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 [...]

Hope everyone had a great July 4th and raised a cup to our independence.  I had the pleasure of spending time with my family “at the farm” (grandma and grandpa’s house just south of Good Thunder, MN).  I have MANY fond memories of spending time on the farm and the endless adventures that ensued.   [...]

According to TIOBE, which is seemingly thee place to check for programming language popularity, the C language has risen back to the top of the stack of popularity.  This is highly intriguing because to many the C language would not be deemed trendy or efficient like other languages are touted as (i.e. Java, .NET, PHP, [...]

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 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 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 [...]

I have had this JavaGate topic queued in my blog for awhile and thought today would be a good day to submit it.  The project is named App Server 4 RPG (AS4RPG) and is meant to provide mechanisms to “talk” with Java through a data queue layer.  This is nice because Java performs not so [...]

Over the past year I have had the chance to work with Don Denoncourt on some projects and have developed a respect for the man.  He started blogging awhile back and I thought I would point everyone listening here to his blog(http://denoncourt.blogspot.com/).  It sounds like Don will be doing a lot of Grails/Groovy/Java programming on [...]