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My mate Toby sent me this email: I love RDI … But I do come across one issue that I’m sure you can sort out… using SEU if I wanted to find the start of a subroutine, I always made them # something like #Clr or #Bld etc. and there was only 1 place in …
IBM i, AS400, IFS, iSeries, Programming
This morning I wanted to find a quick and dirty way to “Scan Replace text in IFS” files without writing a program to do it…. SPOILER ALERT – it’s really really insanely simple using JAVA QSHELL and the SED command So, before I start into techno-babble mode, here is some background of why I’m looking …
PARLER the last bastion of “FREE SPEECH” During the course of 2020, we have seen the dystopian silencing of free speech on social media outlets like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. New discourse applications like PARLER have spawned in this space to defend and champion this thing called freedom of speech. The four Big Tech companies …
SPOILER ALERT – it’s ODYSEE YouTube has become Big Brother It’s time to look for a Youtube Alternative! America’s First Amendment prohibits the government from passing a law that forces any company to censor content. Ironically, it does not prohibit American Companies from censoring content and presenting skewed political views and news. Public sources should …
I’m sick of Covid It’s time for another Covid Rant 🙂 I posted on social media this morning, expressing my opinion that: “I believe some governments are mishandling the Covid19 pandemic response and blowing it out of all proportion! The minimal effect of Covid19 on the world’s population (with a 99%+ survival rate) makes this …
Tale of a Tattoo Nearly thirty years ago, while working in the USA for the first time, I found myself sitting in a hotel bored out of my mind and decided to get a Tattoo. Yup, the impetuousness of youth! First Tattoo [June 1994] I was in the USA working on an old JBA system …
AS400, IBM i, iSeries, Programming, RPG
Built-In Functions in RPGLE – %EOF & %FOUND %EOF(filename) This built-in function is used to detect end-of file, beginning of file, or subfile full conditions while performing a file operation. Rather than using indicators, we should use %EOF to check if the end of file is reached. %EOF returns ‘1‘ if end-of file, beginning of file, …
404 Solution This neat WordPress Plugin will give your readers a much smoother experience of your website. If someone comes looking for something on your website but has misspelled their URL slightly, rather than display an error message “the dreaded 404 not found error” the 404 Solution Plugin will search your existing content looking for …
So, You wanna make a website do you? Well, it’s not as daunting as you may think. Let me take you through the entire process from choosing a domain name, setting up a web host, installing a website CMS, designing the look and feel to publishing your new website on the search engines (Google, Bing, …
Thinking about how to Put Yourself On The Map? PUTTING YOURSELF ON THE MAPMake famous, publicize, as in “The incident got on the national news and put our community on the map.” This expression, alluding to a locality that formerly was too small to put on a map, dates from the early 1900s. Some Bloke …
You know, I write about many aspects of website technology, how to build and use SEO, how to make money online and how to sell your own technology services., Since most of my posts are geared to the beginner level person who wants to learn more about SEO and/or handle the optimization of their site …
Artificial Intelligence can be Artificial Stupidity when sending spam mail This morning I had a quick browse of my email junk folder looking for those sometimes incorrectly flagged spam mails. I saw this flagged spam mail from Grill Insiders. It’s a proper spam mail, automatically generated by Grill Insiders email generator that obviously needs a …