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Free Bullworker Wallchart – Isometric Exercise Training Planner What Is the Bullworker? The Bullworker is an exercise device that’s used for isometric exercise. It features spring-loaded, contracting cylinders and users push inward on both ends of the device to work the arm muscles. It has strap down the side which expand the workout to include …
Last week was an exciting one… driving from San Francisco to Las Vegas on Friday (including the obligatory but less than amusing Boris Breakdown)… packing and loading my moving truck on Saturday/Sunday and then driving across country to my new home here at Folly Beach, South Carolina. I’ve moved to Folly for the next six …
Death of a Landrover LR3 Well, not really the death, lets call it ‘moving over to the other side’. Whatever we call it, Boris won’t be haunting me any more. The final straw was breaking down on Christmas Day! Bloody useless thing!!! So, my New Years resolution is to admit defeat and get a reliable …
ILE RPG (sometimes called RPG4) was the biggest change to the RPG programming language in recent years. What are the advantages of ILE in RPG? In RPG it is one step compilation (we will get *PGM object) while in ILE-RPG it is two step compilation (we have to create a *MODULE and then bind that …
In the never ending quest to break down in every state of the United States of America, Boris the Land Rover most recently refused to run while visiting the beautiful wine regions of California. So, it’s a balmy November day and driving up to California’s wine country should be a fun time right? #WRONG Not …
Software Change Management Roles and Responsibilities If you are designing the best setup for your Software Change Management system (specifically TURNOVER V100 for iSeries) these notes might help. We have four main user groups: Software Solution Analysts Change Administrators Development Team QA/UAT Team System Authorities We need to clean the IBM I authorities so they …
SQLRPGLE and COMMIT(*NONE) Moving to SQL (from native file IO) has been a major game changer in the RPG programming world. SQLRPGLE can be confusing to learn, horrible to use if it needs lots of compile time parameters but using Exec SQL SET OPTION something answers my prayers. I first played with SQL back the golden …
So, I emigrated over here to the New World (as my redcoat forebears used to call it) five years ago. During this time I’ve been lucky enough to travel all over America, driven coast to coast twice, lived in various States and met many wonderful people. The weather is fantastic and life is good… I …
What is RPG Open Access? Rational® Open Access: RPG Edition provides a way for RPG programmers to use the simple and well-understood RPG I/O model to access resources and devices that are not directly supported by RPG. Open Access opens up RPG’s file I/O capabilities, allowing anyone to write innovative I/O handlers to access other …
If you have a Drupal website then you will be well aware of the near daily battle with annoying spam trying to get a free ride of your sites visitors. Obviously, I’m not talking about the delicious pinkish world war two meaty thing made of Pork, water, sugar and some starchy stuff… but instead, I’m …
I’m loving the new changes to RPGLE with IBM i 7.1 TR7 (that is Technology Release 7). Not to be confused with the awesome Triumph TR7, the sexy pop-up headlight car from the eighties, but I digress… Removal of many unnecessary specifications like F, or P /free /endfree is gone the long procedure and variable …
What Software does every IBM i Software Developer need? Last week I was asked to help the Network Team to create a pc-image for a new windows rollout to refresh the software builds for the IBM i Developers and other IT Techies. It’s an exciting time at my client’s site… with the haggle looking flustered …
