Here is a YouTube channel that an IBM’er recently made me aware of.  Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/user/lugoffice

Here is an interesting blog posting by Bruce Richardson of Infor who has a title of Chief Strategy Officer.  In the post he talks about how he is basically being reintroduced to the AS400.  Given his title, it will be interesting to see what Infor’s future direction will be in the future.
Thanks to David Gibbs [...]

Hi All,
Was on a call with IBM and the YiPs team yesterday.  They are looking for ways to liven up, and modernize, their message about the benefits of the IBM i.  The cool thing is that the folks on the phone weren’t your traditional marketing folks but people that have grown up with the machine [...]

The folks at System i Developer have graciously invited me again to speak at their conference.  You can check out their announcement here: http://www.systemideveloper.com/announce2010Spring.html.
You can check out the sessions here: http://www.systemideveloper.com/sessiongrid.html
Among other sessions, I will be speaking on one of my latest passions: RPGUI
On that note, what are everybody’s projections for getting training this year?  [...]

I am excited to say the WMCPA users group have invited me back for a second time to their annual conference.  The way I figure it, I must not have not have done too bad at my table manners the first time around.  It is always a fun time working with the likes of Jim [...]

So today I was on a call with a customer (a large bank in the south west) who hired me to do a proof of concept where I communicated with a remote web service using RPG and delivered the results back out to the browser (again, using RPG).  The POC had a tight time line [...]

I received the below email from the RPG & DB2 Summit organizers and it sounds like they are coming to my home state of Minnesota – YES!  See below for their confirmation that they are in fact having a conference this fall.  Note that October is an excellent month to be in Minnesota with crisp [...]

Jim Buck, president of the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association [whew, what a name], has invited me to speak at their next conference which is happening on April 1 & 2 of 2009.  This will be my first time attending or speaking at this conference but it is sure to be good with some of [...]

Yep, you read that right. I ventured into uncharted territories writing a training course and loved every minute of it – well, most of it anyway. Writing a training course is like writing 60 articles on the same subject in a fraction of the time.
The training course is titled “XML Web Services for [...]

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