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Open Source Starter Guide for IBM i Developers: i Object!
We’re all familiar with the concept of an object-based operating system like IBM i, but an object-oriented (OO) programming language is foreign to some. By Pete Helgren Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from chapter 5 of Open Source Starter Guide for IBM i Developers, by Pete Helgren. Oh, you might have tripped across it in some generic computer science class, but perhaps it was too long ago or you were groggy enough in class that that particular chapter has been forgotten.
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Data breaches cost surveyed companies $4.24 million per incident on average; highest in 17-year report history Adoption of AI, hybrid cloud, and zero trust approach lowered data breach costs IBM Security today announced the results of a global study which found that data breaches now cost surveyed companies $4.24 million per incident on average – the highest cost in the 17-year history of the report.
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Setting Up a Python-Db2 Development Environment, Part 1 The process of setting up an application development environment is frequently overlooked because the environment used is often dictated by the company a developer works for. By Roger Sanders Even developers who don’t work with an environment that is governed by their company may not have to do much to get started; they may only need to install their integrated development environment (IDE) of choice (such as Xcode or Visual Studio Code).
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With herds of IBM i developers seemingly prepared to head out to pasture in the near future, IBM Watson Talent might help point your enterprise to some fresh sources of programming expertise, among other benefits. Written by John Ghrist A recurring source of heartburn for IT directors at IBM i enterprises has been the impending retirement of a major chunk of the existing workforce with RPG knowledge.
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TechTip: A Primer to Bootstrap 4, Part 1 By Jan Jorgensen You sit down in your office and fold your hands behind your neck. You are very pleased with yourself. You have just finished writing an RPG CGI program that will display sales data, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to show the production figures for last week, and the order intake split on country areas. Everything now runs fine on the intranet, and users can see it all when they connect their laptops to the VPN.
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More Programming in Python Python has a bunch of built-in functions, and it also comes with a whole list of modules and classes that can be used to construct your programs. I introduce programming in Python here. In most cases, you will start by building functions, and those functions may, or may not, be combined into modules at some point. We’ll take it a step at a time. By Pete Helgren Editor's Note: This article is excerpted from chapter 9 of , by Pete Helgren.
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MkDocs, the dynamic static site generator, or how I built a website without writing any HTML. By Joe Pluta In my last article, I introduced MkDocs, a wonderful static site generator. Today I’m going to show you what I consider to be the most important feature of MkDocs: the dynamic debugging mode. But to get there, we have to build a page. Along the way, I’ll briefly present a few of the fundamental features of MkDocs, features that we’ll address in more detail later.
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File shares are what make the IFS, or part of the IFS, available for viewing or manipulation via the network. You use file shares when you want all users on the network to have access to something. Many organizations define file shares to allow users to map a drive and easily drag and drop documents to or retrieve them from a directory on IBM i.
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As artificial intelligence penetrates our daily lives, questions on trust and transparency arise. Without the right tools to manage, detect, and mitigate bias to what extent are we humans prepared to hand over control to AI systems for decision-making and taking actions? By Mark Simmonds Throughout history, some sectors of society have rejected automation and technology—partly because of the fear of “letting go” control to the machines.
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