MCPressOnline.com has been my host for more than six years of newsletters, has a wonderful staff, and provides what I think is one of the easiest to navigate technical Web sites around. They don't require you to sign over your firstborn child just to read an article, and that's how it should be. It has been a pleasure working with all of them, particularly Victoria Mack, who edits my prose so that you all keep coming back.
Over the years, I've written a lot about RPG IV, about the System i marketplace, about RPG World, COMMON, and even IBM. Often, the articles I pulled out of thin air and expected to get little or no response to were the articles with the most feedback.
The emotion of being an RPG programmer, or better yet, a System i Professional is strong. We tend to be like Apple Mac users. Or are they actually more like us?
At the end of the day, though, we all need to support ourselves and our families, and that doesn't just mean money; it means spending time doing interesting things and being excited about what your next adventure is going to be.
I really enjoy writing about RPG IV, using CGI with RPG IV, writing utilities in RPG IV, and teaching all of it to all of you.
Keep in touch, and if I don't see you at RPG World, I'm sure I'll see you online somewhere.
Thanks for all of your support.
Bob Cozzi is author of the best-selling The Modern RPG IV Language, Fourth Edition as well as RPG TNT: 101 Dynamite Tips 'n Techniques with RPG IV and is host of the i5 Podcast Network, which provides free video and audio podcasts to the i5 community. You can also see him in person at RPG World in May 2007.
Bob Cozzi is a programmer/consultant, writer/author, and software developer. His popular RPG xTools add-on subprocedure library for RPG IV is fast becoming a standard with RPG developers. His book The Modern RPG Language has been the most widely used RPG programming book for more than a decade. He, along with others, speaks at and produces the highly popular RPG World conference for RPG programmers.
MC Press books written by Robert Cozzi available now on the MC Press Bookstore.
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