I am putting together a form of research initiative that aims to quantify *why* a non-IBMi tech person should consider or pursue IBMi. I believe one of the best sources of this information can come from the community, so I’ve setup a GoogleDoc that can be edited by anybody (no Google signup required).
If you are interested in contributing then please head over to this link:http://bit.ly/OyCd3M
The results of this will be placed onto IBM’s IBMi wiki page for all to see and act as a place we can point people.
Here’s a tweet phrase if you are looking to share socially:
Why #IBMi? If you had to convince a #Ruby #PHP #Java dev to run their app on #IBMi what would you say? Comment here: bit.ly/OyCd3M
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I am putting together a form of research initiative that aims to quantify *why* a non-IBMi tech person should consider or pursue IBMi. I believe one of the best sources of this information can come from the community, so I’ve setup a GoogleDoc that can be edited by anybody (no Google signup required).
If you are interested in contributing then please head over to this link:http://bit.ly/OyCd3M
The results of this will be placed onto IBM’s IBMi wiki page for all to see and act as a place we can point people.
Here’s a tweet phrase if you are looking to share socially:
Why #IBMi? If you had to convince a #Ruby #PHP #Java dev to run their app on #IBMi what would you say? Comment here: bit.ly/OyCd3M
AaronBartell.com
Read the original at Young i Perspectives.
The world of audits is a reality that more financial companies are learning to live with. One of the things being audited are the texts sent to social media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. It is for that reason I have ventured further into the APIs Twitter offers so I could learn how to do more advance queries for archiving purposes. Essentially a “cover your butt” effort.
The article on IBM developerWorks is officially titled “Cover your bases with TweetMe4i and JSON” but I originally submitted it with “butt” instead of “bases”.
Who wants to cover their bases when their butt is exposed? Is there a new body part name “bases” that I don’t know about? I will admit I had no idea eggs weren’t a dairy product until earlier this week - after my wife got done laughing she explained it to me. So I guess I wouldn’t put the “bases” body part past me as something never before heard of… For some reason I always categorized eggs as dairy. Because of this gaffe I will be starting a new support group that aims to teach the foundational truths of the food groups and what is in each. This group will be a big relief to those of us that have “food deception” over the years.
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Categories: Blogs Tags: Articles, DB2, i, IBM i, iSeries, Java, json, Open Source, Programming, RPG, Twitter
Cloud computing is here to stay. There are so many flavors of it at this point it is hard to digest what cloud is and is not. Meander over to my recent article on IBMSystemsMag.com titled The Cloud Has Come; Is The Rain Good for some opines on the subject.
The next generation of computing professionals will grow up around cloud being an accepted norm (i.e. my kids do their school reports using GoogleDocs and NOT Microsoft Word or other thick client application). What are we, the leaders of today, doing to verse ourselves in this technology to understand how it can benefit our business and also understand the things to stay away from?
Would love to hear comments of how you have embraced or stayed away from cloud.
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I have been a big fan of IBM i for many years. I believe it can meet most any business need out there. In my most recent IBMSystemsMag.com article I propose that we need to rethink how and where we are running processes within our infrastructures. Why NOT focus on running the majority of our businesses on IBM i?
Note that if you have a Microsoft KoolAid mustache right now you might want to take some tranquilizers before reading the article being it is an opinion piece and I have no issue letting punchesgo through toMicrosoft when it involves the viability of an existing IBM i business.
If on the other hand you are looking for some celebration of IBM i, well then belly up to the bar, spill your KoolAid and sip a cold IBM i beer.
If you would like to discuss this in more detail then head on over to theIBMSystemsMag.com comment area for this particular article.
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Thanks to the handy work of Ryan Watkins (IBM) we now have PostGreSQL ported to IBM i. You can learn more about this port at http://youngiprofessionals.com/wiki/Databases/PostgreSQL
This is great news because it makes IBM i potentially useful to a whole new crowd of application developers.
Let me paint a picture in your mind: Imagine a world where anybody (high school grad, college student, 1st year professional, 30yr professional, SMB) could spin up an IBM i instance “in the cloud” in a few minutes and test out it’s capabilities. Imagine that the IBM i instance was pre-loaded with all the software necessary to meet a particular development need (i.e. PostGreSQL/PHP/ZendServer, Java/Tomcat/MySQL, RPG/DB2/ExtJS, etc). Imagine that it was actually affordable to have your own IBM i in the cloud! All I can say is we are incrementally getting closer…
With the recently announced and refined Image Management on Steve Will’s blog, this pre-loaded image concept is currently a reality. Take that a step further and see how automated IBM has made the process of creating a new virtual LPAR of IBM i in the cloud: video.
The next step would be for IBM to offer the VLP service, shown in the aforementioned video, as a reasonable-cost-monthly-lease. The good news is that they are already doing test-bed implementations of this with PartnerWorld ISVs. If you are a ParnterWorld ISV looking to gain access to an IBM i LPAR in the cloud for commercial development purposes at INCREDIBLY reasonable cost, then you should contact Jon Rush (jrush@us.ibm.com).
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Real-world examples are my favorite because it takes a technology concept and puts it to the test. Such was the case with my most recent article where I describe how to couple open source solutions to create hospital patient wristbands with QR codes. In this article I introduce the RPG programmer to the free and open source iText tool which is an excellent way to create PDF’s on IBMi.
Check it outand let me know what you think!
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Welp, QR codes seem to be all the rage as of late. So for those of us RPG’ers that need to create them for marketing or business purposes I thought I would put an RPG wrapper around my original Java program found in this article on IBMSystemsMag.com.
Random thought: What I don’t want to see is a whole bunch of RPG programmers going out to get QR code tatoos - yes, others are doing just that. And yes, I know you just got back from http://images.google.com looking to see what QR codes people tatooed on themselves - I didn’t come down on the last rain drop - just the last cloud.
Anyways, you can find the article here and the open source project page here. Let me know your thoughts on QR codes.
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Android apps are fun to create, but once you have something “out in the wild” you need to continue updating it with features that users are requesting. Such is the case with my 3rd article based on the SureYouCanHaveTheKeys.com idea.
Are there other things you’d like to see in the SureYouCanHaveTheKeys.com application? Please tell me so I can add them!
Remember: the entire SureYouCanHaveTheyKeys application is free and open source, so feel free to try it out yourself!
You can find Part 1
here.
You can find Part 2
here.
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Categories: Blogs Tags: android, Articles, as400, DB2, extjs, i, IBM, IBMi, iSeries, Java, Open Source, RPG, sureyoucanhavethekeys, Web Based
Jeff Skistad, my co-worker, recently wrote a blog entry about QR codes that caught my eye. After reading the blog and having somebody contact us asking if we could create QR codes from RPG it was everything I could do to restrain from figuring out how we could accomplish the task on IBMi.
Well, after a few hours of research and playing around I had a working example of creating QR codes on IBMi and decided to share it with the world by writing an article about it. You can check out the article here:
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/general/QR_codes_1/
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