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• 10 Things You Need to Learn as a New Assembler Developer

  As an Assembler Developer that has been coding for a good few years now, I was thinking about some of the critical things I have learned over the years that have really made me a better programmer. These are my top ten things you should learn as a new Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 05, 2010 2:45 PM by kharper | 10 Comments Filed under: Career, SHARE, zNextGen, Jobs, Workforce, Mainframe, Assembler, education, new

• A Day on the Job as an Assembler Application Developer

  One of the questions I often get when meeting new mainframers or when speaking at a career day is what do you actually do everyday? Yes, I am a nerd at heart and I spend a lot of time coding HLASM, but there is a lot more too this career than what you Read More... Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 5:15 PM by kharper | 1 Comments Filed under: Career, Jobs, Mainframe, Assembler

• Could a BAD Economy Be GOOD for Mainframes?

  It's hard to deny that the economy is in a slump right now. Everyone probably knows a friend or family member who has lost a job, who is struggling to pay bills or is working overtime to pay the mortgage. Hopefully that person is not you. I am sure Read More... Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 2:52 PM by kharper | 1 Comments Filed under: Mainframe, Assembler, education, economy

• Dreadful (er, I mean “pleasantly challenging”) Assembler Instructions

  As a new Assembler programmer with a couple years under my belt now here at NESI , I’ve recently come across some instructions that have really made me think. In a module I was working on, I needed to use floating point, grande and lots of shift Read More... Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 9:51 AM by kharper | 0 Comments Filed under: Mainframe, Assembler