Last night was I was chatting to an old programming chum in Chicago. As you may be aware, for most[...]

This morning I had an email from a blog subscriber ( Hi Rick! ) asking for a code tips on[...]

This morning I awoke to find an email from a digital blackmailer. This email shows one of my commonly used[...]

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I recently updated the blog to use the very impressive THRIVE THEME called PRESSIVE. I love the SHOW IMAGE IN[...]

A while ago I had a problem where I wanted to change the first two characters in a table and[...]

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Upgraded our IBM i systems to IBM i V7.3 yesterday and so far everything is running nicely except for this[...]

Following on from my previous blog (basic email validation) I decided that it would much nicer to (a) have the[...]

There are lots of code snippets, example programs and long waffling discussions in internet land filled with pointy headed AS400,[...]

Wow - that's another long url title. I really wanted to call this "How To Check Out An Object From[...]

What's in a font? Lots of things make our life easier as IBM i Programmers. Working with a clean, easy[...]

I had to pull records from two files with a matching date value in each file. To make things interesting,[...]

Back in the good old days of single megabyte disks the size of a shoebox, when hard drives were called[...]

This week I be mainly.... working on a Casino System upgrade, dragging decades old code into the twenty first century.[...]

So, we have a customer masterfile that's been around for years. Users have been keying in customer info and sometimes[...]

What's new, Ubuntu 18.04 Linux? The biggest change is heralded as the switch from the traditional Ubuntu UNITY DESKTOP in[...]

I've been playing with my home Wifi this week, trying to resurrect my old SCALEO Home Server which has been[...]