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UPDATE NOV 17 2014 — Skype problem has been fixed by the service pack for #WIN10-Build9879. Huzzah! SKYPE stopped working with WIN10(9860) So far I’m liking Windows10 very muchly. I’ve only had a couple of niggles and this weeks has been the inconvenience of Skype suddenly dying after the upgrade to Build9860. Symptom: Skype will …
UPDATE OCTOBER 2014: A few months ago, Google announced they were discontinuing Google Sync and Google Calendar Sync. These applications were designed to synchronize Gmail accounts with Outlook, various devices and other software via Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol. That time has come and I found that this free google sync stopped working properly. GOOD …
RPG CODE EXAMPLE – “Write to joblog” Write to joblog lets us send messages from inside a running RPG program. It’s simple using one of IBM’s API’s – Qp0zLprintf I’ve used this little technique for ever. Simple define a procedure calling the API (in this example I call it “writejoblog”) and then in your mainline code …
I love living in the USA: The weather is fantastic, people are friendly, I can see palms trees out the window, petrol gas is cheap and I can own a gun. Life is good. Saying that… I’ve been here over five years now and I’ve definitely noticed that I’m picking up a few verbal american’isms. …
Numeric Data Areas are a little trickier than Alphameric Updating any numeric DTAARA in RPGLE is slightly different in RPG /FREEFORMAT than in the good old fashioned column based RPG/400. Using RPG ILE, data structures are treated as mixed-character data. The subfields making up a data structure can be a mix of all data types: …
A week into my #WINDOWS10 Experience and I’m definitely more than pleased with the whole thing. Thumbs up Windows chaps and chapettes 🙂 I just discovered a cure for my only other little VPN niggle. Last week I had a problem getting Cisco AnycConnect to work, but a little registry tweak seemed to fix that …
Bored in my hotel room last night I decided it’s time to do a little research about SAP: There’s been a lot of buzz around SAP since the mid 90’s… 20 years late, I decided to check it out 😉 This blog is an ongoing brain-dump so don’t take it as gospel What is SAP …
Windows 10 Technical Preview Will Be Available For Download Today which is fancy speak for “a free testing version of the new windows can be downloaded today” and *click* I am downloading it right now…. Here is the skinny from techCrunch The company’s new operating system is a long-awaited replacement for its beleaguered Windows 8.x …
Serve JSON Web Services with RPG and YAJL aka — Access data running on other computers with REST and JSON This is a resurrection of an old article which was lost from the internet when iPro Developer died. Luckily, I found an old PDF printout and dutifully copy/pasted all the text. Thanks to Scott Klement …
RPG Programmers are a strange breed of Human If you are a software developer then you will know that RPG is an IBM programming Language. It’s also a Rocket Propelled Grenade. It’s also an acronym for Role Playing Games. This blog will have lots of waffle about being an RPG Programmer and just the occasional …
*sigh* So, my NETGEAR WNDR3700 WIRELESS ROUTER has failed. Working one day – Dying the next. This is the second WNDR3700 Router that has failed for me, with the same problem. The first one failed within a few months of ownership and was replaced by Netgear. This second (replacement) unit is now 3 years old …
Sadly, my much abused heavily used Wireless Network Router looks like it died this morning… well not quite a DEATH… more like gone into a partial coma. This Netgear Rangemax WNDR3700 (Version1) router is a great piece of kit and prior to this I have had no complaints: good range, fast streaming, normal+high speed wireless …
