Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[TAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

So true.  How many times have businesses made technology decisions based on
what someone knows and/or is comfortable with?  It may be nice for him/her
but not necessarily for the business.

Thanks,
Todd Allen
EDPS
Electronic Data Processing Services
tallen@xxxxxxxxxxxx



                                                                           
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> My whole take is that use the tools you are comfortable with.

I don't think that is a good mantra to lead with.  You should always
look to use the languages and operating systems that your employer has
built their business on and only change directions based on careful
consideration (i.e. a lot of research).  Otherwise every time you hire
a new person they will introduce a new language/framework into the
mix.  I've been the guilty party on this front.  Every once in awhile
I get a call from my previous employer asking me "how does that
Tomcat/Servlet/Java thing work that you put into our 100% RPG
environment?"

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't deny that. My whole take is that use the tools you are
comfortable
> with. A Ruby on Rails person could probably say the same thing as I have.
> For us, the web knowledge is ASP.NET, we won't be changing any time soon.
> Most business apps are in RPG now and new stuff is being created often in
> RPG.
>
> --
> Mike Wills
> http://mikewills.me
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Aaron Bartell
<aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> > But that needs to be put into perspective.  Mike, you weren't writing
> > RPG web apps those 10 years.  I will be the first to admit that
> > Microsoft has some of thee best software to get up and running quickly
> > with web stuff, but with only a few days of tinkering (even less these
> > days vs. 10 years ago) it is quite easy to get up and running with RPG
> > on the web.
> >
> > Aaron Bartell
> > http://mowyourlawn.com
> > http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Well said.  It's still about how you architect the app whether in RPG
or
> > anything else.
> > > Regards,
> > > Richard Schoen
> > > RJS Software Systems Inc.
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> > > ------------------------------
> > >
> > > message: 6
> > > date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:52:35 -0500
> > > from: Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i
> > >
> > > That would be a simple get data display data type thing. I would say
the
> > same thing though. I could write a simple ASP.NET app quicker than I
could
> > in RPG any day and I have 10 years of RPG under my belt and 4 years of a
> > project here and there in ASP.NET.
> > > I think I can say that because of Visual Studio and how MS has setup
the
> > ASP.NET tools. I can create a source file, drop a couple controls onto
the
> > page, pass in a table, and format the logic in quick fashion. This is
the
> > blessing (and curse) of ASP.NET. So on one hand you can do a real quick
> > CRUD app in a very short period of time. However, a better designed app
does
> > take more time and more care than that.
> > > --
> > > Mike Wills
> > > http://mikewills.me



 
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