Jon Paris and Susan Gantner

Print This year being the 25th anniversary of the birth of our beloved IBM i, we thought it might be an appropriate time to get back to the topic of modernization. As those of you who have read any of our previous columns on this subject will know,…

What we think about MySQL The title of this article was our reaction when we heard MySQL was coming to IBM i. Actually, our reaction was much more strongly worded—we cleaned it up for publication! The DB2 database on our system is so robust, so…

A quick look at CGI_WRKDBF and Xataface In December 2008, we introduced you to the open-source PHP framework ATK. This month we thought we’d introduce you to two more tools that have recently caught our attention. CGI_WRKDBF The first is CGI_WRKDBF,…

PHP-built utility scripts provide more flexibility In “PHP Revisited,” we explained how PHP makes it really easy to do things like consume Web services but we haven’t touched on how the flexibility of the language makes it possible to do things that…

Using the open-source ATK framework could be a boon for i Web developers. Print We’d like to do something a little different and introduce you to some new software we think will interest i professionals involved in Web development. The ATK framework…

Can you modernize with Zend Bridge and PHP? In February, we blogged about the Zend 5250 Bridge announcement (“Zend Builds a Bridge”) and we thought it was time to show you how it works in practice. As we noted at the time, the Bridge isn’t a…

A look at the capabilities PHP open up on the IBM System i platform. Several things have happened since our initial article on PHP, so we thought we'd bring you a brief update along with another example of why we're so excited by the capabilities PHP…

This month we thought we'd take a quick look at PHP, the latest entry in the world of Web programming for the System i platform. We're excited about this new arrival as it helps to lower the "cost" of entering the world of the Web and moves the…