Cyrus Montakab http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/ en Various Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:06:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss COBOL programmer salaries up by 43% in 1 year http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/22/1245661560000.html See <a href="javascript:void(0);/*1245004125832*/">IT Job Watch </a>site.&nbsp; Here is my ideas on the reasons for this increase ...<p><a href="http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/22/1245661560000.html">Read more...</a></p> General http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/22/1245661560000.html#comments http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/22/1245661560000.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:06:00 GMT Microfocus's increasing license costs & Legacy Modernization http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/15/1245093960000.html Legacy Modernization focus is changing faster from Rehosting to translation - thanks to the ever increasing Microfocus license costs.<p><a href="http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/15/1245093960000.html">Read more...</a></p> General http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/15/1245093960000.html#comments http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/15/1245093960000.html Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:26:00 GMT From COBOL Data-Types to Java/C# Primitive data-types http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/14/1244979900000.html <p>This is a continuation of my <a href="http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/04/16.html"><font color="#0066cc">earlier blog</font></a> - asking what would be the desirable characteristics of a COBOL program - rewritten in OO Java or C#. I followed that post with a description of first steps <a href="http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/04/22/1240400400000.html">to go from Structured data definitions into an Object-Oriented design</a>.</p> <p>In this posting, we'll look at what can happen to all the data-items, COBOL redefinitions, COMP variables and etc.</p><p><a href="http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/14/1244979900000.html">Read more...</a></p> Legacy Modernization http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/14/1244979900000.html#comments http://www.softwaremining.com/blog/CyrusMontakab/2009/06/14/1244979900000.html Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:45:00 GMT