COBOL was my second home. VAX BASIC was the first. I lived there for many years. If you wait for enough people to die off, your old skills become really…
COBOL
The Last IBM Engineer
I get the Route Fifty morning email because that’s what is left of Government Computing News magazine. Don’t worry, you can’t find any reference to Government Computing magazine via Google….
std::list – Example and Explanation
Our discussion of std::list, like our discussion of std::vector will start with a bit of history. It wasn’t until the IT industry was inundated with tiny x86 minds that people…
Business/Enterprise Class Computing
We now have a generation of kids who never worked on real computers, only x86 platforms; so Business Class Computing needs to be explained. This all started with an exchange…
Interesting PostgreSQL Oddity
I was working on a tiny database to send out some emails with varying subjects. Decided to use PostgreSQL so I could have a real database as the back end….