I think this might be the first time I have heard of a cool new site from our local news station vs. having known about it for months ahead of time.  Anyways, there is a new search engine out there that is authored by an ex-Google employee that is making some pretty big claims (i.e. [...]

So far this year I have been a busy bee.  One of the two big announcements I have is that Mantatech has an Audio/Video seminar I did titled “WDSC Tidbits Of Goodies”.  I will share the other big (bigger) announcement hopefully before August 1st.  The seminar contains a large collection of the little and big [...]

At COMMON Nashville ProfoundLogic Software introduced their iData product.  David Russo (lead developer of the product) handed me a copy of it and told me to check it out.  iData is basically a really nice looking browser based physical file editor; at least that is what I use it for though it has more capabilities.

I [...]

I oft find myself needing to take a peek at what a value is with different character sets (i.e. UTF-8, ASCII, EBCDIC) and have found Tachyon Software has some excellent tables up for reference.  It is one of those things that took me awhile to find, and being I have found it to be useful [...]

For those of you who are under 30 and are on the IBM i platform, you should make sure to check out the happenings at http://yips.isociety.org.  It is time for us to rise from the ashes and take control of the AS400 platform!  Ok, so that was a little cheesy, but I couldn’t resist.

What is [...]

I have been using Ubuntu as my primary desktop OS and running an instance of WindowsXP within Ubuntu using VirtualBox.  To see a picture of what that looks like check out the following screen capture.
The reason I need WinXP still is because that is the only place WDSC and Outlook run reliably (two of the [...]

Well, I had my first experience with Microsoft Silverlight this evening while writing a YiPs (Young i Professionals) article for COMMON Connect.  I was looking for fodder to use as an example of Microsoft’s excellent marketing for young people and wanted to reference some of the video game ads I had seen in SDTimes (www.sdtimes.com).  [...]

A couple of years ago I switched over to using TN5250j for my 5250 terminal emulation because I wanted a free tool, but also learned to love the tabbed emulators (think  FireFox or IE7).  About 9 months ago I had problems when installing it on new machine because it wouldn’t let me map the Enter [...]

Well, I am finding that SaaS (Software as a Service) is looking more appealing all the time.  I already use a fair amount of this via sites like www.salesforce.com, www.autotask.com, and krengeltech.backupmybusiness.com.
Right now I use BackUpMyBusiness to sync a folder on my HD to a remote server, but I have found their pricing to be [...]