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The Austin Challenge!

Bummer if you are not here in Austin for the Common Annual Conference.  Perhaps you have heard of ‘Austin City Limits’ a program that showcases Austin’s music and night life (its all true!) Or maybe you have heard of that … Continue reading

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Common Schedule Organizer 2013

Just in the nick of time, the Common Schedule Organizer, a free mobile app for Android, is now available!  There isn’t much new functionality (always willing to take suggestions) but it has been updated with the latest Phonegap libraries and … Continue reading

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Rational comes through

Or maybe it was just IBM….but in any case I would be remiss if I didn’t post that after multiple emails and phone calls my friends at IBM/Rational found a way to sort through the licensing, notices and documentation and … Continue reading

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More (ir)-Rationality

I love Rational tools but as I mentioned to my IBM sales representative “I am beginning to suspect that the Rational Marketing team has never left the 60’s and is still “tripping” when they decide to put their pricing together.  … Continue reading

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Mobile application development and IBM i (Part four) – Mobilize me!

So we have this great little 5250 application which is now just an ugly web application.  Truth is, this thing is so lightweight that as a web application, it is pretty snappy.  But, not ALL applications are going to be … Continue reading

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Mobile application development and IBM i (Part three) – To the web!

So a lengthy delay in getting to the “webby” part of this post due to the holiday distractions.  This new post should, however, get you going again and get the creative juices going. When last we met I walked through … Continue reading

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Mobile application development and IBM i (part Deux)

Running a little later on this second post because I had to write a 5250 green screen version of our timeclock punch program.  Like most new things I do, I try to actually learn something new when I go forward … Continue reading

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Mobile application development and IBM i (part 1)

This is part one of a XX part series on mobile application development for IBM i.  I say XX since I really have no idea of how many parts it will take to make it whole. I’ll just keep going … Continue reading

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Glassfish on IBM i

I am a *little* biased in that I think  IBM i on Power is the greatest server platform on the planet but you really can’t blame me since it seems that it can run just about any app you can … Continue reading

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Life with Liferay

Summer is long gone and fall is fading fast, so what happened to me?  Been deep into a project (pro bono, alas) using LifeRay portal.  LifeRay  is an Open Source Portal which is pretty cool. The Open Source version has … Continue reading

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