Me and my wing man (Bailey Version 2.0 – the Springer Spaniel) arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday night after a smooth flight courtesy of Delta Airlines. Shipping pets around domestic USA is remarkably easy and pain free: Make sure dog is all up to date with vaccinations and get a certificate from Vet saying

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Over recent years I’ve become increasingly focused on connecting IBM i Systems to the Internet – aka cloud for you trendy peeps. We live in an internet connected world and the requirements for a business to plug their back-office Power Servers into this big cloud is rapidly becoming a standard. With the huge increase in

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Note: The following are humorous (and sometimes serious) quotes gathered from the internet. Since it’s all a big rip-off, I am assuming no copyright whatsoever. I don’t even guarantee that they are accurate. Now that you’ve been warned, enjoy. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. — Thomas Watson, Chairman of

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Dear IBM i Nerd, I am a System i programmer with 1 year experience and I work for a large company with over 30 programmers. I don’t seem to be taken seriously by my peers or my boss. What can I do to enhance my career advancement opportunities within my company and to achieve credibility

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Glendale, CA – Cocoa is a hot new programming language developed by Nestle Microsystems. The language was originally designed for programming hot chocolate machines but Nestle soon realized that the language had the potential to do much more. Because it is “architecture neutral” it can run on any device with a microchip including PCs, the

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In an announcement that stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan admitted the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate prank, kept alive over 20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following: “In 1969, AT&T had just terminated their

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There was a doctor, a civil engineer, and an RPG programmer sitting around late one evening, and they got to discussing which was the oldest profession. The doctor pointed out that according to Biblical tradition, God created Eve from Adam’s rib. This obviously required surgery, so therefore that was the oldest profession in the world.

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Dear Uncle AS400, my disk space keeps creeping higher and higher, and I don’t mean up the stairs!  Is there a simple way I can clean up my disk drives to reduce this amount of disk space being wasted by unnecessary ones and zeros? A: Yes, the system has a very simple command that will

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Lets start from a point where you know what JSON is right? JSON JavaScript Object Notation or JSON (/JAY-sən), is an open-standard file format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and array data types. It is a very common data format used for asynchronous browser/server communication, including as a replacement for XML in some AJAX-style systems. Data types in JSON include string, number, boolean, array

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IBM i Defaults are just defaults – not the optimal settings This weekend I upgraded an old Turnover 5.4 Change Management installation to the newer V100 version across several LPAR’s of a customer’s IBMi installation. As part of the mission to tidy up the Software Change process – I see a lot of objects that

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