Re: 'green screen' not sellable --> WE(?) are the problem

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> "IMHO, this attitude of "IBM i can only do green screen" comes from
> working with programmers who are 20 years behind the times and
> unwilling to try anything new.  Fire those people, they are holding
> you back"

ABSOLUTELY! I see it over and over and over. I simply stop dealing with 
these cretins. Eventually (hopefully soon) they will be fired from 
enough shops that they vanish and we'll get new people with drive, and 
ideas, and skills.

It's not an age thing that's merely one indicator. Heck some of the best 
educators in this space who teach the truly modern way are older than 
many of those who refuse to move out of the 1980s.

These are those of whom I wrote in my blog: "You are denting my passion."

>
> While there are some that are "unwilling to try anything new", I
> would say there are more that are "unable to try anything new.  I
> would blame this more on corporations that refuse to spend the time
> or money to let you learn how to do the new stuff..

While true(ISH) this is again normally because the I.T. manager in these 
shops is the anchor! EVEN IF they came from an IBM i (dare I say 
"AS/400"?) background and were at the TOP of their game and CURRENT with 
the architecture when they were promoted, they STOPPED PROGRESSING that 
same second.  What was current and best practice THEN suddenly became 
that for all time. (Yes Trevor I stole that from you. :-) )  This is the 
person in the best position to prod the company into moving forward but 
they don't see the need. They haven't progressed why should anyone else??


> as well as IBM for
> not providing a reasonably priced way for us to have a machine to do
> it on our own (and I know that last point has been beat to death so
> I won't climb on my soapbox).

<vendor>
Stop whining, It's YOUR Career. For $50 a month you can have access. For 
$100 you can have your own private partition. Many of you spend more 
than that on your Cable or Satellite service!
If your passion is:
Hiking you buy good shoes, yes?
Biking you buy good wheels, tires, and bikes, yes?
Cooking you buy good knives and pans, yes?
Fishing you buy good lures and poles and a BOAT, yes?
IBM i you get access to the new stuff, right?????
So shut up and invest in yourself already!! (Sorry I'm cranky today.)
</vendor>

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com  www.iDevCloud.com  www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 6/8/2015 1:15 PM, John R. Smith, Jr. wrote: