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So, I was watching a documentary about a guy that eats PIZZA every single day of his life. He has it for dinner every night. He Loves it. I had to admit that it’s very very like my obsession with the classic “Cheese and Wine” meal. A few different cheeses, some crusty French bread and …
RPG is a vibrant modern programming language and its getting moderner. is moderner a verb? it should be 🙂 If you are an established RPG programmer, its just too easy to use the same old tried and tested techniques when coding. Doing things the good old fashioned way (or perhaps you call it the tried …
With one whole day of using, playing and tinkering with the new Windows10 Technical Preview – I have nothing but nice things to say about it. It’s great(ish) 🙂 Well… that is not quite accurate as I have hit one or two niggling problems… but here is the solution to the main finger biter: SHREWSOFT …
It’s not as simple as saying the the “Website has crashed” it’s more like the website has groan, warned me and then exploded in the most egregious way. That will teach me to go tinkering in SQL… *sigh* Bollocks, Bugger and Damnation! On the bright(ish) side this site has been around since the days of …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Life, Programming
I used to be an AS400 RPG Programmer – What am I now? I’m an IT Consultant (aka RPG Programmer) primarily working on IBM Power Systems (IBM i, System-i, iSeries, AS400). I’ve worked with the IBM AS400 (iSeries, IBMi) for twenty years and specialize in all variants of the RPG/CL language as well as detailed …
Doctor Who’ Star Matt Smith Joins ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ (Exclusive) Matt Smith, who recently completed a four-season stint starring in Doctor Who, has joined the cast of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the adaptation of the Seth Grahame-Smith novel. The movie is a horror-comedy spin on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The heroine, …
You know you’re in California when the welder at the Muffler Shop gives you dietary advice on vegetables and fruits! So, in my search for an alternative to the wallet busting quote of $1,300.00 to replace Hermans the Honda’s full exhaust system I stumbled across a local muffler shop and dropped by for a free …
THE AID BYTE IS A SINGLE CHARACTER FIELD THAT CONTAINS A HEX CODE THAT WILL TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT THE USER PRESSED ON THE SCREEN – IE: ENTER OR PF3 OR PF12 OR ‘WHATEVER’ The File Information Data Structure is has all kinds of very cool information stored in it. It makes any programmers life …
Boris is Dead! Long live Herman :)))) So, Herman has been a terrific little car over the last year. The complete opposite experience from my nightmares with Boris the Landrover. These Honda Elements are great little mini-SUV’s that are economical, cheap to run, roomy inside and generally just good fun! He’s driven from South Carolina …
Modernizing AS400 aka WEB-ENABLING AS400 and iSeries Converting an old green screen application to run in a website is as easy as typing an email or uploading a photo to facebook. If you are a modern IBM i Software developer the chances are, your system has lots of old AS400 and iSeries that code that …
Grab a Coffee – let’s talk about DIVORCE I managed to live the first half of my life without ever setting foot in a court house or ever needing the services of an attorney, a lawyer or a barrister (I still don’t know the difference) Something that we Brit’s talk about with embarrassment and feeling …
Migrating Cousin Rob’s www.DRUMSTHEWORD.com website from his 6 year old Drupal6 website to a new (hopefully sexier) WordPress4 website has meant a lot of data cleansing before golive. Before we get any comments about Drupal vs. WordPress, or a CMS flamewar, the new website was chosen to be on WordPress because of WOOCOMMERCE and a …
