Never seen so many grey haired developers in one hotel   😉

On a serious note – Some terrific speakers and I was impressed by the general knowledge of all the presenters. I can honestly say I never got bored for one moment and good presentation style kept my attention for all 4 days. Joe Pluta in particular is an amusing guy with some strong opinions, and very funny to listen to.

It’s nice to listen to i-people who are as obviously enthusiastic about the i as i am… see what I did there?

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so whats the difference between:

 

Chain (keyfields) filename;
If Not %eof( filename );
--- do something ---
EndIF;

 

and Code:

 

Chain (keyfields) filename;
If %Found( filename )
--- do something ---
EndIF;

 

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Rochester, MN – IBM yesterday said it would expand its efforts to address the growing global waste data disposal crisis by teaming up with Data Waste Management, Inc. Together the companies will jointly introduce new services, technologies and financing to help enterprises facing the skyrocketing costs of waste data disposal. Throughout the world companies produce

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Tekton is my absolute bestest font. I just re-discovered it after an absense of some 20 years. wow I am old!! Back in my Toshiba/JBA days I remember being all excited about this new thing called the internet and spending half an hour downloading the tekton fonts from some FTP server in France using my

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Upgrading TURNOVER is easy So, today I’m upgrading the IBM ISeries Change Management system from Turnover version 5.3 to 5.4 I’m also going to switch from the old Jurassic Green screen methods to the funky space-age GUI that comes bundled with TurnoverV5R4. This new Turnover Client is an addon to the open-source editor – Eclipse.

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