I have been on a programming tear and have had little time for anything else. Continuing to work to the finish line on ASAAP but there seems to always be one more tweak that leads to a weeks worth of work. I am still searching for the holy grail of CRUD frameworks (no luck so far) but I have been impressed with jqGrid when it comes to inline editing of “line” records (multiple occurrences of same records for the same entity…think of invoice lines and you get the picture). Actually my jqGrid stuff is what has preoccupied me for the past weeks. Still, it hasn’t been as productive as I had hoped. I still have weeks of work. Shooting for the end of the calendar year to finish this stuff.
A couple of other things. IzPack looks like a great packaging and deployment tool. It’s open source and easy to use. I am going to look into using it as a deployment tool for my IBM i applications. Probably some work there. Also, some renewed interest lately in tn5250j indicates 5250 green screen applications aren’t dead yet. A tn3812 printer application would be great as well but until my ship comes in, and that won’t happen soon in this economy, I’ll be focusing on revenue generating applications. Once exception will be updating my RRE program (RPG Report Generator) to support iText and Birt reporting. I am developing them so I can use them in my Common presentation in May 2010.
That’s it for now. The blog is still alive. I am still alive. I just have to work through my endless backlog of commitments.