Dan Burger
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PHP Developer Chooses WebSmart to Build His ‘Scaffold’
April 22, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreCentral Semiconductor needed Web applications that its customers could access from desktops and mobile devices. The customers were engineers searching for semiconductor devices and the search needed to be fast and easy and the navigation smooth. “My goal is to give people a tool to find what they’re looking for quickly. If customers can find the product they’re looking for, hopefully they’ll order a sample and be happy with the product,” says Web developer Rob Binetti.
Binetti was hired by Central Semiconductor to lead the Web development efforts. He was an experienced PHP Web developer who had worked with RPG-based
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PHP Developer Chooses WebSmart to Build His ‘Scaffold’
April 22, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreCentral Semiconductor needed Web applications that its customers could access from desktops and mobile devices. The customers were engineers searching for semiconductor devices and the search needed to be fast and easy and the navigation smooth. “My goal is to give people a tool to find what they’re looking for quickly. If customers can find the product they’re looking for, hopefully they’ll order a sample and be happy with the product,” says Web developer Rob Binetti.
Binetti was hired by Central Semiconductor to lead the Web development efforts. He was an experienced PHP Web developer who had worked with RPG-based
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IBM i TR8, Database Driven
April 21, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreThe TR8 updates for IBM i 7.1, announced last week and available June 6, were once again stacked with DB2 for i appropriations. That’s good news for the growing number of SQL advocates in the IBM midrange community. If you are not yet onboard with SQL, for data access and/or data definition, you are falling behind in modern skills, tooling, and programming framework. This kind of stuff is leading the way in IBM’s Technology Refresh program.
There are more than a couple of good reasons for this. One is that SQL fits into modern, multi-platform data access. Another is the
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Java On IBM i 7.1 Brings JVM Migrations
April 21, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreAs the announcement of IBM i 7.2 dawns, the introduction of IBM i 7.1 has its four-year anniversary. Although IBM guards its estimates of companies that have moved to 7.1, it is an optimistic guess that half of the IBM i installed base has made that move. How many of the 7.1 shops are housing Javaheads is also unspoken. But 7.1 was a milestone for Java developers because the Classic Java Virtual Machine was no longer supported.
That was not a big deal then. But time flies and here we are four years down the road. Java shops have moved
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SAP Continues To Soar In The First Quarter
April 21, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreSAP‘s star continues to shine brightly after the company’s first quarter financial results revealed respectable revenue growth, while extending cloud successes and building opportune partnerships. All things considered, this was another good report for the German software giant and it occurred during what is traditionally the company’s lightest quarter.
HANA, the in-memory database that serves as the keystone in SAP’s cloud-heavy future, once again is given heaps of credit. What it has done so far, however, pales in comparison to the expectations. For the present, HANA is being lauded for simplifying and improving the company’s flagship ERP system Business
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Life In Javaland
April 14, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreNot every business problem is solved by the cloud or managed service providers or social media. That’s just like saying not all IBM i application development is dependent on a single language. Both statements are more true than false, but as has often been pointed out to me, each case is different. However, the commonalities are still to be found despite the ever present differences of opinion. How about application development from the Java point of view? Is it better or just different?
Last week I talked with Paul Holm about Java development and how he would describe the typical
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More IBM Job Losses Expected This Week
April 14, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreIBM is sharpening the knife and plans to slice additional jobs as soon as next week, according to Lee Conrad, who has been organizing the Alliance@IBM local chapter of the Communications Workers of America union for decades.
As of Friday evening, Conrad estimated 500 employees at the Burlington, Vermont, chip plant would be terminated beginning April 14 or 15. These job losses have been expected since a report in February. Conrad was also expecting IBM job losses in New York to hit home with 250 employees this week. That number allows IBM to stay beneath the level that triggers the
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Education Foundation Airlifts Students To COMMON
April 14, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreEducation has been the traditional pathway to opportunity, but this pathway doesn’t begin and end in classrooms. It’s more than classrooms. It’s more than textbooks and homework and tests. As many in the IT profession have discovered, the connection between education and career is enhanced by being part of a community. In the IBM i community, the COMMON user group plays an important role in career development through education. And the connection between education and career begins with a separate organization called the COMMON Education Foundation (CEF).
Bringing IT students to the COMMON Annual Meeting and Exposition is one of
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What Works For Women In IT
April 7, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreObstacles and solutions are a large part of the IT professional’s career choice. Organizations assemble IT staffs to solve business problems. Traditionally, it’s been a man’s world, with women in a decidedly minority role. The IBM midrange community is no different. But last month at the Wisconsin Midrange Computing Professionals Association Technical Conference, a session called Women in IT put the gender topic in a new light.
The role of women in IT is changing. And it’s not changing because we’ve all sat around and waited for change to happen on its own accord. It’s changing because there are people
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Investment In Skills Lacks Incentives
April 7, 2014 Dan Burger
… Read moreIBM‘s Global Skills Initiative, a plan to transition the training and education associated with IBM hardware and software to a select group of IBM business partners, was launched last July with four partners and a goal of tripling the number of people receiving IBM training by the end of 2015. Since that time, the global rollout has one geography, Latin America, that is yet to be onboard, and the original four partners, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, Global Knowledge, and LearnQuest, has grown to five with the addition of Ingram Micro. IBM only added Ingram Micro