Regular Expressions in RPG

One of the things that RPG isn’t particularly good at is string scanning & manipulation. Many other programming languages support using Regular Expressions (or regex, […]

Full Screen Windows 10 in MacOS Parallels

As a Mac user, I sometimes find my self needing to use Windows 10. To do this, I run it using the Parallels virtual machine […]

PCMLTOOLS

I’ve started a personal open source project. Something I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while. The project is PCMLTOOLS — utilities designed to […]

Don’t abandon unused domains

This is a general warning for anyone who owns or manages multiple internet domains. If you have ever used a domain name, and switched to […]

Back to Normal?

Illinois, and the majority of other states, are under mandatory “Stay at Home” or “Shelter in Place” orders. Here in Illinois the order is (currently) […]

Beware CHGCMDDFT

This is a general warning about using the CHGCMDDFT command to change the default value of command parameters for commands in QSYS. Why Not? There […]

Java and External Data Structures on IBM i

One of my favorite techniques for passing structured bulk data around is using datas queue’s with the format of the data defined in an external […]

Automatic Snapshots on Lightsail

The folks at Amazon Lightsail have added a new, much needed, feature: Automatic snapshots. Shapshots are a way of creating an exact backup of your […]

Multiple sites on a single server

Every now and then someone asks me how I’ve got blogs setup on my servers. As such, I’ve decided to create this post that documents […]

Lightsail Updates

I’ve been using Amazon’s Lightsail service for quite a while now and, in general, I’m quite pleased with it. There are, however, a few things […]