A respected author on IT complexity has recently published a whitepaper detailing some of his recent findings which are quite staggering if true.  You can see a critics review of the white paper at the following ZDNet Article(Click here).We are entering into a very interesting point in time as it relates to how IT departments pursue [...]

I am always intrigued by how we can keep IBM i shops “in business” by seeing what can be accomplished with RPG. Because of this I have started a new open source project titled “RPGUI” (aka RPG User Interface) and have started an article series with IBMSystemsMag.com to document it. Learn more on the RPGUI page.Note that [...]

We have a new baby BOY in the Bartell family!  His name is Wyatt Andrew Bartell and is the 5th and final child we are expecting :-)
Stats:
Weight: 9lbs 14.4 oz
Born: Thursday December 10th, 6:56pm
… hmm… that’s all I can remember for stats.  But really, what else matters! ;-)
Mom and baby are both healthy.  Wyatt is [...]

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 [...]

I guess this would be a “press release” post – not something I am used to :-)  Patrick Botz is somebody that I have recently gotten to know through the folks at SystemiDeveloper.com.  As I understand it he is just starting out his consulting business after leaving IBM.  Click here for the press release.

I had the cool honor of being interviewed for the ENDPGM portion of the IBMSystemsMag trade rag.

You can find the article here.  I learned the hard way that you should wear contacts when doingn a 1/2 marathon (I was too cheap to buy some – never again! :-), you can see my mole-ish eyes peering [...]