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Yes. 79 years old and I will admit that I am to programming as a kid is
to video games. I love doing it. Yes, retired but I take on projects
for fun and not much pay.
Yes, I understand and do HTML, .css, .json, and some .xml. I have set
up several sites on the iSeries, in the IFS and serve HTML reports that
way to provide a decent report archive and save paper. I just finished a
project to allow a user to drag & drop .txt files in the IFS. I do my
website with NetObjects Fusion (The license was a door prize at an IBM
user group years and years ago.)
Good question about learning the new stuff. Here is my answer: Yes, I
like learning the new stuff. There is lots and lots of new stuff every
day and I will never catch up; nor do I try to. It's finally dawned on
me that gearing up for 10 years from now is, for me, most likely a
flawed plan. Therefore I looked around and decided that there is
probably a niche for figuring out how to get the most from what we
already have.
That turns out to be, in my opinion, figuring out how to make 5250 truly
mouseable. Not try to adapt the old "Key a pile of data, hit Enter,
verify a dozen or more fields, display messages. Fix. Rinse & repeat".
I'd rather get as close as possible to field-at-a-time processing
instead of screen-at-a-time processing.
Frankly I am surprised at how much better this design paradigm works
with users and I am surprised at the bugs that exist and will never be
fixed.
My original goal with this thread was to find others working with the
enhanced features and work together to find work-arounds for the bugs.
On 6/24/2018 4:03 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
Out of curiosity are you looking to build apps for customers with the 5250 gui features or just learning for fun ?
I seem to recall a while back that you were semi-retired or retired or am I incorrect ?
I also seem to remember you were playing with HTML as well.
Why wouldn't you continue down the road of learning the new HTML and other technology, unless you're just playing with the 5250 gui stuff for fun.
Old dogs can learn new tricks. I'm learning new things daily.
Just curious.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e.richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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