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Back in ’94 I worked on this side of the pond for a couple of years. It was my first time in the States and led to an extensive exploration of all the bars and restaurants in the surrounding areas. At the time, the Awful Arthurs Seafood Company in downtown Roanoke VA was new and …
“May the IBM i Deathstar Power System be with you.” Rochester MN – The new IBM Power™ 995 Deathstar* System is the most powerful server ever offered by the IBM Galactic Empire. This server provides out-of-this-world performance with massive scalability. The Power 995 is by far the most remarkable technological product of the IBM Galactic …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
Tips to reduce static storage The variables in an ILE RPG module or program can be divided into three storage (memory) classes: static, automatic, and heap (or dynamic.) These classes determine how and when storage is allocated, used and freed. If a program uses a lot of static storage, and has many instances active at …
I found this old email tucked away in a dark, damp corner of my old desktop. Covered in cobwebbs, sticky with splashes of Jolt Cola and sticky bits of snickers bars it raised a wry smile whgen I read it. A quick cut/paste later and here it is. I sent this to some of my AS400 team members when on site for a client in London. A big German bank who’s name rhymes with… erm… well it doesnt rhyme with anything actually.
Anyway, this was my first visit to the Annual News400 conference back in 2000. I had a fantastic time and was in full geek delight for the entire week:
So, I attended the News/400 International Conference in Vail, Colorado, last week.
...Fix corrupted OUTLOOK email PST files Awoke this morning to find my Outlook email not working because Outlook2007 was reporting that my PST file was damaged… Aaaaaargh!!! Much scratching of head ensued and vaguely worried faces were pulled while I drank a cup of coffee and wondered what to do next. Outlook says there is …
I’ve grown up with all the flavours of MS Windows from Windows 3.1 through to Vista… Back in the early days my first experience of computers was with the BBC Acorn and BBC-B at School and at home I saved up my pocket money and bypassed the Sinclair ZX81’s that my friends had got for …
Ever heard of JBA Software? JBA was one of the world’s leading business software providers in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Based in Birmingham, England, it had offices nationwide due to explosive growth partly due to the phenomenal success of IBM’s “AS/400” midrange computer system. Founded in 1981 by two former IBM employees, JBA focused …
This is the first step in the initiating group and is a process called “developing the project charter”. It’s a high level overview of all the factors that are leading into the project and the inputs to the charter are normally documented decisions. This is normally written by the project sponsor or whoever initiated the project. …
So, It’s thursday lunchtime and I’ve just wasted an hour of my life sifting through the thousands of website comments and deleting the spam. 99.9% of it was adverts for (yes, you’ve guessed it) various small blue pills and lotions promising monstrous erections and the ability to proudly say “Hung like BULL“
What is it with these horrid companies generating internet spam and splashing it around the website? Ooooh… it gets my blood pressure raising – AND I DIDNT EVEN NEED A PILL TO DO IT!!!
...Randomly surfing around the web this morning I stumbled across an interesting page from an Australian IT Recruitment company. One of their guys had writen a piece on the importance of using quality people on your project from grass roots to upper echelons. It’s a good read with a humourous but all too accurate twist:
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Email messages with attachments may seem entertaining and harmless… but don’t be fooled! Viruses are commonly spread through email attachments. All it takes is one mouse click to launch a virus that may potentially send itself to everyone in your address book or destroy all of the data on your hard drive. You can avoid …
‘Uncle Dave’, as I like to call him, is a world class trainer in all aspects of project management; notably PMBOK® and Prince2®. He’s a big name in the field of Project Management Training and has spent decades being flown all over the world to host PM training courses. Fast forward twenty years and this …