Re: Tutorial on RDP i Projects ?

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At that time Phil was doing a lot of traveling as was I and I used it extensively for that purpose. These days I use projects more as a convenience to enable me to have a "kit" of samples available on my laptop that by changing the server and library properties I can easily push onto a client's system, while not having to remember to pull down any updates I may make to them on site.

Biggest problem I had with projects was that it enforces a one library model, which made it impractical for at least part of its intended purpose for many people. I suspect that that had a lot to do with folks not adopting it.

But I agree with Joe - these days communications capabilities are so ubiquitous that it is needed less and less often.

Mind you - I'd still like IBM to publish the dang specification for the cached file layouts so that I could make edits to files etc. and still use verify on those occasions when I am not connected. But I've been asking for that since the days of Code/400 so I'm not holding my breath! I had part of it worked out for WDSC but it seemed to change again with RDi.

 
Jon Paris
Partner400.com

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On May 22, 2011, at 1:00 PM, wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> The idea was that 
> developers who spent significant time disconnected, say on planes and 
> such, could download complete working environments where they could 
> write code and and basically bench-check it and then later upload it to 
> the server for actual compilation and testing.