IBM i News in Review: August 7 - 14

ITJungle:

• IBM i Job Market: Not All Doom and Gloom
  By: Alex Woodie
  While there are challenges in entering the job market, IBM i professionals have the opportunity to maximize their unique skill set to employers.
  Website: http://bit.ly/1kWLbw7

• There's Something Happening Here
  By: Dan Burger
  An interview with Roxanne Lair from FIDM about keeping up-to-date with education at work.
  Website:http://bit.ly/1oDRUWl

• Busy Signals Coming from PowerRuby
  By: Dan Burger
  "The port of the Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails framework to IBM i 7.2 was just completed on June 7...Most of the early feedback from beta users related to difficulties setting up development environments and that was often pegged to the unfamiliar PASE/QSH command line. Some feedback exposed bugs in the install routines, which resulted in frequent updates."
  Website: http://bit.ly/1qapZi1

• IBM Tweaks Power8 CPU And Memory Prices Up
  By: Timothy Prickett Morgan
  IBM changes prices for the memory and processing capacity for the new Power8 systems.
  Website: http://bit.ly/1mNJ0WF

MCPress:

• Top 10 Reasons Why Rails on I is So Cool
  By: Don Denoncourt
  10 Reasons Don chooses to use Rails for IBM i:
  1. Convention over Configuration
  2. Community
  3. Interchangeable programmers
  4. Ruby
  5. No vendor lock-in
  6. Domain-centricity
  7. The console
  8. Develop production-quality apps while learning Rails
  9. Clean integration with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML, and JSON
  10. Rails works natively on the IBM i
  Website: http://bit.ly/1mNJg88

IBM Systems Magazine:

• Larry Bolhuis on Power Systems Hardware and Frankie
  By: Paul Tuohy
  "Paul finds out why Power Systems servers are so great, the benefit of solid state drives, why hardware is important to IBM i in the cloud, and about strange goings on in the “lab” and the creation of the monster known as Frankie."
  Website: http://bit.ly/1oScoQd