WDSC Community
April 12, 2007
Recently Brian touched on the importance of an ecosystem (community) around a technology or product for its success. I couldn’t agree more with this statement.
Which is why I’m excited to see the growing number of WDSC experts outside of the WDSC development team (including both IBMers and non-IBMers). Having a pool of experts on a technology that can answer questions, provide education and consulting services, present at conferences and write articles goes a long way to contributing to the success of the technology.
Jef Sutherland’s upcoming webcast on WDSC Editing for RPG coding is an excellent proof point of this growing expertise. It shows we (as a community) have moved beyond the typical “Introduction to the RSE” sessions and are starting to provide more indepth sessions on specific features of the RSE.
Another example is the depth of some of the discussions on the midrange.com WDSC mailing list. Recently there was a discussion about how user defined actions are stored in XML files in the RemoteSystemsConnections project and how you could manually edit these files to quickly add new actions or copy them between workspaces.
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