Just got done ready an article in SDTimes.com that talks of how SQL isn’t necessarily the end-all for all programmatical DB access needs.  I find this intriguing because of the “native I/O” battles we seem to face from people stating it is “old” and should be abandoned when in reality native I/O is a priceless technology that can serve [...]

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 [...]

Here is a YouTube channel that an IBM’er recently made me aware of.  Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/lugoffice

Read up on my thoughts about RPG and Community which includes a new, and small, open source application I put together called “HTML 2 PDF for i” (HTML2PDF4i).
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/webexclusive/32493p1.aspx

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 [...]

It tis the season for the ISV group to meet for the annual meeting in Rochester to discuss what we want to see in upcoming releases of RPG/DB2/IBMi based on our customers needs.
I can’t tell you what is currently on IBM’s list, nor what I have already submitted, nor what I plan on submitting, but [...]

I recently wrote an article titled “What RPG Developers Lack” which can be viewed at the following URL: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/enewsletterexclusive/32076p1.aspx
If you have read it and have opinions about it, please post them here.  BTW, if you feel I am off base on anything please note that also.  I did have one reader challenge me on CGIDEV2 [...]

Scott Klement had a good article in his newsletter today: http://systeminetwork.com/article/why-not-video-documentation
I am curious to know if the RPG community thinks video tutorials are a good thing?  I personally think video tutorials are an excellent way to convey some scenarios that would have otherwise taken many cumbersome textual paragraphs to describe.  I have also found that [...]

Hi all!  Tami Deedrick just informed me of my lastest article being published in IBMSystemsMag.com’s new digital approach.  You can find the article here.
Let me know your thoughts!
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The longer I work with RPG+DB2+OS400 and compare it to other stacks, the more I love it for the integrated aspects.  There are a number of IBM’ers that recognize the benefit of integrated, but I think those are relatively few compared to those that have jumped on the “Java is integrated” band wagon (which Java [...]