January 2009

• Chartering Your Path to Success - Minimize the anger and frustration associated with projects by chartering your project using a project charter and team charter.
• Will Learning PHP Enhance My Career? - Learning PHP can advance your career, but not in a vacuum. You also need to round out your skill set with a wealth of web technologies and web development tools, such as HTTP, HTML, CSS, XML, SMTP, web services, SOAP, REST, JSON, SQL, JavaScript, SSL, encryption, regular expressions, CVS or Subversion, editors, debuggers, IDEs, HTTP servers, and application servers.
• Industry Observer (January 2009) - RFID Ready or Not * Exploring Employment Options * The New Face of Web Services * More Than Just Cool Gadgets
• Spinning Rust - New web and cloud storage offerings are gaining traction. Are we ready for them and—more important—are they ready for us?
• f.y.iSystem (January 2009) -
• IBM Announcements (January 2009) -
• Top 10 IT Problems We Don't Have with IBM i - Chris identifies the top 10 IT problems that don’t phase shops relying on IBM i to run their businesses.
• A Fresh i: Brian May - Meet Brian May, a project lead at Garan, Inc., and a young programmer who is engrossed in all things YiPs.
• Hot New Products (January 2009) -
• Attention RPG Programmers: PHP Spoken Here - PHP may be a new language on the i, but it’s much easier to speak than many of the alternatives and thinking in it brings a slew of benefits
• Improve Your Technology Team - If you want a technology team that truly understands what your company does, you need to immerse these people in the company’s core business.
• DBMoto: Simplifying the Sport of Database Replication - HiT Software’s DBMoto offers a simple solution to the intricate sport of database replication.
• Danish Wholesaler Smartens Web Apps with BCD - When the largest independent tool wholesaler in Denmark needed a tune-up to bolster its web app development on the i, it added the latest version of BCD’s WebSmart ILE to its tool repertoire.
• IBM Systems Director 6.1: Next-Generation Management for Your Data Center - The drum roll you hear announces IBM Systems Director 6.1, bursting with next-generation systems management tools for your data center. Sit in the director’s chair and watch the best of the best in action.
• Retrieving Data with PHP - PHP lets you expand your horizons while retaining your investments in RPG and DB2 for i data. Of all the possibilities, the one you’re likely to need first is the ability to access existing DB2 for i data from PHP.
• Use C# to Create a Web Service Consumer Application - You can use Visual Studio 2008 and the Microsoft .NET Framework to quickly develop and test a web service consumer application created in C#. It’s one of the easiest connection techniques available.
• K.I.S.S. XML - By keeping it short and simple, you can quickly reformat the example Employee and Department Master tables and create a self-described exchange document to share with an external source. This article shows you how.
• Use a UDTF and SQL to Query XML Files - Extend DB2 UDB for System i with this handy user-defined table function (UDTF), which lets you use SQL queries to find XML data in the Integrated File System (IFS).
• Ant for WebSphere Administration - When you develop an application, tedious administrative duties take up more time than they have to. With Ant, you can consolidate many of those tasks into single button presses.
• Compare Large Files by Using Parity Bits - Do you have multiple systems with large files that are supposed to be identical throughout? Are those files staying up-to-date? Using parity bit counts, you can make sure your records remain in synch across all your systems without bogging them down.
• Zend's 5250 Bridge - With Zend’s 5250 Bridge API, you can put a dazzling GUI on your green-screen applications without having to rewrite existing 5250 code. What’s more, 5250 Bridge lets you use PHP to modernize your apps, and it doesn’t incur any interactive cost.
• PHP Frameworks - You can use PHP frameworks to make ease your development tasks and integrate advanced functionality into your web applications. Here’s how.
• Generate PDF Files Using Only i 6.1 - You don’t need to purchase additional software to create PDF documents from your applications running on IBM i—leave the heavy lifting to 6.1
• Tech Corner (January 2009) - Start Journaling Libraries in i 6.1: Fixing the Problems with QDFTJRN * Convert Data To and From Hexidecimal * Records Delimited by Tilde or Pipe in IFS * Detecting CL Command Use * Quick Security Checkup with the DSPSECA Command
• Dr. I Doctor (January 2009) - Dr. I Doctor explains how to eliminate common Internet performance impediments, and describes how to send emails programmatically from native IBM i.