This week I was assisting a customer with installing Tomcat on the System i5 and ran into an issue I thought I would post here to assist others.
After placing a non-IBM version of Tomcat in the IFS, I started up a QShell session, changed directory to the Tomcat bin directory, and executed startup.sh. The [...]

Interesting piece of code Sun is working on. Very cool in concept, but it was VERY CPU intensive on my quad core Intel desktop using latest version of FireFox.  The jist of it is that there is an entire desktop environment written entirely in Javascript without the need for any additional plugins (i.e. Adobe, [...]

Read my lastest article titled “RPG Talks to the Desktop” in the MCPress RPG Developer newsletter.
The basic idea is to allow your RPG programs on the System i5 to talk to the users desktop – essentially offering RPG and desktop integration. What I have offered in this article is a smidgen compared to where [...]

Well, I can now check off one more thing on my list of things to accomplish in this lifetime. I not only got to meet Barbara Morris (on the IBM RPG compiler team) but got to sit down and eat an entire meal with her! Unfortunately I have no proof of this like [...]