Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly News: IBM, Red Hat and Cloud. Application Services Market growth Blockchain: Tracking Food Supply and Reducing payment disputes. Career: How watching baseball might help your career. Cloud: What is Cloud IaaS? Development: How Node.js might help your legacy RPG Development department. ERP: IBM i ERP Subscription Model for […]
Learning Opportunities for the RPG Developer
The more you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly News: Economic Indicators. A Fresche Approach to Modernization. Common Europe Congress 2019. Career: Do you have a Customer Centric Approach to your job? Development: Learning Python and the History of Node.js to date. Data: Three articles […]
Why the IBM i is a proven business system
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly News: IBM i innovation. The IBM i is a proven platform for the modern enterprise. AI: AI starts with Data. AI can speed up the learning process. Job openings: IBM i Applications Team Lead – RPG. Leadership: Value Chain and Value Stream Management. What you need to know. […]
RPG Developers: What Are You Waiting For?
An RPG Developer Starts a New Habit I spoke to an RPG Developer the other day. He spent his entire career working with RPG fixed format and SEU. The last several months he was given the opportunity to work with RPG free form and RDi. He made a point to use both of them daily. […]
Train RPG Developers with imPower Technologies
The smart (new) way to train RPG Developers There seems to be a lot of concern with how we are going to deal with the shortage of RPG Developers in the future. In reality, the solution is really not that difficult. Find individuals with natural talent. Then train them in RPG. Sounds simple enough. But, the […]
Bridge the RPG programmer skills gap with training
Is there an RPG programmer talent shortage or a skills gap? Do we think that we are the only ones challenged with a gap in available talent? No matter where you look there seems to be a shortage. It certainly makes for good headlines. Here are some of them: The STEM crisis: What the growing […]
The end of summer leads to new beginnings for RPG developers
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly It’s hard to believe it’s Labor Day weekend. We give thanks to all workers here in America. It’s because of you that we in the IBM i (AS/400) community have a lot of work to do. Here is what is going on this week. News: A big loss […]
Is the IBM i community ready for change?
Are RPG Developers are ready for a change? Some are. Some aren’t. And some are unsure. This is not isolated to the IBM i community. It’s just human nature. As in everything, there are those who don’t want to change, those who will wait to see who else is doing it and those who are […]
The IBM i is looking up in 2018
The IBM i is on the move We see a number of exciting things happening in the IBM i ecosystem in 2018 and beyond. There is a continued push towards the use of Open Source languages and frameworks such as Node.js. Companies like ARCAD (developer of DevOps solutions) and other major vendors in the IBM […]