Aaron,
A year ago I was doubtful about the direction you were going with RPGUI, but
I've since come around to see value in it. These sample applets with Sencha
clients interacting with RPG servers do add a new perspective to IBM i Web
development. Thanks for sharing.
Yesterday at our local user group meeting, one of my neighbors, Keith Day shared
his experience with CGIDEV2. He's a developer for Vision Solutions. He wrote a
native IBM i WIKI that over a period of years grew to contain over 30,000
searchable documents. They also use Turnover internally for change management,
and use of the WIKI took off after he wrote a crawler to harvest data from
Turnover and publish it as WIKI formatted documents. The WIKI provides Google
like search and a document format that people like. That got the wheels
spinning in my head about other types of data that could potentially be
harvested, formatted, and published in a WIKI. Keith is currently working on an
updated version which he plans on releasing as an open-source product in January
at www.appsoni.com. I think it will be worth taking a look at.
I also just became acquainted with several developers from www.nuvek.com who
have adopted RPG and the Renaissance framework from www.coraltree.co.uk. It's
good to hear of new people doing new development under IBM i.
-Nathan
----- Original Message ----
From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, November 10, 2010 4:00:39 PM
Subject: [WEB400] Social media and RPG
So I am dipping my toes into the social media arena with RPG. Here is an
article that just went live:
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/enewsletterexclusive/35121p1.aspx
I mentioned it two weeks ago in this forum so I thought I would follow-up
with the URL.
Why did I create such a silly thing that already exists in a number of
forms? Well, I am trying to get the IBM i more publicity and prove to IBM
that they should continue to invest in RPG and do so on a more frequent
basis. Not only that but I am also trying to convince groups within IBM to
invest in getting "IBM i in the cloud" so geeks like me can run personal
websites (or side businesses, or start a new business) easily on IBM i with
low cost. I see that Chris Maxcer is also posting on this topic in his
latest blog entry:
http://blogs.systeminetwork.com/isnblogs/maxedout/2010/11/ibm_i_in_the_clouds.html
One thing that IBM has asked me (I submitted a formal requirement for IBM i
in the cloud to through the IBM ISV Advisory Council) is whether there are
more people out there that are wanting this.
Would you pay $65/month for a hosted IBM i on the latest version of the OS
with all of the compilers and DB2? Btw, $65 is the going rate to have a
virtual instance of an OS and that is what I believe IBM should shoot for.
Aaron Bartell
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog/
midrange.com
