Code400.com is probably the best RPG programming related forum around (Bob Cozzi’s comes in a close second but the UI is just awful and I really cant spend to long trying to navigate around without getting annoyed… but I digress…). I frequently read neat little tricks and this is a smart one I saw a

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Last week, my office started a health and wellness campaign to promote a little activity for us sedentary office folks. Great idea. So, I joined the IT TEAM with an aim of getting of my substantial backside and walking a few miles every day. This should be good news for my waistline, great news for

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The End of the World is coming because… GOD According to Pastor Harold Camping, the Churches *cough* Religious Loon Leader the world is going to end on Saturday, with a ‘World Wide Earthquake’. I guess this is the Lords version of Rocky Horrors ‘It’s just a jump to the left. And then a step to

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I’ve been writing a reasonably complex RPG4 program to extract order/shipment/invoice information from JBA and create a spreadsheet in the IFS showing shipping percentages against various targets… I like to have some cool background sounds on that wont distract my brain too much from what I’m doing: I have been known to accidentally start typing

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RPG passes parameters by reference, IE the memory address. If you are calling a program there is a potential that the calling program can modify the value at that address. If you do not want the value to change then set the parameter in the program or procedure to use the CONST keyword. This simple

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