Sounds like a book opportunity too - Kevin from Zend,
are you listening? ;-)
Crikey!! You want me to write ANOTHER one? :-)
Kevin Schroeder
Technology Evangelist
Zend Technologies, Ltd.
www.zend.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:43 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: [WEB400] RPG CGI for PHP programmers
The past couple years I have been looking for ways to allow RPG shops to
thrive (not just survive). In conversation with Richard Milone
(CNXCorp.com, owner/author of Valence - a RPG+ExtJS solution) he
mentioned
that they train existing web developers in other languages to learn
Valence
vs. the potentially harder approach of training an RPG programmer in the
same tooling (I think it isn't as much about ability but instead
willingness
to jump into the unknown)
I wonder if we should start page on the wiki.midrange.com site that
details
how a PHP programmer could make the transition to RPG+CGI? There are
some
"interesting" parts of RPG that they would have to watch out for (i.e.
Open
Data Paths, Activation Groups) but I think in the end the environment
could
be taught in less than a month. I am not saying they would understand
how
to admin an IBM i, but at one month they could be fairly fluent in
creating
RPG+CGI apps because they don't have the learning curve of
HTML+CSS+Javascript+CGI+browercomplexity.
Sounds like a book opportunity too - Kevin from Zend, are you listening?
;-)
Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
midrange.com
