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Some TURNOVER SQL Magic Ever wanted to see a quick list of everything that is checked out for a Turnover Project? What if the Project has many subprojects? We can use the Turnover V100 plugin for RDI, or we can use the good old green screen to poke around but it’s much easier to peek …
Chicago, IL – COMMON user group president Randy Dufault has expressed concern at the increasingly low quality of people joining COMMON. He has decided to implement a new entrance exam required for all new applicants for membership into the group in hopes to weed out the undesirable. The exam questions are as follows: 1. What …
After nearly three years of intense community collaboration by nearly a thousand contributors, Drupal 7.0 is today officially released and ready for download! Drupal is dead, Long Live Drupal. This latest incarnation of the popular open source Web content management system, is now generally available and it’s free! Oh, how I love that word. …
As 2011 New Years Eve came and went I spent a long time considering what my core personal resolutions should be: Eat Less, Exercise More, Speak Less, Think More. Obviously I have my slightly more extravagant resolutions which are bound to fail: Take up Aikido, Become a Wine Connoisseur, Learn how to write Android & iPad …
Virtual Private Networking is a technique that allows you to connect to the Internet from one country but *look* like you are connected from another country. I use this a lot when traveling – I get persistently annoyed by some provincial on line services (the BBC TV website is a prime example) that only let …
Last night I was asked what the differences between RPG versions were: RPG3 RPG400 RPGLE: IBM have gone out of their way to make the version naming and releases differences so quirky, dirty and convoluted that I’m not even sure they know what to call the current incarnation of this beautiful programming language. Anyhooo, here’s …
Ever created an IFS file with a whacky file name? As part of my testing routines for the new IBMi Data Distribution commands (DSTDTA and DSTSPLF) I was creating and testing all kinds of documents in the integrated File system. Taking any file from the good ole iSeries and converting it to TXT, PDF, XML, …
So, as part of an IBM-i project to “rebuild a bunch of source libraries on the development machine” I always think about backups before touching things. Not because I have history of deleting things (while in rampant house keeping mode) and then regretting it later… we would never do that right? cough So, since I …
I miss tea and scones… … but loving life in the USA and couldn’t imagine living life anywhere else. Life over here is awesome So, shortly after relocating to the colonies I find myself riding around the country, wearing my red-coat outfit and searching for American keyboards to tap on. Trying to find somewhere to …
In yesterdays blog (how to display images in Google mail), I mentioned the excellent Blank Canvas Gmail Signature FireFox Add-on (wow that’s a mouthful 😉 ) which allows rich text html style signatures to be appended to emails from within Google email. I was surprised to find a couple of private mails this morning asking …
Life online is not the same as living online. There is a fine balance between living your life and spending time dealing with a big chunk of that life revolving around the interweb super highway social media computerized cloud of things. It’s a matter of balance. I’m a Dad foremost (ever father will know what …
I’ve long been a follower of Mr Aaron Bartell – a nice guy and one of the most dynamic IBMi developers I have come across for a while. He works for a company, Krengel Tech, offering some neat functions that simplify getting good old AS400 data out onto the internet. Yes, I know the AS400 was …
