RE: COMMON advice

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.

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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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