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• Justin Porter — COMMON BoD Candidate 2012
  Editors note: The following is a post by guest author Justin Porter who is a candidate for the COMMON Board of Directors. COMMON has survived quite well through the financial crisis—in no small part due to the dedication of its members, volunteers and staff who wish to see COMMON continue providing top quality education into […]
  Justin Porter
• Why I Dislike Code Generators
  Those of you who follow the midrange.com lists probably are aware that I'm not a big fan of application code generators. This includes (but is not limited to) ... * Case Tools (AS/SET, Synon, etc) * EGL * SQL Pre-processors (RPG SQL, COBOL SQL, etc) * JSP (to a limited extent) * Various 3rd party application generators The reason is simple ... the code […]
  David Gibbs
• CAAC Bends IBM’s Ear
  This post is written by guest blogger Michelle August The CAAC (COMMON Americas Advisory Council) called snowy, icy Rochester home for three days in early December. They started off the meeting with a warm welcome from Dave Nelson and a Power Systems Update from Ian Jarman. This great start to the meeting set the tone […]
  Michelle August
• SOPA / PIPA Blackout
  Update 16-Jan-2012: Looks like the SOPA bill has been killed in the house, although the senate version is still alive.  We will still be observing the blackout on the 18th. Just a word of warning … on January 18th, between the hours of 8am and 8pm, the midrange.com mailing list archives will be observing a […]
  David Gibbs
• Perhaps I spoke too soon?
  At work I’ve been splitting my time between two projects … one project is IBM i based using RPG … the other is Windows/*nix based using Java. One of my gripes about the other project is that that some of the error messages we get are difficult to figure out because we don’t get enough […]
  David Gibbs