to say the WMCPA users group have invited me back for a second time to their annual conference.  The way I figure it, I must not have not have done too bad at my table manners the first time around.  It is always a fun time working with the likes of Jim [...]

Looks like Bob Cancilla’s blog has been taken out of commission.  You can check it out here: http://i-nsider.blogspot.com.  For those that are new to the discussion you should know that Bob Cancilla was employed by IBM and upon leaving started to make some pointed statements at the future of the IBM i – statements he [...]

I subscribe to a lot of different blogs.  Some I read often and others I simply meander through every once in a while.  Two blogs that recently caught my eye are “You and i“, who’s authors are Steve Will (Chief IBM i Architect) and Craig Johnson (IBM i Product Manager), and “i Can” who’s author [...]