Hey everybody. I will be doing a webcast that dives into SOA for RPG programmers on July 31st (next week Tuesday) that I wanted everyone to know about. System i Network is putting it on and Databorough is sponsoring it. Feel free to attend if you like.
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Here is an article I wrote late last year dealing with web services and shipping (i.e. UPS, USPS, DHL, etc). Look at that crazy picture of me at the top of the article! LOL! I don’t have any hair! BTW, I am slowly going bald. I will try some different [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Here is an article that I wrote this year that I wanted to mention here so that people know about it. It was published through MCPressOnline: Click Here
Happy reading!
Here is another recent article that just got published on SystemiNetwork.com. In it I relate the web service technologies to an RPG environment in an effort to get us RPG’ers up to speed fast on the terminology and concepts. This article requires a paid “VIP” subscription (contact me offline if you would like [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Here is my most recent article for IBM Systems Mag:
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Note that I am venturing into video tutorials as a way to better explain applications like WDSC. Let me know what you think and stay tuned for more!
Minneapolis is a stones throw from my home in Mankato MN (well, about 80 miles) so I was excited to see that System i Developer has chosen it to host their upcoming fall conference (Oct 2 – 4, 2007). Because of the proximity of Minneapolis and Rochester I would guess IBM will be well [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Today I found myself doing byte comparisons of XML files and wasn’t getting the expected results so I wanted an easy way to view the hex contents of the files to see what might be wrong. Sure enough, it had to do with non-printable chars (i.e. carriage return line feeds and such). This [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Here is a cool open source utility I found today based on a post to midrange.com by Buck Calabro (http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200707/msg00067.html). Looks intriguing. Check it out at the below link.
RPGUnit.org