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Washington DC – President Trump announced his government is launching a special software advisory group – “Not long ago we all went through the Year 2000 crisis. If you were in the computer and software industry you recall the many headaches in converting and changing databases and software so the Year 2000 would be a …
Pomodoro Time Management Over the last year, I’ve found a marked decrease in productivity during project work due to what seems like a lot more life interruptions. I’m (a) easily distracted, (b) the king of procrastination, and (c) frequently trying to multi-task to such a wide degree that I almost completely zone out and have …
RPG would be Jehovah’s Witnesses – RPG programmers are of the elite 144,000 left in the world (because there are only 144,000 left in the world) and believe they are in the last days of the present world and lots of people make fun of them for their beliefs and rigid standards. The modern generation …
Loads of choices and a terrific range of great places to eat in Charleston so here’s my personal favorites – trying to cover a broad spectrum. Downtown My favorite *steak* restaurant is called Peninsular Grill and its smack in the middle of downtown. Just park at the old market on, surprisingly enough, market street and …
IBM Rational Developer for i Service Pack V9.5.1.1 is now available This fixpack includes fixes, enhancements and the long awaited Refactoring capability: letting us Rename Declarations from Column based to free format. If you are an RDi User — and if you are an RPG programmer then you will be — use the IBM Installation …
ICDSOFT Websites now include free SSL Certificates I’ve used ICDSOFT as my preferred web host for years now. I’ve always been very happy with there prices, fast servers and fantastic customer service. Seriously – their sure support team are the best I’ve every worked with! Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority that provides free SSL …
CTRL + D = Duplicate a line of code Yes – Forget COPY/BEFORE/AFTER and quickly duplicate a line in RDi with CTRL/D. It’s really that simple. If, like me, you grew up with SEU as your terminal based editor choice – you will be used to Copy and Before or After. You might even get …
IBM i, AS400, iSeries, Life, Programming
Who uses the AS/400 anymore? I frequently see this question in places like Linkedin, Facebook and Quora, it’s both simple and complicated to answer. It’s Simple because the AS/400 just doesn’t exist anymore! I doubt anyone is using the old AS400 machines anymore…. they are over thirty years old. Complicated because (stupidly) many current day programmers …
What is Ingress? It’s a game. A huge MMO that is played world wide. It’s played outside, in the real world, using any mobile device. It’s using google maps to show a real world view. Ingress is an Augmented Reality Game (ARG) where you have to go to certain locations and hack portals. There are …
Pschoville is very reminiscent of A League of Gentlemen – not the movie, but its dark and twisted telly cousin. I love it. Psychoville is weird, humorous, silly, serious and still scary but funny and sometimes disturbing…. confused enough? I sure was. The Clown is pure genius. The Silent Dancer is somehow super scarey. The …
What is Legacy Code? I’ve always thought LEGACY it was the correct terminology for old fashioned RPG source code. For years I’ve been focused on refactoring old column based RPG “legacy” code into new “modern” RPGLE code. But it seems that I’ve been guilty of using the wrong words all this time. I just read …
Autodesk Inventor problem with Win10 Eldest son has started a new high school class – Engineering. I’m excited for him because Engineering Science was one of the classes that I really enjoyed. Back in the day, we used slide rules, sketched on huge sheets of paper with hard pencils, used sin/cos/tan to calculate angles and …
