Re: 5250 programmer to web programmer

[John Rusling <jrusling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Buck,

We have 3 web developers and 3 rpg programmers and what you described
(below) seemed to be happening here, but . . (over time)

I downloaded cgidev2 and begin to tinker a little, installed any RPG
articles on cgidev2 and ajax and showed them to my boss.  I took some
of my time (and a little company time) and got a simple program
working (using cgidev2), that accepted input and had some radio buttons
and a submit button that emailed the output as a csv attachment to
the user.

Finally this fall I got handed a 'sanctioned' project, that I can do.
(on 'company' time :-)
In fact, my rpg co-worker got him a 'sanctioned' PHP project as well.
(talking 800+ hours type projects)

Now, if only I could spend as much time on the project as I do on support, sigh..

My 2 cents, don't give up.

John B
(html & javascript beginner)

Ps; I should mention, these projects are such that they don't need to tie-in
to pre-existing web applications which are of a cold fusion/VB flavor.
They are of a stand alone application nature.


> I always thought of the problem of web experience as a bootstrapping
> issue. How do I get web experience if the business specifically gives
> web experience to the web team?