Article Archive

2018 Seiden Group In the News

• High Schools: The New Recruiting Grounds for IT Jobs
  IT Jungle, November 2018
• IBM i CIO Summit Features Db2 for i Briefing with IBM’s Scott Forstie
  MCPress Online, August 2018
• What’s Cooking with IBM i on GitHub?
  IT Jungle, May 2018
• Keep Your IBM i Baby, Not the Bathwater
  IT Jungle, May 2018
• Being Agile with IBM i in a Changing Business Climate
  IT Jungle, February 2018
• IBM i CIO Summit Includes Open Discussion with Steve Will
  MCPress Online, February 2018

2017 Seiden Group In the News

• VIDEO: With a Lotta Help from My i  performance by Ted Holt and Alan Seiden
  RPG & DB2 Summit, October 2017
• Interview with Alan Seiden
  Voices of the elePHPant, October 2017
• Alan Seiden Discusses Bringing the IBM i Message to CIOs
  iTalk with Tuohy, IBM Systems Magazine, September 2017
• CIO Summit Planned for IBM i Executives
  IT Jungle, August 2017
• IBM i CIO Summit Announced for October 2017
  MCPress Online, August 2017
• Enriching the IBM i Community with Open Source
  by Alan Seiden, MCPress Magazine, July 2017
• Tomorrowland: Optimism, Risk, and Preparation For IBM i App Dev 
  IT Jungle, June 2017
• Getting Offensive With The Legacy Label
  IT Jungle, April 2017
• 2017 IBM i Predictions: Take Three
  IT Jungle, February 2017
• Alan Seiden, Principal, Alan Seiden Consulting LLC
  IBM Systems Magazine, July 2016
• Alan Seiden on Development and Work-Work Balance
  iTalk with Tuohy, IBM Systems Magazine, September 2015

PHP

• Book Review: Advanced Guide to PHP on IBM i
• 10 Cool PHP Things You Can Run on Your System i
• Secure Web Programming Techniques on IBM i
• Create a Safe Environment for Your PHP Applications on IBM i (PDF format)
• Deploying PHP Open-Source Web Applications to the System i
• PHP Tips
• PHP: Zend for i5/OS (Alan consulted on IBM’s “Redbook” manual)
• PHP Delivers mail() on IBM System i
• Zend Brings PHP to IBM’s i5/OS
  (Alan interviewed Zend’s Andi Gutmans and Mike Pinette for this article)
• PHP, the Everywhere Web Language
  

IBM i (i5, iSeries, AS/400) Advanced Technology

• Talk to the Internet with cURL
• Qshell vs. PASE: When you tap the power of UNIX, use your shell of choice
• Be a Web Wiz (Apache URL Rewriting)
• Vive la Diff: Find differences between text files with this UNIX command
• Link Up with Qshell

Ergonomics at the Computer

• Arrange Your Workstation to Protect Yourself Against Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
• Protect Your Eyes Against Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS)
• Prevent Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) with Rest Breaks
• Step Away from the Computer! Use software to enforce rest breaks, preventing pain and injury

Career

• Rejuvenate your IT Career