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IBM i Videos on YouTube

There are a few IBM i related videos that were created by IBM (during COMMON in Reno) starring various community luminaries. More can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/dynamicinfrastructur. Technorati Tags: ibm, ibm i, Marketing, video, youtube

Business Cards

OK, time for a minor gripe. I just got back from the COMMON conference in Reno and, as usual, I collected a fair number of business cards of the people I met. Problem is: Some of the business cards are absolutely useless.

COMMON 2009 Pictures

I’ve uploaded a number of pictures from COMMON 2009 to Flickr. The URL is http://www.flickr.com/groups/common2009 If you’ve got any, feel free to contribute. Technorati Tags: common, Flickr, photos

COMMON 2009 Review

Well, I just got home from COMMON 2009 in Reno Nevada. This was a pretty significant conference … and for many reasons. PERSONAL As I mentioned in a previous post, this is the first conference that I tried my hand at presenting sessions. All my sessions were scheduled for the last day of the conference … which wasn’t [...]

Configurations

We temporarily interrupt this blog for a little levity & humor. Some IBM CE’s are called out to a advanced science research lab to fix a problem with a system. They are directed to the “Anti-Gravity Research” department. They enter the computer room to find the machine they are supposed to fix floating in the middle of the [...]

Are you educating yourself?

Are you going to COMMON? If not, why not? OK, yeah, COMMON is kind of pricey. Add air fare, hotel, & food to the conference fee and you’re talking real money (not quite $100M though <grin/>). Next question: Do you attend your local user group meetings? What about their technical conferences? Word of advice: If you don’t go to [...]

Document Decision

As developers, it’s been drilled into our heads that we must provide documentation for our programs … both inside the code, as comments, and for end user’s use. One thing I’ve noticed that we tend to neglect, however, is to document the DECISIONS we make. Why did we select one implementation over another. Case in point: Last week, [...]

SEU in the age of Twitter

I was having a conversation on Twitter, and… hm? Yes, Twitter’s one of those new-fangled thingies that nobody can really explain to you why you should be bothered with it. Yes, email works perfectly well, as do the telephone and the telegraph. This opinion piece isn’t about Twitter; it’s about why I [...]

COMMON 2009 & Al Barsa

The annual COMMON conference is just around the corner ... this time in Reno Nevada. Three significant things of note for this conference ... Al Barsa Memorial Scholarship Board of Directors Elections Presenting Sessions

New System

While I was on my vacation, they installed a new IBM i model M25 at work for development. It’s quite nice … and significantly faster than the previous 820 we had. It reminds me of my last job … when we upgraded from a D35 to one of the new “RISC” systems (they had just come out). [...]