RE: COMMON advice

["Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff, 

You just hit on one of the most advantageous part of attending a COMMON
conference, the networking and interaction with the other attendees.  You're
not belittling the sessions at all.  

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff
Crosby
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 1:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: COMMON advice

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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