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Archive for November, 2008


   Nov 23

GMail (Google Mail) – Mute a conversation

Over the years I have had email accounts at a variety of email providers including HotMail, Yahoo, OneBox, various ISP’s, AOI, etc.  All of them have their good points and bad points.  The other day my fellow RPG coder and midrange.com list subscriber was listening to me complain about constantly having to read threads I [...]

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   Nov 17

iGoogle Tabs – Google you did wrong…

 Google introduced a new feature of putting the iGoogle home page tabs on the left of the page where they take up a whole bunch of space.
To fix the issue simply make this your home page or go to this URL and things will be back to normal.
http://www.google.ca/ig?hl=en
I guess the Canadians are the ones they [...]

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   Nov 12

Machine to Machine Source Movement

The project I am consulting on right now has me building multiple iterations of code on my local AS400, testing them locally and then publishing them to a remote AS400 via VPN.  Well, needless to say this has become a crazy process to put the entire project into a*SAVF and then FTP that to the [...]

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   Nov 09

Split an XML string into array elements

I am working on a project where there are in-the-field workers with hand-held devices that need to make comments about the work they are doing and have it stored on the host server (AS400). The comments are communicated to the AS400 via XML Web Services using RPG-XML Suite (www.rpg-xml.com) and one of the small [...]

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