RE: [WEB400] my poor (declining) SDA skills

["Mark A. Manske" <mmanske@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I too have been there, and worse,
my boss has asked for help on a rpgII program
he did not want to convert, just modify -
I am the tech weenie ; I had no clue, half the
op codes I wanted him to use, did not work,
and then - indicators, oh MY.

Though I do "cheat" alot more lately than I used to
when it comes to SDA by grabbing a similar looking
work of art and tweak it to my current needs.

Just wait until you get to V5R1 and start coding in free-format RPG,
you should see the deer in the head-light looks I get from the other
programmers around here - what a "feeling"!!

Mark


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From: web400-admin@midrange.com [mailto:web400-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Nathan M. Andelin
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:31 PM
To: web400@midrange.com
Subject: [WEB400] my poor (declining) SDA skills


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I fired-up Screen Design Aid last week.  I needed a new display file for a
small program.  I stared at the design screen for a moment.  My mind drew a
blank.  I couldn't remember exactly how to begin.  It was like bumping into
an old acquaintance and thinking "you look familiar, but who are you"?

At that moment, it came to me that MS FrontPage was more familiar to me than
SDA.  It was kind of strange.  In the past 13 years, I have used SDA perhaps
a thousand times to design hundreds of screens.  But lately, the majority of
my work has been with HTML and Web applications.

Has this transformation happened to anyone else?

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com

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