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…with 4 wheels that also mows the lawn I’ve just spent a particularly enjoyable hour cutting the grass at home… wait I hear you say… did he say enjoying and cutting grass in the same sentence? Well… Yes I Did. We’ve just got a new mower. It’s Cub Cadet iSeries. Believe it or not hadnt …
User guide – JBA System 21 Back in the early nineties, I worked for a software house in Chertsey (Surrey, UK) called JBA. Fun times in my formative AS400/RPG programming years. The days were filled with blue suits, typing on clunky terminals, racing around in convertible company cars, yearning to be a yuppy and boozy …
I don’t know who wrote the following article about Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America. But I found it searching around for some info to answer some questions that Nate asked… it struck me as one of those cool medieval mysteries that we just will never ever know the answer to…. unless someone invents a …
Google Voice Google have a new service coming out soon called Google Voice – its in Beta the moment. I applied for it a month back and just got an email from them last night – basically Google Voice lets you choose a free telephone number which can be diverted to any number you own. …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
Honestly, I despair of the RPG monkeys that knock up code that’s as bad as some of the things I’m working on currently. I found a great term to describe what I’ve been doing of late: refactoring Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing …
No. It’s a website which millions of people visit every day, or in some cases every hour of the every day so they can satisfy their inherent need to spy on their friends and family. It’s also used to grow crops and bug people in the incredibly annoying Farmthing application. You can also really annoy …
Microsoft secretly owns IBM Software Quality through Perception, Not Reality Nashville, TN – The 2008 Annual Meeting and Exposition of the COMMON user group took place in Nashville, Tennessee. The opening session began at 3:30 pm on Sunday and what a session that was! First the audience was welcomed by COMMON president Randy Dufault where …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Programming, RPG
I’m a big fan of WDSC7 (Websphere Development Studio Client for Windows) for my RPG/CL/DDS/SQL/whatever coding when I’m using windows.. but there are a few others out there. I would love to use IBM’s RDi (Rational Developer for IBM i) but while IBM insist on charging around $900 for the program it puts it firmly …
IBM Code Editor – S.E.U. (or Stoneage Entry Utility) As I drag myself, kicking and screaming, out of the green-on-black stone ages and into the sunny clear skies of 21st century web enabled coding, I find myself seriously confused about what tools I should use to write this new fangled code. Leaving the world of …
Ecuador Geography: Ecuador is bordered to the north by Colombia, to the east and south by Peru, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. There are three distinct zones in this country: 1) The Highlands or uplands of the Andes, running from the Colombian border in the north to Peru in the south (of …
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the AS/400. Happy Birthday to an amazing computer system that continues to power thousands of businesses around the globe. The date was June 21st, 1988, when IBM introduced the Application System/400 (AS/400). The AS/400 quickly became one of the world’s most popular business computing systems. By …
WYSIWYG means “what-you-see-is-what-you-get”
Thats an internet fact.
Basically this means that when you type into a comment box on a website you want to be able to click bold italic and underline and actually see the words changing on the screen – as opposed to entering all the geeky <strong> <italic> and <ul> codes.
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