June 3, 2020 Welcome! In my COVID-19 spare time, I’ve decided to re-do my webpage and do some blogging. I hope you’ll find something useful here. Please bear with me as I get used to WordPress. Categories Blog
September 14, 2020 If all you have is a hammer… If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Abraham Maslow, “The Psychology of Science”, 1966 Categories Programming Languages/Thoughts and Observations Comments: 0
September 12, 2020 The Builders This poem by Longfellow has always been one of my favorites. It seems to sum up my philosophy of programming pretty well. Categories Poetry/Thoughts and Observations Comments: 0
September 12, 2020 Push and Pop Library List Commands A long time ago, in the S/38 days (mid 80’s), I had a need to save my current library list, do some work, then restore it. I wrote two commands to accomplish this using a stack. One of the often-overlooked strengths of the i is that old and useful code doesn’t need to be discarded, but can continue to serve... Categories CLLE/Commands/Utilities Comments: 0
September 11, 2020 My IBMi Utilities Over the years (decades), I have written a fair few little utility programs, which I plan to collect and make available in a Git Repository. Categories RPG/Utilities Comments: 0
September 10, 2020 Adding Sensors to the IBM i using RPG While I am currently under-employed due to the COVID Situation, I’ve decided to work on some personal projects and share them. Since this will mean I don’t have an employer’s infrastructure to work on, I’ll need to roll my own. Here’s how I’m going about it. For my first project, I’m going to interface some sensors to an IBM i. Categories RESTful Web Services/RPG/Sensors Comment: 1
June 3, 2020 RPG and PHP A side-by-side example of a simple maintenance program in RPG and PHP Categories PHP/RPG Comments: 0
