http://croixonline.com/techblog articles and tips on technology, iSeries, and now Macs! Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:15:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally, after a few months of thinking of about it, my wife and I decided to switch to Macs from -- no not Windows -- but from Linux. We actually switched way back in April, but it's only now that I've had time to write about it. We are ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2007/10/03/switching-to-macs/ I've read about it. I've heard people talk about it. But I never thought that it would ever happen to me. This website doesn't really get too many hits. So it's really surprising that my website got defaced -- not once, but twice! I mean, these happened in a span of ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2007/01/30/hacking-victim/ Way (way, way, way) back when I was in elementary school, we had to remember all these acronyms for our social studies class. Most of these acronyms had to do with United Nations (UN) organizations. These included UNESCO, WHO, and IMF. I couldn't really appreciate all that remembering. I thought ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2006/06/16/acronyms-101-and-growing/ Looking back three years ago, I never thought I would be able to it. Microsoft products were an essential part of my software requirements. But of course except for operating system which came with the PC, the MS Office installation was something that I wasn't really proud of. The same ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2006/06/01/legal-computing/ Many of my colleagues have asked me what they should learn in addition to their RPG/400 skills. I always tell them that they should take time to learn and practice ILE RPG particularly the new language features like /free. But if they are looking for a challenge, I always say that ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2006/05/13/upgrading-skills/ I have been in the IT industry here in the Philippines for nearly 10 years now. Most, if not all, of my career was centered on the AS/400 (a.k.a. iSeries and now System i5). During those 10 years, I have seen the development of the iSeries particularly the ILE RPG ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2006/05/01/modernization-resistance/ There was this one time that I was at a client site doing some programming work. I noticed that one of the system operators was removing and then re-inserting a cartridge from the AS/400's tape drive. He would walk back to the main console and type something. Shaking his head ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2005/12/14/iseries-blunders-part-iii/ Have you ever worked on two programs at the same time? You are coding this current requirement when a user comes up to you from behind and blurts out, "Can you fix this? We just need an additional column on the report. My boss needed it yesterday." Sound familiar? Knowing ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2005/08/22/iseries-blunders-part-ii/ Since this is my first article, I decided to look back at my career. Starting out in 1996 with a small IT company, I was a fresh graduate and like other graduates, I had no idea what an AS/400 (which is what they called the iSeries back then) was. Naturally, ... http://croixonline.com/techblog/2005/08/20/newbie-blunders-part-i/