Words of wisdom from the IBM i community
The annual COMMON conference is just around the corner … this time in Reno Nevada.
Three significant things of note for this conference …
Al Barsa Memorial Scholarship
Board of Directors Elections
Presenting Sessions
While I was on my vacation, they installed a new IBM i model M25 at work for development. It’s quite nice … and significantly faster than the previous 820 we had. It reminds me of my last job … when we upgraded from a D35 to one of the new “RISC” systems (they had just…
Just a quick note to wish our friend, Trevor ‘Angus’ Perry, a very happy 50th birthday.
We’ve all experienced this: you’re working on some code … probably code that was written a long time ago … and you realize that, with all the experience you’ve accumulated since the code was originally written, you could re-write (or refactor) the code so it would be much better. The question is … how do…
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 application code (interfaced from RPG, not the…
This is an example of how NOT to send a resume to a prospective employer.
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 (window buttons in the…
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 jest ……
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.
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 Eclipse Target Management project. Obviously…