Re: COMMON advice

Mostly don't sweat it. It's not about learning specific things as it is
about total immersion, like a language school

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I concur with Jeff and Jack. In addition, I recommend the first-timers
meeting - it's on Saturday evening at 6pm, if you arrive that day.

On the online schedule page there are also "Focused Education Roadmaps" -
these might help get you a start - the Open Source one has only 2 items,
but there are also session types, and Open Source languages course type has
a bunch.

Also, there is the vendor expo - that can be a good thing to go to, that's
when you get lunch, too!! That starts Sunday evening and goes to Tuesday
noon or so.

There are some pre-conference workshops, as well, a couple on IBM i
security with Carol Woodbury, should be excellent, if you need that. Open
source, of course, Python lab - extra cost but focused, if needed.

As Jeff says, meeting folks is a key part of the conference - I look
forward to meeting you & others there, and sometimes David lines up a
get-together for those of us on these lists.

I have a couple sessions, as well, you are not required to attend!! :)

Regards
Vern


On 4/11/2018 1:07 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

I can't tell you which sessions as I haven't been to a COMMON in quite a
while.

What I CAN tell you is you can get brain overload. You might reach a
point
where you'll say "I can't absorb anything more right now" and decide to
take an hour off. I played that by ear as sessions vary in their
cognitive
intensity.

The 2nd thing I can tell you is leave some energy for after hours get
togethers. Many, many times I learned more by talking to other attendees
and their experiences. And I'm not belittling the sessions, that's just
the way it was.



On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

This morning, our Windows manager dropped a COMMON brochure on my desk and

told me he wants me to go. After I fell out of my chair, I began looking
at the sessions. I've been in this business for a long time, but I've
never been to a conference or any kind of training. I'm hoping to
solicit
some advice on what sessions to attend.

We're a 2.5 man shop running mostly 5250 apps on a 720. I'm both a dev
and the admin. My primary dev role is connecting IBMi with non-5250
clients, originally via Db2 stored procedures (RPG & SQL) and now mostly
webservices (DIY RPG CGI & CGIDEV2). I have about a dozen web apps done
using CGIDEV2, jQuery, HTML and JS. I know some Java and have a couple
of
Java utility apps.

I'd like to attend every session, but that's not really possible. So I'd
love some help narrowing down the choices.


TIA
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