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I'm a Ruby programmer and need to learn RPG IV because of my current project. I want to learn primitive types, data structures, control flows, architecture etc. Online resources are as good as paper books.
What book or online tutorial should I start with?
This Red Book from IBM is still quite relevant today.
IBM i Information Center is the source for the actual documentation.
RPG-L is a great mailing list with hundreds of helpful people to answer all of your questions.
Another link I knew was out there, but couldn't find at first was from Scott Klement who is well known in the IBM i community.
You can run JRuby natively on the iSeries if that's your primary skill set.
There may be some pushback if you have some stodgy graybeards that are afraid of new technology stacks.
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I want to learn to develop applications in Lazarus, but I need resources, preferably books, to Lazarus.
Keep in mind that I know 0 of Pascal.
Thanks.
Lazarus - The Complete Guide can be found here.
UPDATE:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Tutorial
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Howdy_World_%28Hello_World_on_steroids%29
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Pascal_and_Lazarus_Books_and_Magazines
Free book is here. I know this is for Delphi but it will also help a Lazarus newbie very much.
To my knowledge there are also books in german (paid), portuguese (paid), and arabic (free).
The compiler and non visual manuals are here
One can also use Delphi resources to some degree; Essential Pascal is also always a good read, and so are the older Mastering Delphi books from the same author
Marco Cantu's book "Essential Pascal" is a good, implementation agnostic Pascal guide for the Object Pascal dialects of Pascal (Lazarus, FPC, Delphi).
http://www.marcocantu.com/epascal/
An older version of the book is available free, and the most recent can be purchased.
I learned using the book
'Oh! Pascal!'
. Clear and basic - very good.
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I'm dealing with RTML at work a lot. When I was just starting to learn RTML it was extremely hard for me to find any useful resources and good books on the topic.
The best book I'm found so far is this one:
RTML 101: The Unofficial Guideto Yahoo! Store Templates
http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/ytimes/rtmlintro.pdf
There isn't a lot of info on the web about RTML out there unfortunately. . . Here are a couple more resources ->
This forum has a wealth of information about yahoo stores, and most people in the RTML business subscribe to it.
http://www.yourstoreforums.com/
This tool can be used to transfer RTML templates, for a price.
http://software.yourstorewizards.com/rtml/rtmltransfer.msi
Another ebook for beginner RTML
http://www.ytimes.info/cuteno.html
More advanced ebook.
http://www.ytimes.info/decyt.html
I can't give you any RTML templates unfortunately, but I hope these resources can get you off to a good start.
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Please recommend some material about implementing Object-Oriented Databases for dynamic languages (interested in Ruby).
I realise that OODBs do not have a good mathematical foundation, but still the information I could find is absolutely insufficient for me to start working on a new OODB.
Thanks.
Have a look at Won Kim's "Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases". It's considered an authoritative source on the matter.
EDIT: An alternative reference is "Object-Relational Database Development" by Paul Brown. It takes an object/relational approach, which may be interesting given the prevalence of relational technologies these days.
There are several for pay papers:
An implementation of a multimedia object-oriented database management system
An object-oriented database system Jasmine: implementation, application, and extension
The Design and Implementation of an Object Oriented Database Management System-OMNIX
Then there's also the website odbms.org, which has resources online:
http://www.odbms.org/downloads.aspx
Last but not least I'd probably try to search for whitepapers or tech docs for a popular ODBMS like Caché.
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I am searching for a good online project managment software. There are plenty of them though. So, the best way would be to get some recommendations. :-)
Lately I've found Zoho Projects.. does anyone use it?
Thanks for answers.
Andy
I've used ProjectPier: http://www.projectpier.org/
but we are now moving to http://teambox.com/community
They are open source "replicas" of Basecamp. Teambox seems to be much more up to date as ProjectPier hasn't had a release in a loooooooooooong time.
There's also Trac, which I like because it ties into svn and gives you milestones, bug tracking, etc. http://trac.edgewall.org/
I'm using AgileZen and I'm happy with it. It implements the Kanban methodology and its very simple and effective. Pricing is not cheap, but they give a free account to free software projects.
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One of the jobs I'm looking at requires good experience with EAI.
Was wondering if anyone can recommend good EAI books / resources?
I've had this book for several years, and I still regard it as a valuable reference.
Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
The author also has a list of books on his website.
Although not a classical eai book i like "Enterprise Service Bus" by Dave Chapell -> it adresses many Integration challenges and gives a rough understanding of some key principles of "modern integration"
The already mentioned Enterprise Integration Patterns is also very good for diving into some conceptual background.