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Archive for October, 2009


   Oct 27

What If: IBM i in the cloud

Amazon today announced its latest “cloud computing” initiative for storing relational MySQL databases for you and you only pay for bandwidth and storage – they do all admin work(i.e. apply patches, keep hardware up to date, etc).  This is on top of many other services they provide including ones that allow you to store mass [...]

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   Oct 20

New IBM i open source: Java Gate

I have had this JavaGate topic queued in my blog for awhile and thought today would be a good day to submit it.  The project is named App Server 4 RPG (AS4RPG) and is meant to provide mechanisms to “talk” with Java through a data queue layer.  This is nice because Java performs not so [...]

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   Oct 05

Don Denoncourt blog

Over the past year I have had the chance to work with Don Denoncourt on some projects and have developed a respect for the man.  He started blogging awhile back and I thought I would point everyone listening here to his blog(http://denoncourt.blogspot.com/).  It sounds like Don will be doing a lot of Grails/Groovy/Java programming on [...]

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   Oct 01

Java Jumpstart for RPG’ers and ENDPGM

Heyo,
Check out my Java Jumpstart for RPG’ers in the latest edition of IBMSystemsMag.com (page 44) and let me know what you think of my approach (especially if you haven’t had much exposure to Java).
Also take a peek at the ENDPGM interview on page 64 in which I was the interviewee.
Have a great Thursday!
—-UPDATE 2009-10-19—-
The article [...]

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