Every propeller head takes some kind of perverse joy from wiping and reinstalling their Windows Machine. I know I do. After a year of various software installs, un-installs, re-installs, tweaks, hacks, dicking around (that’s a technical term) my Windows machine starts to get twitchy and a little punch drunk. It’s time for a fresh install and

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Excited to see a new release of MiWorkplace – the replacement for RPG NEXT GEN code editor. Will download this and do a little review in a blog sometime: Hi Nick, I am really happy to announce a new release of MiWorkplace. This release is not as feature packed as the last one but on

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IBM Rational Developer (RDi) is good but bloody expensive! If you are reading this blog then chances are you are (a) an RPG Programmer and (b) using SEU to edit your code and (c) you are frustrated that SEU wont syntax check new RPG anymore! It’s time to leap into an RPG EDITOR or be pushed… RDi

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This is a pain not being able to see it in RPGNG (RPG Next Generation is an excellent RPG coding tool) but I still have to revert to things like PDM find all source members with specific descriptions against them…. For example: I want to see all RPG source code used for the ‘ABCDEFG’ project

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I occasionally get an email from RPG programmers out there in IBMi-Land who have spent the last decade gently plodding along in RPG3 and RPG400 and now face the daunting prospect of having to hone there RPG skills and learn RPG4 (or RPG-LE or /FREE as its also called). So, I’ve quickly cobbled together links

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Fresh out today – thje latest build of the RPG Next Generation editor – 0.5.0 Open Source at its best and finally a nice, friendly, easy to use code editor for the IBM i. Download the latest version for here It’s at version 0.5 so still in early days yet, but with each minor release

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