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For the past few years I have been developing PHP applications for the web. It's a great language to work with, with all the functionality you need either built into the language, or easily accomplished, and well documented. PHP has the best online documentation I've seen in my life. HTML/CSS/PHP/Apache/PostGreSQL don't particularly care which tool you use to develop with, and happen to all work cross-platform by design, so no problem if I prefer to develop on Linux. But working with these wonderful tools doesn't pay well. And that's not such a big problem. Here comes the problem. I just got hired for the best-paying job of my life as the sole programmer/analyst for an organization of over 1000 employees. Not a big deal, I thought. I work better under pressure. Until I learned more about what I was programming on: the AS/400. I have been here for three weeks now, perusing literally thousands of pages of documentation to try to understand this wacky OS, and have tried to run dozens of example scripts and programs. Not a single program I have written has actually compiled (and I'm talking about one-liner, "Hello, World" programs here) and I haven't figured out how to get the debugger to run. My account is set up explicitly as a PROGRAMMER account, yet I get this message: "Not authorized to command STRDBG in library *LIBL." What operating system in its right mind denies debugger access to the PROGRAMMER group? WTF? _________________________________________________________________ Planning a family vacation? Check out the MSN Family Travel guide! http://dollar.msn.com
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