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Archive for August, 2009


   Aug 26

EGL loves hills

 Chris Maxcer has written an article in the recent edition of System iNEWS where he talks about the viability of EGL in today’s IBM i RPG shops.  I had the privilege of commenting on various points throughout the article.  Take a peek at the article at the below URL…
http://systeminetwork.com/article/does-even-free-egl-face-uphill-i-climb
I actually wouldn’t mind doing a [...]

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   Aug 25

COMMON Webcast: SOA for RPG Programmers

[better late than never]
On August 18th I gave a webcast about “SOA for RPG Programmers”.  It was open to both all people even if you don’t have a COMMON membership (thanks Ian Cartwright for arranging this).  You can get all of the information at the following link:
http://www.common.org/webcasts/09archivedwebcasts.html
The intent of this presentation is to give RPG [...]

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   Aug 18

Blogs worth subscribing to…

I subscribe to a lot of different blogs.  Some I read often and others I simply meander through every once in a while.  Two blogs that recently caught my eye are “You and i“, who’s authors are Steve Will (Chief IBM i Architect) and Craig Johnson (IBM i Product Manager), and “i Can” who’s author [...]

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   Aug 13

Browser Shots

I was presented with the need to test some browser code I had developed on a variety of platforms and browser versions the other day.  I keep a number of browsers and versions at my finger tips, but certainly not all (I  usually don’t adopt the new versions of Internet Explorer unless I have to).  [...]

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   Aug 06

I graduated from high school!

Here’s a story for your Thursday morning.  So I never actually graduated from high school.  My senior year I decided I was tired of being treated like a kid and decided I would try my hand at college a year early (in Minnesota high school students can do PSEO “Post SEcondary Options” if they want [...]

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