Greg Helton

Software developer, submarine veteran 1977-83

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

@USN_Submariner @PHineinlegen from wikipedia - An Advanced Surface Missile System (ASMS) was promulgated and ... initiated in 1964 to meet the requirements. ASMS was renamed "Aegis" in December 1969.

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

On March 17, 1939, physicist Enrico Fermi met with US Navy and Army representatives to discuss uranium fission's potential for both weapons and power generation. Shortly thereafter, physicist Ross Gunn, head of the Mechanics and Electricity Division at the Naval Research Laboratory secured initial funding (around $2,000) to study uranium as a power source for a submarine steam plant.

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

@archi_tradition

[Tamino Martinius @TaminoMartinius]

~10 years ago I did yearly talks about "new JavaScript features".

When Chrome 100 shipped in 2022, I started a habit:
a tiny live demo page for every Chrome release.

50 versions later, I unified them all into one site 👇
https://t.co/OcEH2lGbQ8

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

RPG (report program generator) was a language designed to get the most out of a punch card. Certain characters in certain columns defined files, fields, etc. It has 130 predefined booleans, some of which change as the state of the program changes. Programs eventually migrated from the punch card to the dumb terminal. It ran on mainframes, HP and Wang minicomputers and IBM's System/36 and System/38 and AS/400. It was half of the Y2K problem.

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

@shanghaielon @EylonALevy How's that working out for them?

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Russia has been barred from competing in the Olympics since they started a war in Ukraine. Nothing has changed. It’s an absolute disgrace the IOC would clear them to compete while Putin continues to bomb Ukrainian cities and hold their land.

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

The IBM i was first introduced as the AS/400. Most machines were sold as appliances to run canned software like ERP systems (Lawson, MAPICS, JD Edwards) and utilities like Fax/400. EDI and Y2K were the big challenges for developers. The UI was and is the dumb terminal. OO was never on the radar.

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

@USN_Submariner Same vibe. Bush on Finback.

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

@William94984551 @lauriewired IBM i OS objects have types and encapsulated implementation, but there is no inheritance, method overriding, or polymorphism. Essentially, every object type in IBM i OS is final. The command to override a file is not an OO overide.

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

@lauriewired JTOpen, the IBM i JDBC driver JAR, also contains classes that expose the native IBM i object model. Those classes invoke IBM i system APIs and manipulate libraries, programs, data queues, message queues, jobs, etc. Explore IBM i from a JRuby REPL in QP2TERM.

[peaklass @peaklass1]

Feeling like a scene from the pages of a story book, this is the village of Tissington in the Peak District. It has winding lanes lined with cottages, all clustered around a Jacobean manor house, plenty of lovely independent shops, a cosy tearoom, a 12th Century church - and a beautifully peaceful village duckpond. I must admit that I feel quite envious of the ducks at the moment, splashing around in that cool water!

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Happiness is waking up to an endless view of the countryside 😍

Would you agree?

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

A Sunlit Garden #WilliamDidierPouget

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

Gee that's funny because Clinton ran on balancing the budget in 1992 but it didn't appear on the GOP platform until 1994. If Newt did it, you'll have to explain why he met with the White House in budget negotiations over several months. In 2000, Bush ran on an explicit promise to bust the budget surplus.

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

England is the Shire.

[Ian Archie Beck @ianarchiebeck]

After The Storm, The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on linen

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

@BrianRoemmele At that time, very few farms were wired to the public utility grid.

[Greg Helton @Greg_Helton]

@specialopsmag The one where the Machinist Mate filled in for Special Ops