Why is it that as I get older my fingers, instead of becoming increasingly skillful on the keyboard – they are becoming more and more like a bunch of half-thawed walls sausages. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as passionate about a well cooked sossy-sarnie as the next man… personally I’m all about grilling them to

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My Wonderful Spring Spaniel Bailey went to doggie heaven three months ago today I’m still devastated over the death of Bailey and have been through a roller-coaster of emotions trying to decide whether to get another dog or not. Any dog owners out there will know exactly what I’m talking about. In my case, in

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Softlanding Turnover Change Management tool works great and has a nice windows front end (based on Eclipse) and most of the functions are easy to find. For those green screen stalwarts out there – you can also access Turnover from the green screen 5250 command line. Most functions are pretty easy to find but some

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The Zend Framework is a neat thing for letting my RPG programmers brain run a little wild. Yes it’s object Oriented and not (necessarily) that easy to adapt to the linear model that us old schoolers may be used to. But does that mean we can’t adopt it? “Hell No!” – “Adapt and Survive” is

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Why are so many IBMi developers still stuck in the same application design thought process they had 20 years ago? Why do so many IBMi developers still refer to IBM-i as AS400 (the old system that we used in the early 1990’s)? Why are some people still writing batch report programs and 5250 green screen enquiries? Evolving

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