I’ve spent this week implementing a Cheque (yes — that is the correct and very English way of spelling ‘check’) scanning solution for a client. The basic idea is — company receives lots of money payments by cheque, these are scanned, sorted and deposited direct into the companies bank account and the deposit information is

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The DFT Keyword is used to specify the default value of a field in the Physical File. The format of the keyword is: DFT(‘value’ | numeric-value | X’hexadecimal-value’ | *NULL) Without this keyword, character and hexadecimal fields are set to blanks as default and numeric fields are set to zeros as default. However, if you

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Those KEYWORD CLOUDS that you see on some websites are cool aren’t they!?! They’re also very simple to use in Drupal… but as I discovered… not so simple to setup. Or at least to find out how to setup anyway. So, for my failing memory and for anyone else out there that this may assist

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This morning I got question from an old RPG3 chum of mine: I know a couple of questions they will ask me, what are the different parms used on sub-procedures like *OMIT/*Nopass. Didn’t we use those any way? I thought we were writing programs that did or did not necessarily get parms depending what called

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A few years ago I setup the website for Bullworker UK who were distributing this excellent exercise device called – The Bullworker. It’s a stretchy muscle builder and really does work (honestly!). They sold a few different exercise devices all designed using the principles of ‘isometric exercise’: Bullworker, Steelbow and a German product called the

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So, I’ve recently been getting a lot of junk voicemails and in an effort to inconvenience these callers as much as it inconveniences me. It’s time for a long winded and time consuming voice mail greeting. I extended the BEEEP at the end so that it keep on going for the full two minutes before

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