midrange.com - In My Humble Opinion

Plans for 2009?

What are your technological plans for 2009? Got any interesting personal projects that you've planning on undertaking? Any new technologies you want to learn? Personally, I'm going to make a concerted effort to get a better handle on web applications. I've been focusing so much on server side ...

Job Hunting

I just received this email ... Hello, I saw your website Here is my resume Thanks This is an example of how NOT to send a resume to a prospective employer. The resume itself was unremarkable ... the email and the resume included a few pretty big errors. Obviously he sent the resume out blind. He had ...

IBM i == Stress?

A co-worker was shopping for books today and noticed that amazon.com knows a bit about our industry (well, HIS job at least ... he's not an IBM i guy). I would really be interested in knowing how amazon.com came up with that particular recommendation. Maybe it's because he's using a Mac ...

By Any Other Name…

Norm Dennis made a very interesting comment in response to a post by a person new to the system ... Well firstly, it's not an AS/400 it's an E Server I Series, er , i Series, um, System i, oh stuff it, Trevor can you explain? While Norm did make the comment in ...

404 Page

A while ago I was playing around with the archive server's Apache configuration ... and decided to have some fun with the "404" page. This is the result. Sometimes I crack myself up.Share This

Plug-in Developers Reference

Those of us who are developing plug-ins for WDSC / RDi are in for a bit of a shock now that RDi 7.5 has been released. IBM has moved the RSE from a proprietary, closed source, framework to open source. Most of the RSE framework is now part of the ...

Using Eclipselink (Eclipse Persistence Services Project) with DB/2 on System i

This post is about Eclipselink and my experience using it with the System i. It also describes some problems I ran into so you can avoid them if you try Eclipselink. Eclipselink is Eclipse Persistence Services Project, version 1.0 was released July 9, 2008. See http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/ I won’t ...

Build a Tool

Over the past few months I've become quite a tool builder. The project I'm currently on involves a lot of really repetative code changes and analysis ... basically I've been externalizing as much of the text in the product as I can (to message files). There are a LOT of display ...

5250 for iPhone

The folks at Mochasoft have come out with a new 5250 client for mobile devices ... this one for the iPhone. There are two versions in the Apple iTunes Store ... a free 'Lite' version and the full version for $29.99. For what it does, the $29.99 cost is not unreasonable ... ...

Context Is Key

Ha! I'll bet you thought this blog was dead. Well, in the words of Miracle Max, only mostly dead. I'm in the process of reading a new programming book (well, not new to some ... new to me). I'll probably post a review in a week or so (yeah, right). Anyways, it ...