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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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Mark your calendars for the upcoming RPGWorld conference which is going to be held in Chicago this year. Works great for me because then I can either drive or fly (probably fly) because it is so close. RPGWorld will be at a new venue that looks to be nicely equipped for doing technical sessions. You [...]
Read the rest of this entry »This post is based on a question I asked in a long running thread on LinkedIn surrounding this article.
Question for the group: How much should an IT team plan for portability of an application and DB? I bring this up based on a comment in one of the PDFs which is
“A portability issue often overlooked [...]
Over on LinkedIn.com Nathan Andelin just got done posting the following which I thought was worth repeating. These days we suffer from technology diarrhea and it is refreshing to see somebody making use of RPG on a Power system to provide awesome performance with very little technology overhead.
Can I turn the original question around and ask What’s [...]
Jim Oberholtzer of Agile Technology Architects, LLC has leaked some information to the Midrange.com lists about what is going on behind their walls as it relates to IBMi in the cloud. This is some of the stuff I have been alluding to in my vague “IBM i in the cloud” posts in the past 6 [...]
Read the rest of this entry »In case you haven’t taken my recommendation to start following Steve Will’s blog I thought I would point you there again based on some recent comments he made.
His latest blog posting talks about SaaS and related topics, but the thing that is most intriguing to me is the mention of doing development on an IBM [...]