This past October I had the pleasure of collaborating musically with Ted Holt at the RPG & DB2 Summit. Ted is not only a seasoned IBM i programmer, mastermind behind IT Jungle’s Guru column, and a speaker at many conferences, but also a musician who plays the ukulele, the banjo, the piano, and who knows what else.
Ted traditionally closes the Summit with an original IBM i rendition of a classic song. For this Summit I suggested that he adapt The Beatles’ With a Little Help from My Friends. Ted wrote the lyrics for, and invited me to help lead the group in, With a Lot of Help from My i.
Enjoy the video and lyrics below!
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Steve Will Discusses IBM i Strategy
/0 Comments/in CIO Strategy /by Alan SeidenSteve Will discusses IBM i strategy
We recently hosted a day of strategy discussions for IT executives at Seiden Group’s CIO Summit in Dallas. Special guest Steve Will, Chief Architect of IBM i, joined the group to share his direction for the platform.
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Installing Composer on IBM i
/0 Comments/in PHP /by Stephanie RabbaniComposer automatically installs or updates required components, known as dependencies, and any others required by those initial components. The required components are defined by the developer in an easy-to-read JSON-formatted text file.
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GitHub — A Collaboration Tool for Developers
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IBM i Super Hero Revealed
/0 Comments/in Announcements, Honors /by Stephanie RabbaniIt’s not always easy to spot a Clark Kent in our midst. Case in point . . . have you ever seen Alan Seiden without his glasses?
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Salesforce talks to IBM i and PHP: suggestions for successful integration
/0 Comments/in CIO Strategy /by Alan SeidenHere are a couple of suggestions from Seiden Group’s IBM i and cloud integration specialists.
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Using Git on IBM i (with video review)
/0 Comments/in IBM i, Open Source, Web development /by Alan SeidenThe Git trend makes perfect sense as IBM i teams adopt languages such as PHP, Javascript, and Python to develop web user interfaces, APIs, and other functionality. That said, Git also supports the traditional IBM i language, RPG.
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Resources for Learning Git
/0 Comments/in Open Source /by Stephanie RabbaniFast, popular, and open source, Git can be hosted on varied platforms, such as cloud-based repositories (Github, Bitbucket), internal servers (GitLab), and on our trusty IBM i servers.
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With a Lot of Help from My i
/0 Comments/in Events, IBM i /by Alan SeidenTed traditionally closes the Summit with an original IBM i rendition of a classic song. For this Summit I suggested that he adapt The Beatles’ With a Little Help from My Friends. Ted wrote the lyrics for, and invited me to help lead the group in, With a Lot of Help from My i.
Enjoy the video and lyrics below!
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Add apachectl to IBM i for Controlling Apache Web Instances
/0 Comments/in IBM i, Open Source, PHP /by Joshua HallDevelopers coming from a non-IBM i background know how to run the apachectl command to start, restart, and end an Apache web server instance. Instead of apachectl, however, IBM i provides a web-based graphical interface and the commands STRTCPSVR and ENDTCPSVR (be sure to prompt those for parameters using F4).
To supply the “missing” apachectl command for IBM i, I have written a BASH shell script that simulates apachectl on IBM i.
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Steph’s Sanity Checks for Programmers
/0 Comments/in PHP /by Stephanie RabbaniI’ve been there. My Seiden Group colleagues have taken to calling me their “CTO” (Chief Troubleshooting Officer), for my debugging skills.
Before you wear yourself out seeking obscure bugs, try these sanity checks:
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