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The RPG Cafe has officially moved to the developerWorks site.  This is a good thing in my mind because it means the RPG folks get to share some of the same web site infrastructure with the other more popular, though less efficient(grin), [...]

Welp, the writing has been on the wall for this announcement to happen.  There was a leaked Oracle memo that basically says the OpenSolaris OS is going to be put on ice and that Oracle has plans to make Solaris not only a sustainable OS but also a profitable one – the #1 Enterprise server [...]

Sounds like the predictable has finally happened since Oracle purchased SUN and subsequently now owns Java – arguably the most used/pursued programming language in the world.
Oracle has sued Google for how it is using Java on/in it’s Android platform
This isn’t really a surprise because Oracle isn’t as community friendly as SUN was. Guess maybe that [...]

IBMSystemsMag.com just published my latest article titled “Tweaking Open Source TN5250j”.  The open source and free TN5250j emulator is what I use 99% of the time for all of my green screen access to the various IBM i machines I connect to.  This article shows how to make a modification to the TN5250j code base [...]

Just got off a call with a customer of mine in North Carolina who I am coaching on moving forward with RDPi (fka WDSC and RDi).  Over the weekend he installed RDPi on his work machine and it blew up.  We didn’t get into details, but I am guessing it was because he already had [...]

Some of Google’s employees are frustrated by the complicated languages like Java and C++ and question whether they should be used.  They have gotten so frustrated that they have created their own new programming language named “Go”.
I’m telling you, the tides are turning.  The IT industry has spent the last 5 to 10 years chasing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This video says it all: http://screencast.com/t/YmZjNjg0Mz
Moment of frustration coming here…
IS ANYONE ELSE SICK OF IBM PUSSY FOOTING AROUND WITH OUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION TOOLING!?!?!?
Normally when an error like that occurs I would be able to do a DSPJOBLOG and at least get a clue as to where to look next.  I checked the *ADMIN jobs in [...]

It is that time of year again for the SystemiNetwork.com RPG and Beyond Web Conference.  Thanks to Sue from Penton for inviting me to present with the big hitters.  This conference is a nice change of pace for me because I don’t have to travel and can instead present right from my home office.  Heck, [...]