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Power Programmer Skills
Successful programers/developers today are more than just highly technical workers. They are a combination of technical skills and other more like soft-skills abilities. In truth, as IT gives support to every kind of business, Power... [more]
Successful programers/developers today are more than just highly technical workers. They are a combination of technical skills and other more like soft-skills abilities.
In truth, as IT gives support to every kind of business, Power Programmers must be knwoledgeable in different topics and business.
In this wikizine, we are going to gather information related to these non-technical skills. I hope you have a good time and learn something useful in the meantime.
Do a little research into COBOL and a few interesting things jump out at you. Some of this information is from Gartner Group and the rest can easily be verified by doing even a brief survey of the field. Taking the following bits of information:
75% of the world's business data passes through COBOL (Gartner Group estimate)There is possibly up to a fifth of a trillion lines of COBOL code out there (Gartner again)People are still writing...
- Is COBOL the root of all evil? (computerworlduk.com)
This book is intended for the COBOL/CICS mainframe community of programmers making the transition from mainframe to .NET, and also for those who simply wish to broaden their .NET knowledge base.
Read netCOBOL's review of the book.
$79.99 | Published Apr 2003 | Chris L. Richardson
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Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, has helped Italian software provider Sintecop S.p.A. add Java capability to its valued legacy applications, preserve COBOL assets, and remove uncertainty over support and pricing from a previous COBOL supplier.
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From centredaily.com
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PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, will present a Webinar to show how companies can easily update valuable COBOL applications by developing modern and intuitive graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The Webinar can be accessed at http://www.veryant.com/idewebinar. It is a 40-minute session that will show attendees how to: quickly build a modern GUI interface for COBOL applications add advanced graphical...
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From businesswire.com
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PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, will be a featured presenter at the COBOL iX Days Conference in Munich, Germany on November 24-25. Florian Delonge, EMEA Business Development Director for Veryant, will speak on “Bridging the COBOL to Java Divide”. He will present case studies that demonstrate how organizations with COBOL assets have leveraged existing skills and resources to natively enable Java...
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From businesswire.com
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Progress DataDirect Unveils Industry's First Mainframe SQL Engine ...Market Wire (press release)... Shadow WsC capabilities of DataDirect Shadow z/Services which enable mainframe COBOL, PL/1 or Natural programs to consume and publish Web services. ...and more »
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From news.google.com
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20 Things You Might Not Know About COBOL (as the Language Turns 50)eWeekMore than 80 percent of all daily business transactions are processed in COBOL. More than 70 percent of all worldwide business data is stored on a mainframe ...Happy 50th Birthday to COBOLHard OCPCOBOL Turns 50Zikkir World (blog)COBOL turns 50Computerworld AustraliaThe Channel magazineall 13 news articles »
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