You might have heard the term "Technical Debt" floating around your office. It has become one of IT's newest buzz words and has some people scratching their heads as to what it means. The official definition of Technical Debt is: A concept in programming that reflects the extra development work that arises when code that is easy to implement in the short run is used instead of applying the best overall solution. Technical debt is commonly associated with extreme programming, especially in the context of refactoring.
Clearly Technical Debt can be a hindrance to your companies future, and can keep you from accessing not only future tools and techniques, but also future developers as well. If you are using extra man power to work on short term issues, you are holding yourself back from innovation and thus closing off your supply line of new developer talent that might come.
Today we want to take a look at What Technical Debt is, what causes it, and some solutions that might help you!
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Topics:
RPG Development,
Application modernization,
IBM i applications,
Node.js,
Profound.js,
IBM i,
RPG,
AS400 modernization,
IBM i Modernization,
Agile modernization,
green screen modernization,
5250
Profound.js 2.0 is the latest product expansion from Profound Logic and was released in early May of 2017. Profound.js harnesses the power of Agile Modernization and Node.js for IBM i application modernization. Version 2.0 brings new capabilities to the product, including a Commercial Connector module and an Enhanced JumpStart module. The Profound Logic team has been dedicated to bringing comprehensive and easy to understand knowledge to our customers for years, and in that spirit we have created a series of videos to help you understand some of the amazing benefits that come with Profound.js 2.0. Here are a few videos to help you better understand Profound.js 2.0. For the full list of all our videos, please check out our Profound.js channel.
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Topics:
RPG Development,
Application modernization,
IBM i applications,
Node.js,
Profound.js,
IBM i,
RPG,
AS400 modernization,
IBM i Modernization,
Agile modernization,
green screen modernization,
5250
Businesses on the IBM i have long been searching for the best way to bring their legacy applications into the modern age. Many take on very high-risk and high-cost system rewrites, or even attempt to migrate off the IBM i all together, otherwise known as "The Big Bang" scenario. Unfortunately, these projects often fail and cost millions of dollars and waste years of development efforts. Here are 3 of the main reasons you will want to avoid this "Big Bang" scenario:
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Topics:
RPG Development,
Application modernization,
IBM i applications,
Node.js,
Profound.js,
IBM i,
RPG,
AS400 modernization,
IBM i Modernization,
Agile modernization,
green screen modernization,
5250
Recently the Node.js Foundation released their 2nd annual survey and it was a great one for the framework. Node.js has proven itself a leader in universal development with a wide range of applications for it's users. This survey took a look at key elements to determine who was using Node.js and what were they using it for.
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Topics:
RPG Development,
Application modernization,
IBM i applications,
Node.js,
Profound.js,
IBM i,
RPG,
AS400 modernization,
IBM i Modernization,
Agile modernization,
green screen modernization,
5250
Today's modern workforce is ever changing and companies must continue to modernize the way they do business as well as the way their business looks. Modernizing the look and feel of your green screen is an essential step in keeping up with the modern workforce and can be a huge moral boost for any IBM i shop.
The green screen (5250 emulator) terminal was created in 1977, so those who are still utilizing the 5250 are missing out on 30 years in advancements in UI/UX technology. To be competitive, today's businesses must offer employees a modern graphical user interfaces. But Why? Here are 5 employee benefits to modernizing your green screens:
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Topics:
RPG Development,
Application modernization,
IBM i applications,
Node.js,
Profound.js,
IBM i,
RPG,
AS400 modernization,
IBM i Modernization,
Agile modernization,
green screen modernization,
5250
