Developerworks Connections is dead As I was waffling this morning about the sad demise of IBM Developerworks Connections Wiki – here is another excellent article that discusses various extensions to IBM Rational Developer for IBM i – How to Extend RDi (#RDi) So here it is, re-posted before IBM can hide this wonderful source of

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First thing is to add CUSTOM ATTRIBUTES to WooCommerce orders Click on PRODUCTS | ATTRIBUTE – add a new attribute (for example “course name”) and then we will add the values for this attribute: Once you’ve entered an attribute you can add the values for that attribute. In this case, I wanted to add several

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I was discussing the benefits of RDi with a colleague this morning (I’m a bit of a Rational Developer fanboy) because he is trying to justify the huge annual cost of the tool with The Management: nearly $1000 per year per person! A price tag that is #bloodypreposterous. But, I will rant about that in

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IBM i SQL numeric to alphameric So – today I was talking to a colleague who wanted to make a database change to a big old file. This meant changing one of the fields from 7 numeric to 12 alpha. Sounds simple right? Oh if only life were that simple… Now add the complexity that

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Microsoft Project 2010 is arguably the best project management application out there. I regularly brush with it, see its efficacy, try to use it but will sooner later get confused by gantt charts and how they can be setup. I always seem to spend a lot of time trying to create a Project before completely

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