Redbook Diary
Susan, Jon and Paul are currently working on the next version of the RPG Redbook. It has been an interesting saga so far and we thought we would share some of the highlights of the on-going process.
As a bit of background - Redbooks are produced by IBMs International Technical Support Organization
(ITSO). This usually involves a team of people taking up a residency in Rochester for a few weeks.
It really is not possible for us to take a few weeks out of our schedule so the RPG Redbook will be
written piece by piece as and when we can :-).
Sections of the Redbook may be released as Red Pieces prior to the Redbook being published.
Although IBM assist with expenses, there is no fee, income or renumeration for writing a Redbook. Of course, this can affect some of the time dedicated to writing :-)
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to read the Diary for that period.
Diary
2005 January to March 2006 April to June 2006 July to September 2006 
October to December 2006 
November 2006.
Usually, people would go to Rochester. But I (Paul) happened to be in Italy for a week and
I managed to convince Jon and Susan that they should join me for a second week.
We stayed at a villa (www.palaie.com) in Tuscany (near Arezzo)
owned by my good friends Rita and Marco (that's us outside the villa in the picture above). Marco was also good
enough to provide us with an office and a high speed internet connection at his offices (TESI).
We get to work - full of enthusiasm and bright ideas.
Man, that was one tough week! "Is it worth it?" we asked ourselves.
A lot of progress was made but the work had taken it's toll. It is good to see something concrete after the slow progress over the last few months.
December 2006. Redbook takes a back seat as we try to get ready for System i Developer and RPG & DB2 Summit. But a fair piece of work is written and in review stage.