Re: Web Enabling Applications

Michael,

yes - two days ago ;-)


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

BS. Scott responded in this thread twice in a row. I'm able to read them.


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Nice to know that Scott obviously sends out filtered mails that he

dosn't

want other to respond to


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Jim Cooper <

Jim.Cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Another well put Scott.


Jim Cooper
Program Coordinator
Lambton College
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Enabling Applications

Todd,

What I've discovered is that RPG is simply a better language for

writing

business rules and business logic than the others.

I agree with your assessment that it's often hard to find qualified

RPG

developers. That's not to say that it's hard to find RPG developers

--

but rather than most RPG developers on the job market have

out-of-date

skills, so are not "qualified." The reasons for this vary, but it's
mostly because too many businesses have this idea that RPG and IBM i

are

not capable (Which is completely untrue) and therefore delegate

modern

tasks to other platforms. This becomes self-fulfilling, because the
RPGers don't get real life work experience with modern work.

To combat that, you have to start somewhere... and one approach

that

has worked well for several shops that I've talked to is to hire PHP

or

C programmers, and then TEACH them RPG. Many of them, once they get
past the learning curve, are REALLY impressed by the RPG and IBM i
environment. The integrated platform with integrated database is a
positive boon for them. Being able to write business logic and

database

logic in RPG is something they enjoy, because it makes their job

easier

than attempting the same thing in languages like PHP or C.

(Especially

C!)

And they bring a fresh viewpoint to old shops, and their experience

with

modern development techniques comes along with them -- and the

results

are great.

So please don't be dismayed when you can't find RPG programmers...

just

hire a PHP or C programmer, and teach them. I think you'll be

pleased

with that.

However -- and this is a mistake I've seen too many times -- don't

try

to thrust them into old-fashioned ways of doing things, that will

turn

them off. Give them Rational Developer, not SEU/PDM. Have them

learn

and write apps in Free format code, with subprocedures and other

modular

techniques, and SQL for file access. Don't start them off with

legacy

stuff, or it will discourage them. (Though, probably down the road,
they'll have to learn the legacy stuff to maintain older applications

--

but don't start them there, or they'll get turned off of the

platform.)

-SK


On 12/7/2012 1:06 PM, Allen, Todd wrote:

I may be in the minority here but I'd shy away from using CGIDEV2

for

any sort of web development. I say minority on this list only.

The

percentage of all web developers that have used or heard of CGIDEV2
is probably less than .001%. We've found that RPG developers are
hard to find. RPG developers that have web experience are even
harder to find. If JSON is a requirement then I'd also be

concerned

about processing JSON data with RPG. There are plenty of libraries
out there for JSON processing but I don't know if you'll find one

for

RPG.

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