Justin, I'll offer some practical advice for any conference as it's your first.
1. Treat your feet well. Wear comfortable walking shoes. You'll do quite a bit of running around over the course of the conference, plus airports and mucking about downtown at night. Whatever you do, don't bring brand new shoes and break them in there. On a related note, I always pack twice the socks I'd regularly need because I do a mid-day sock change and sometimes again before heading out at night. This is number 1 for a reason. Your feet will fail you before anything else.
2. Attend the events. Mixers, socials, parties...whatever you want to call them. Don't hang out in your hotel room when the sessions are over for the day. The people you meet and the stories you hear are worth the price of admission alone.
3. Go to some sessions that are way outside your comfort zone. The great thing about all these sessions is that they'll offer you plenty of perspective.
Steve Pitcher
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Justin Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 3:02 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L (midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx) <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: COMMON advice
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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