Derek Britton sur Twitter : "Steady as it goes - #COBOL remains a #top25 language on #COBOLrocks #appdev #programming. INQUIRER reveals winners of Tech Hero Awards- The Inquirer. The INQUIRER has revealed the winners of its first Tech Hero Awards, which celebrated the best business IT products, companies and people across the industry.
The winners were announced at the Tech Hero Awards ceremony at Ruby Blue, London on Tuesday 19 May. The awards covered software and hardware products, along with innovation, events and people working in IT departments and at technology vendors. The winners were decided by INQUIRER readers, who voted in their thousands, choosing from a shortlist put together by The INQUIRER team of tech experts. Headline sponsor Category sponsor Here are The INQUIRER Tech Hero Awards winners. Best Smartphone Sony Xperia Z3 Best Tablet Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Best Laptop/HybridAsus Transformer Book T200 Best Business Mobile App BigHand Go. Ed Airey sur Twitter : "#COBOL on the rise! See the latest #programming #language rankings on #TIOBE - #COBOL now #16 and breaking Top 20. Podcasts and Downloads - Peter Day's World of Business.
Grace Hopper: An IT pioneer. For every hot new technology that comes along, so does the perception that government agencies will face a shortage of individuals with the right skills to support that technology.
For years, concerns swirled around the need for more workers skilled in cloud and mobile technologies. This was followed by big data, and the belief that agencies would not be able to fully leverage exploding data volume without first growing the ranks of in-house data scientists. More recently, it is the dearth of cyber security IT professionals that agencies have set their sights on. 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the mainframe computer, and many years on from the mainframe's predicted demise, nearly every single federal government agency still depends heavily on "big iron" to run core operations. And any discussion of core systems such as mainframe must also include COBOL, the programming language introduced in 1959 by Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.
The risk of 'rip and replace' Alexander J Turner sur Twitter : "@moru0011 shocking isn't it! #Java is rapidly loosing relevance in the modern world. I'd hate to it 'do a #COBOL' :( Top 10 Reasons to Learn COBOL. Posted on 05.
Eclipse Visual COBOL Page. What Is Eclipse - Visual COBOL?
Eclipse is a major open-source integrated development environment offering a similar level of functionality to Visual Studio (from Microsoft) whilst being largely platform independent due to being written in Java. For more about the amazing Eclipse IDE - see its home page. The Future Of IDEs Is Here. Today I saw the future of all IDE based development; this is odd because it mainly a COBOL IDE.
If you are interested in COBOL or not - you must read on. Imagine: You have your new computer freshly installed from IT. But, you are a developer. So, the next 48 hours of your working life will be completely consumed setting up development environment. You have to download your IDE. Welcome to a world of pain. Maybe A Lower Barrier Route To Legacy Apps In The Cloud? At Micro Focus I did some research in to using Shell In A Box to access legacy console applications from the web.
We were looking into how to modernize legacy console applications to run in the cloud. We figured that the barrier was too great to force a program vendor to completely replace the UI before trying out cloud computing. Further, for some back office applications, whilst console based UIs are clunky, they work and so there is little commercial benefit in replacing them.
It took only a few hours to get a COBOL console application running on Redhat Linux to be available from a web browser. Indeed, we had a fairly complex menu based application running in safari on the iPhone by the end of the day! All this was cool but it was also HTML4 technology. The VNC protocol has been around for a long time and Java base views as well. These products bridge a traditional VNC server to the web page server. HTML5 Remote Desktop. NoVNC. Shellinabox - Web based AJAX terminal emulator. Overview Shell In A Box implements a web server that can export arbitrary command line tools to a web based terminal emulator.
This emulator is accessible to any JavaScript and CSS enabled web browser and does not require any additional browser plugins. Most typically, login shells would be exported this way: shellinaboxd -s /:LOGIN This command starts a web server at that allows users to login with their username and password and to get access to their login shell. All client-server communications are encrypted, if SSL/TLS certificates have been installed. More details are available in the manual page. Comparing JVM Performance With Pure Native Performance. This is in responce to Justdoro's brilliant comment to my earlier post on the performance of JVM COBOL.
"Interesting how you improved the batch times by factoring out the JVM startup times. What is the timing impact of doing the same for the native batches? That is, create a native stub that loads batch COBOL .dlls. " I had considered this but not done a thorough test, so it is great that some has asked me to! Native code does not do a JIT phase and so there should be very little difference between multiple invocations of a process and running multiple times from within the process other than the 'launch overhead' I discussed in the previous post here. Performance Tips For Micro Focus Managed COBOL - 1. Managed COBOL Performance Tips - 3. Third of a series of video tutorial covering performance programming tips for Micro Focus Managed COBOL.
Please see here for the first, introductory video. This video looks at applying optimization techniques to existing code with minimally invasive local changes to source. To see on Youtube check here or see below. Don't forget this can be seen in 720p and it looks best expanded or full screen. The default is 360p click on resolution selector at the bottom right of the viewer for other options. Micro Focus Managed COBOL Performance Tips - 2. Second of a series of video tutorial covering performance programming tips for Micro Focus Managed COBOL.
Please see here for the first, introductory video. This video looks at optimizing group items to 01 level items and the massive speedups this can produce. To see on Youtube check here or see below. Don't forget this can be seen in 720p and it looks best expanded or full screen. The default is 360p click on resolution selector at the bottom right of the viewer for other options. Getting The Job Done -> COBOL Accessing Microsoft Office. COBOL is a heavy lifting, work-a-day language right? So how about coupling it with Excel? Today someone asked me about making an Excel/VBA single user application into an Excel/COBOL multi-user application. Fun With Visual COBOL. 'Table Of' Is Really Handy In Managed COBOL. Here Is An Example Of Using It And Having Fun Developing With The Visual COBOL IDE.
Writing code should be fun; that way developers are most productive and produce the best code. Good IDEs with a feature rich language help to make developing fun.