Bob Ek Bob has been a developer on IBM midrange computers since 1987, working for private sector companies, as a consultant, and as an instructor for the IBM CEBU division during the 1990s, teaching several programming and development classes throughout the country. He spent 20 years working on Web and API development where he was promoted to Director of Full-Stack Development at one firm. For the past two years, he has been happily employed by Arbor Solutions where he continues to promote web development and the consumption of 3rd party APIs. He believes in using SQL and RPG to do the back-office heavy lifting and has continued to use top-down design in all coding environments.
Here are some resources he utilizes: RPG, SQL, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery for DOM manipulation, HTML, CSS, AJAX for jQuery access to RPG, JSON for third-party API consumption, and Bootstrap for device responsiveness.