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Uber - an alternative taxi cab service is ubergood
So, my trusty old work horse (Herman the Honda) starter motor has been failing for a few months now, I've known it was on the way out but have been hoping that it would make it past christmas. Sadly,...
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Writing RPG program code using SEU getting error - "The keyword is not...
Why doesnt SEU let me enter the HANDLER keyword to my F-SPECS in RPG?Because, SEU is a code editing program that was designed decades ago (it sounds *really* old if you say it like that) and isn't...
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Jibbers Crabst - convert to Crustaceanity
The oatmeal is one of my favourite online distractions.Matt Inman, the author of the aforementioned comic brilliance, recently gave a speach at BAHFest West 2014 where he presented an alternate theory...
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#JeSuisCharlie - I stand with Charlie Hebdo
Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Four of the magazine's well-known cartoonists, including its...
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What is a webservice and how does it work on an AS400, iSeries or IBM i Server?
Here is a question frequently asked in IBM i programming forums:How do I write (an IBM-i program) RPG, to talk to the internet and receive or send parms to a website or webservice? For example, how can...
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Katy Perry tweeted my youtube video
Katy Perry... PHWOAR! ;)This antipodean beauty is working on her performance for the American Superbowl half-time show on February 1st 2015. How does she get inspiration? Well, it looks like she...
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Upgrade Drupal 6 to 7 - Part1 Using MIGRATE and UBERCART
Las month my cousin, drumming demi-god Rob Litten asked me to help him upgrade his website. He has been running a very succesful online drumming sensation called Drums The Word for a few years now....
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Upgrade Drupal 6 to 7 - Part2 Setup Drupal 7 website empty and ready to receive
(follow on article from http://www.nicklitten.com/blog/upgrade-drupal-6-7-part1-using-migrate-an...)We are not focussed on a running an upgrde here, instead we are going to create a clean Drupal7...
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Upgrade Drupal 6 to 7 - Part3 Migrate ubercart from Drupal6 to Drupal 7 in...
(follow on article from http://www.nicklitten.com/blog/upgrade-drupal-6-7-part2-setup-drupal-7-w...)Lets review what we have done: We have cleaned up the old Drupal 6 website to make it as minimal,...
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Beer Fridge/400
IBM AS400 eServer and I-SERIES whirring error free for the last ten years.Seriously, my two machines have been running fairly continously except when they have been loaded into moving trucks to migrate...
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How to fix VPN problem after Win8.1 update? It's the same as Windows10 just...
Bloody VPN is giving me a headache!Microsoft released an update to Win8.1 this week -- which has screwed my Cisco VPN connection. Again. I thought it was only my Win10 laptop that was hating Cisco VPN...
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It's easy to upgrade AS400 RPG/400 to modern web-enabled IBM i RPGLE... Honest!
RPG Code Modernization made simpleor a tale of taking old crusty gray haired legacy RPG and making it modern rich and vibrant -- or is that over playing it too much? ;)The more I play with the latest...
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Start Stop System21 Background Jobs (WHSE, GL, IN, OE - BACK3)
This is just a memory jogger for me and while I was typing this in my notes I realized that someone else may have asked the same question: "How do I see the status of the System 21 (JBA/GEAC/INFOR)...
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IBM i Error Message of the day - CEE3201
Yesterday, I wrote a little SQLRPGLE web-service program to retrieve Picking details from System21 Warehousing. Days like this I really enjoy my job. Writing new programs in RPG is just plain good old...
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Display, View, Debug IBM i Data Queues
Data Queues are a common object type in many applications on IBM i Systems: They offer an easy way to queue up data to be read and processed. Easy to load, easy to read and an easy way to handle...
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You gotta get GIT - change management for RPGLE via the IFS
Thanks to Mr Aaron Bartell (of Krengel Technologies) for this excellent article on using GIT for controlling source code changes on IBM i.I've been doing this for a while on source code for PROJEX4i...
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AS400 Client Access is dead - long live IBM i Access!
Ask any AS400 programmer, iSeries Developer or IBM i Nerd and they will all tell you that good old "Client Access" is a pain in the arse!Client Access was introduced back in the hazy 1990s on the old...
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Website Cleanup - Delete Drupal Users who have no ubercart orders
Migrating Cousin Rob's www.DRUMSTHEWORD.com website from his 6 year old Drupal6 website to a new (hopefully sexier) Wordpress4 website has meant a lot fo data cleansing before golive. Before we get any...
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Drums The Word - Website Version Two Point Oh!
Over at DRUMS THE WORD a new kid is on the block; the new kid is the old kid, but with a new coat on. The King is dead so long live the King! Rob and I have been working together over the last six...
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Webservices and RPGLE - Converting Character to Numeric
I'm in the final stages of a fun project writing web-services to interface INFOR System21 (on an IBM i aka AS400) with ACSIS Visitrack (on Windows Server), we are consuming (receiving) and serving...
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