Aaron With Too Much Coffee

A hilarious (and quite good) You Tube video by Aaron. Somehow I missed this when Aaron originally posted the link on midrange.com last year.

Keyboard Shortcuts are Documented

Doing some more testing this morning and I stumbled across this in the online help (WDSC 7.0):

So the keyboard shortcuts are documented in WDSC! This will be handy to know.

A Lot of Stuff

I’m currently running some old testcases for the editor and I came across one that included these steps (while editing CMD source):

• Position your cursor at “(” and press Ctrl + Shift + M
• Cursor should reposition to the matching “)”

I knew we had a match function, but I had no idea it would match brackets too! So I had to try it with RPG and sure enough it works there too! Bottom line: there are a lot of features in the RSE, epecially the Remote Systems LPEX Editor. I’m really looking forward to reading the editing chapter that Nazmin is currently work on to see what else I’ve been missing out on : )

As for my progress on the book, I just finished up my big chapter which basically covers the Remote Systems view (connections, filters, working with libraries, objects and members, iSeries table view (which perhaps should be a separate chapter, but is closely related to the other stuff), and filter pools. I resisted putting a section on profiles, but the more I think about it the more I’m inclined to include one. Probably in a different “miscellaneous stuff” chapter. Now I’m onto the iSeries projects chapter.