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When: Oct 8, 2023 @ 1:00-4:30 eastern
Where: In Person at NAViGATE
Join MAGiC for a half day of education, networking and fun!
The Sunday prior to the beginning of NAViGATE, MAGiC will have a half day of sessions and an optional outing to Top Golf ($35 fee). This event is open to everyone and there is not a session fee for the meeting. Come network with IBM i experts and other IBM i users to learn tips and techniques and what is HOT in the IBM i space!
Our session will include:
Web Services: A RESTful introduction
Patrick Behr will introduce the basics of web services, with a focus on HTTP, JSON, and RESTful principles, and also demonstrate how to consume and provide APIs from IBM i.
Making Open Source work for you, a real life example
Chris Hird will share his experience working with Open Source how they integrated it into their solution. He will discuss initial concept at the start and how it evolved. Having seen the problems with the existing design, we had to pivot and develop our own source and process. We should be mindful that Open source is a framework and not necessarily a fully-fledged solution.
Chris will share challenges, benefits and lessons learned that resulted in what is AAG today.
Open Round Table
Panel: Patrick Behr, Chris Hird, Mike Pavlak and Justin Loeber
You will have an opportunity to ask your questions of the experts - So have your questions ready!
Patrick Behr
With a career in IT spanning 20 years, Patrick Behr has been working on IBM i (and its predecessors) for all of it. He spent most of his career working with RPG and Db2, and earned the ILE RPG Developer Certification, and has also worked in web development and application and database modernization. Patrick is a COMMON Speaker of Merit and Bronze medal winner, and has spoken at conferences and user groups across the country.
Chris Hird
Chris Hird is Owner/Director of Shield Advanced Solutions Ltd. His technical capabilities have earned him a worldwide reputation for excellence in providing IBM i solutions for more than 34 years. Specializing in High Availability Chris is an advocate for Open Source integration. He serves on the Board of Directors of TUG (Toronto User Group).
Justin Loeber
Mike Pavlak
Mike has been working with IBM midrange solutions since 1992 and IBM Mainframes before that. Mike was instrumental in developing the adoption of PHP as a primary solution for web development on IBM i working with Zend Technologies. Today, as Senior Sales Engineer with Perforce, Mike helps companies around the world approach the challenges of modernization and open source technologies. In addition to several roles as a volunteer with COMMON the premier IBM midrange user group, Mike also teaches PHP & Python classes part time at Moraine Valley Community College in Suburban Chicago.