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Archive for February, 2009


   Feb 19

Your IDE in the browser? It’s happening.

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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   Feb 16

AS/400 makes big news! No news is bad news – right? ;-)

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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   Feb 16

Running WDSC From a Linux Desktop

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.
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   Feb 12

TN5250J integrated into WDSC

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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   Feb 06

Nice realworld demo of RPG browser app

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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   Feb 04

YiPs will Moodle your Noodle

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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   Feb 02

Mono y MonoDevelop

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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