RPG Café now open
Posted: November 21, 2008 Filed under: Dave Dykstal, EGL, IBM i, RDi, RPG, System i Leave a comment »The RPG Café is now open for business. Modeled on the EGL Café and located in the same general area, the RPG Café provides a place for the RPG community to gather and share experiences and serve (we hope) as a single point of departure for news about RPG and related tools. There you’ll not only find RPG alone, but RDi, EGL and their relations.
As a result, this blog is moving, lock, stock, and barrel over to our new home. The posts and advice that are here will remain here, but new posts will be on the new blog.
Join us over there!
Dave Dykstal
Alpha-Bytes Fortified
Posted: March 29, 2008 Filed under: Abe Batthish, COBOL, EGL, George Farr, RBD, RDi, RPG, System i | Tags: COBOL, development, EGL, RBD, RDi, RPG, System i 2 Comments »Great feature article by George Farr in the April edition of SystemiNEWS that goes over the new host and client application development tools line up and their latest features
(update: changed links to point to public article)
Survival of a Programming Language
Posted: April 13, 2007 Filed under: Brian Farn, Easy of use, RPG 3 Comments »As I awoke this morning, I cast my gaze onto a set of pleated curtains and came to realize that I was looking at an array of pleats. As an array is a programming concept, I started pondering why our children are not given lessons about stacks, queues, lists, and hierarchical trees, how to recognize them in the world that surrounds them, and how to use them to organize their lives. Are these not as important as the different types of simple machines, such as levers, wheels, axles, and pulleys? And if our children are aware of these concepts, wouldn’t they expect to find them in a programming language?
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The Salvation of RPG
Posted: April 5, 2007 Filed under: Brian Farn, Easy of use, iSeries, RPG, System i 6 Comments »The other day while watching a Mac versus PC advertisement, I was reminded of other historical comparisons such as Betamax versus VHS and OS/2 versus Windows. Today we have their equivalents such as PS3 versus XBox, Blue-ray versus HD DVD, and the list goes on. For each technology or product, its success depends on the growth of an ecosystem and an entire industry built around a set of supporting products. One only has to look at the phenomenal number of accessories that have been created for the iPod. Whenever a person chooses one product over another, that person buys into a particular ecosystem and is limited to purchasing items that are compatible with it. Therefore the availability, cost and potential value of a system is weighed against those of other systems. So what about the System i and RPG?
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