Re: What happened to Test 972: IBM Certified Specialist - ILE RPG Programmer?

On 5/27/2010 7:59 PM, Simon Coulter wrote:

on various lists. Case in point being this one: how many AS/400,iSeries
System i, IBM i sites do you think might be in Australia and New
Zealand? How many Antipodean list members are there?

There may be a few lurkers and a few who only troll the archives but if
you guessed at the install base from the list activity you'd think there
were maybe 5 sites total down here.

Kia ora, Simon!

It makes one wonder how many IBM i workplaces actively discourage
developers from 'wasting time' on frivolities like the internet, mailing
lists and trade publications. These things take away time from coding,
after all.

It can be difficult to remember that a large number of IBM i workplaces
are one man outfits, running S36EE. The i might not be connected to the
internet (too dangerous) so applying what he's seen in a forum or
mailing list can be a chore.

In a less niche platform, as new people were to come on board, they
would bring their natural exposure to the internet with them, but how
many new IBM i programmers are there every year?

I'm going to make a point to forward at least one useful and interesting
midrange.com email a week to my co-workers. None of whom subscribe,
although one does get mailings from one of the trade pubs.
--buck