I spent three months studying COBOL, wrote eight challenging batch programs, and then took my first assignment, which involved writing online transactions that I learned nothing about before taking the assignment. Since I had no training in real-time programming (i.e., online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, I needed some tutoring by the analyst assigned to be my mentor. Although he never called it pseudo-conversational that is a good label for the constraints I was asked to operate within. Let me explain.
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Posted: October 9, 2017 |
Over the years, you’ve probably spent a lot of time reading and studying computer topics. I have attended many classes and even taught a few and never came across the topics of polyglot persistence and programming. If somebody taught me about polyglot anything, I am sure that I would have remembered it. These are topics, polyglot persistence and programming, discussed by IT practitioners and opinions are on both sides—good idea and not so good—let me explain.
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Posted: October 2, 2017 |
This last post in the series on enterprise testing concentrates on innovations and a few products that will impact the future of testing for these two communites of programmers.
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Posted: September 25, 2017 |
This is the third post in this series on system and application testing on enterprise systems. In this post, I discuss the daunting job of being a mainframe application programmer and how he or she goes about testing. The testing scope can cover everything from deployment of a new release of ISV software to a specific fix made to an in-house application. What is daunting about the job of mainframe application programmer? What does that person do?
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Posted: September 18, 2017 |
This is the second post in this series on system and application testing on enterprise systems. In this post, I discuss the challenging job of being a mainframe system programmer and how they go about testing, covering everything from a major OS release to a specific software product. What is the role of a system programmer? What do they do?
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Posted: September 11, 2017 |
On mainframes, there are two kinds of programmers—application programmers and system programmers. Testing is a place where they need to come together, otherwise there can be serious finger pointing when things don’t go well and there are availability or performance problems with a system or enterprise application.
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Posted: August 28, 2017 |
In this post, I explore an area of innovation focused on mobility. The road to mobility is an interesting one.
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Posted: August 21, 2017 |
This is the fourth post in this series where I have been writing about the drive for new technology. Is need driving innovation or is innovation driving demand? In other words, what came first: the chicken or the egg? In this post, I explore an area of innovation focused on APIs.
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Posted: August 14, 2017 |
This is the third post in this series where I have been writing about the drive for new technology. Is need driving innovation or is innovation driving demand? In other words, what came first: the chicken or the egg? In this post, I explore an area of innovation focused on cloud services.
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Posted: August 7, 2017 |
This is the second post in this series where I write about the drive for new technology. Is need driving innovation or is innovation driving demand? In this post, I explore an area of innovation focused on business-to-business (B2B) innovation through collaboration involving sales and information sharing. According to B2B Marketing, “It is expected that the global B2B eCommerce market will reach $6.7 trillion by 2020, completely dwarfing B2C.”
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Posted: July 31, 2017 |
