Ideas for which GUI or UI, PHP or What.. (Was: IBM i in the cloud (was social media))

From: Kelly Cookson I get my AARP card this coming February.

American Association of RPG Programmers?-Nathan

AARP? No, Association of Awesome RPG Programmers... I'm going with AMAC, or Generation America, or the United Seniors Association. I'm learning PHP, plan to go the whole gamut... Learning helps keep your mind sharp.. Now if I can just pull away from the screen and take more walks..

My shop has 70 percent old style Cobol (new style means being able to use CALL PROCEDURE haha). Two or three of the ones with the best business knowledge (from seniority) will be kind of ambivalent to learning new stuff. My sort-of-coach in the business end (reviews code for gotchas in the code base) said most of the guys didn't know what %parm was. I had to take it out. I adopt to shop standards so I took it out, although I think they can learn in one minute what it means if they came across it.

The company was considering alternatives to the present green-screen old-code based application they have for our part of company support. One was to change what we have, another was a 3rd party application that used JWalk. But then came a change in CIOs and other things and that was the end of that 3rd party.

It's all on hold though, and I think they'll come back at some point. I would like ammunition or comments one way or the other, in case they ask this sort-of new guy (veteran RPGLE programmer..)

Another team at the company has used JWalk to front-end, but it causes everybody to moan and groan and there was a bit of gnashing of teeth when we thought we might move in that direction...

Comments?

--Alan