The Young i Professionals (YiPs) have released yet another effort to the community to show the capabilities of the IBM i and it’s support for a variety of technologies.  While I am a part of the YiPs I must admit that I had zero to do for the porting of the application and instead all [...]

What makes the title of this blog entry interesting is that this happened in 2003 – nearly 6 years ago!  Imagine how much farther along the Linux/open source community is by now and how much easier it is to embrace everything!
Here’s the article: http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
Does Microsoft hold your little beating heart and squeeze it whenever [...]

I just got back from good ol’ California (Irvine) and the OCEAN400.org user group.  It is always fun to meet up with others that have the same heart for the AS400+RPG+DB2 that I have.  The topic I spoke on was “SOA for RPG Programmers“.  In the session I walk through some general concepts of SOA [...]

This is the general statement made by Dean in this midrange.com post on the WEB400-L list.  As IBM furthers us down the path of Java it will become a necessity that each AS400 shop adopting IBM’s latest technologies know and understand Java even though IBM states you don’t need to because they supposedly hide all [...]

So it never ceases to absolutely amaze me what is out there in open source land.  For example, a gentleman recently commented on my blog entry concerning RPG Next Gen being a possible replacement for the now more-complicated-to-obtain RDi, and he (Mario) brought about another GUI RPG editor I haven’t even heard of.  The free [...]

I am not sure if I should laugh or cry at the commentary over PETA’s love for fish and their effort to get people to stop “fishing”.  Read for yourself how they are trying to rename fish to be “sea kittens” so people are less apt to hurt them:  http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/index.asp
I don’t know if I could [...]

Jim Buck, president of the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association [whew, what a name], has invited me to speak at their next conference which is happening on April 1 & 2 of 2009.  This will be my first time attending or speaking at this conference but it is sure to be good with some of [...]

Every so often I have customers send me their code so I can help them determine what might be wrong with something.  What sometimes happens is they download the code via FTP and the EBCDIC to ASCII conversion doesn’t take place.  This leaves me with a text file of gobble-d-gook (technical term, I know).  So [...]