Re: Long time RPGer needs help getting started in new methods

Blair:

I share your frustration with trying to figure out what to do next. 

If you look at my website "on an iSeries" I can show you where the handouts 
from the Northeastern iSeries users groups training conference are. 

I am working on doing some Dot Net C# front end work right now per training. 
Will be willing to talk to you off line about this. 

What I believe we need to do as a group is put together some true ABCDEFGHIGH 
steps of how to exactly do everything.

Not all of us are as smart as the people who post on this  site. And there are 
some really smart folks out there. But if we want to save the iSeries platform 
all of us have to be able to show the companies we might work or contract for 
--- why the iSeries is better than more PC's.  

Here is an example of some VB.Net connecting into the iSeries at the community 
college where we have two iSeries that are for the most part sitting around 
doing nothing. 

http://144.162.90.78/default.aspx

Actually this is the IP address to the Windows Card hooked to the iSeries. 

Right now the actual iSeries seems to need its server restarted. Will work on 
that. 

But my webpage is http://144.162.90.48/

The fact my webpage is hanging off port 80 shows everyone how much or little 
this machine is used.

Here is an idea. One can sign up for a course at El Centro College in Dallas, 
TX for $144.00 if you are a Dallas County resident. Most everyone on this site 
is out of state. But we have two iSeries to play with.  Out of state tuition is 
probably like $250.  But where else could we put together information to share 
and learn from without our individual companies complaining???

Maybe Jon Paris, Robert Cozzi, etc might have their own iSeries to play with  
but most of us do not. 

What companies and people want to see is the steps that Blair is talking about. 
Not come try to reinvent the wheel. What I find is folks who are doing WDSC and 
have figured it out have no time to show others. 

My wife is a doctor so she lets me play at claiming I am a contractor:-) Well I 
work about three to four months a year. Play on the iSeries the rest of the 
time when I am not running our son to hockey games and tourny's. Getting our 
bottoms kicked this week in a tourney, but that is another long story. 

But who else has 15 GIG of hockey video of their son on a platform paid for by 
a college?????

So Blair if you want to talk off line I am open. Otherwise I would be willing 
to be the coordinator to us putting together usable examples of web frontend 
products for the iSeries. 

Thomas




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