Marina Schwenk on Understanding Unit Testing and Modular Coding Using IBMiUnit

I wondered during March’s iChime how many of us were surprised to hear that our special guest had originally wanted to become an FBI investigator.  Fortunately for us, she’d found her real passion within the IBM i community while attending Gateway College and the Wisconsin Midrange User Group WMCPA. And apparently she was hard to …

Dr. Frank Soltis inspires on iChime

During our February iChime meeting, the legendary Dr. Frank Soltis, who holds multiple hardware patents, took us through the high points and milestones of his fascinating 40-year career as an IBM chief scientist. This included, most notably to many, as chief architect for the AS/400. To record-breaking virtual attendance, he shared stories of evolution and …

Jesse Gorzinski leads the way to Open-Source on IBM i

When I prompted Jesse Gorzinski, IBM’s Business Architect for open source on IBM i and creator of IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), “What is open source?” at the start of January’s iChime meeting, I was not surprised by his perfectly succinct reply. “Open source is any application source code not only where there is …