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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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Summer fun

It’s summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime….. Right!  Time for fun in the sun!  Given the time lapse since my last post, you’d think that I had gone on vacation.  Not so!  I have been busy, mostly with some challenging projects … Continue reading

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IBM Rational is Irrational – Call a SWMA…

Before I begin this rant, let me say that IBM, the IBM I grew up with, has been an amazing company to have a developer relationship with.  I have said it before and I’ll say it again, nobody does support … Continue reading

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One more time with Asterisk

A long while ago, maybe 4 years ago, I installed Asterisk, an open source voice mail and call management system.  It is a little bit of overkill for a small office like mine and although I also host my home … Continue reading

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The Day(s) the Earth Stood Still

No.  It isn’t a reference to the 1951 science fiction movie, it is a reference to last Friday when my Internet connection slowed to a crawl and despite the best efforts of Comcast, I continued to experience outages and slowness.  … Continue reading

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Tracking the time

I have kind of lost track of time.   Christmas-New Years tends to be a time when I ‘play’ a bit with new technologies and have a chance to try things on for size.  Alas, work has prevented me from playing!  … Continue reading

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