I have tried browser based IDEs and while the idea is cool I am still not convinced – though I am thoroughly intrigued.
Here is the latest one I have seen from none other than Mozilla Labs and is titled “Bespin”: http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/bespin/
The first experience I had with this concept was Eclifox from IBM Alpha works: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/eclifox
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I guess the AS/400’s capabilities are known by both successful businesses and criminals. From a completely pragmatic point of view it makes perfect sense for a criminal business to chose the AS/400 for it’s excellent security. See the “fun read” below:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021609-story01.html
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I have been doing a really bad job of posting my articles to this blog as I do at least one and sometimes two a month. Here is one of my most recent ones that shows how to run WDSC from the Linux Desktop using VirtualBox and a virtual instance of Windows XP Pro.
Article Link: [...]
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This isn’t really “new” news any more as the integration of TN5250J into WDSC has been around for awhile now, but in case you didn’t know it I wanted to post it here.
You can check out the integrated 5250 emulator at the below URL:
http://www.taskforce-it.de/downloads.php
Here is where they announced it on the midrange.com forums: http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200808/msg00159.html
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The guys at CNXCorp.com have produced a video showing a real world RPG browser application they created for one of their customers using the Valence toolset. I must say it is a very attractive looking application that is very respondent (of course that would depend on machine load and whether you had a piece of [...]
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Well, I have now officially venture into the lame blog entry titles. I guess that is the right I retain being I am the owner of the blog, right? :-)
The YiPs (Young i Professionals) have done it again by porting yet another open source PHP application to the IBM i (or more specifically, Brian May [...]
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Ok, so that was a lame attempt at a Spanish statement, but what can you expect from a guy that got a C in that highschool class ;-)
Every once in awhile I run across individuals that are head over heals for Microsoft’s development tools, which aren’t too shabby – now if I could only run [...]
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