Here is an interesting blog posting by Chris Maxcer:
http://blogs.systeminetwork.com/isnblogs/maxedout/2008/09/top_ten_it_problems_we_dont_ha.html
I must say that most of the list, per my experience, is pretty accurate.  Obviously everyone has differing opinions and experiences but I think it is safe to say that a solid OS with an integrated DB and native/integrated ILE environment for a business language (i.e. RPG/CL) [...]

Yep, you read that right. I ventured into uncharted territories writing a training course and loved every minute of it – well, most of it anyway. Writing a training course is like writing 60 articles on the same subject in a fraction of the time.
The training course is titled “XML Web Services for [...]

I work from home and when I have no conferences to speak at or trade shows to attend I “let myself go”.  This might be synonymous to a woman not taking a curling iron with her camping.  For me it means I *try* to grow a beard.  I just came accross this picture again on [...]

Hi all,
There was a recent discussion on RPG400-L (midrange.com) where a new open source file encapsulation utility was introduced (thread link).  I will hopefully be able to put up a dedicated page in the future, but for now a blog entry will have to do.
The authors of this tool are Kurt Anderson and Kurt Braman.   [...]

I run Tomcat on my V5R3 AS400 (aka IBMi as of late) and I have to re-start the thing so seldom that I forget what commands need to be run.  This blog is my way of putting the startup/shutdown practices in a place I will always remember.  Below are the two commands I use to [...]

This morning I was pounding out some RPG code in WDSC and I was getting plain old annoyed that VirtualBox (where I run my XP instance on my Ubuntu Desktop) was taking up a nice chunk of real estate at the top and bottom because of menu and status bars.  I really enjoy having multiple [...]

I must say it is amazing what they can put together these days for a very small price.  A company named HiVision (China I believe) recently released a laptop that you can buy for $98 and it allows you to have a Linux of WinCE OS along with WiFi (and FireFox) along with a bunch [...]