Level Up Your RPG with Python

PodcastTo listen in to this meeting click here!IntroductionIn our November 2023 iChime meeting, special guest, Joseph Wright, an experienced IBM i programmer and consultant, led an enlightening session on Python’s role in augmenting RPG. He shed light on a groundbreaking approach in IT development: the integration of Python into RPG programming. This blog post captures …

Attending and presenting at IBM’s TechXchange conference? Yes, please!

TechXchange is quickly approaching and with the opportunity to co-present two sessions on my favorite topics, I am super pumped. Meeting again at a conference of this scale never disappoints. Here are just some of the reasons why I am so looking forward to being there. You should be there too! The People First and …

AI Experts Share Their Knowledge on iChime Show and Tell

The iChime community was joined this past week by not one, but four experts who shared research, experience, and demos with the group. We kicked off the meeting with a discussion with Dr. Chirag Shah, a professor at the University of Washington. Dr. Shah is an expert in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and information science. …

On Some Level, System Administration is Every Developer’s Responsibility

There is a common perception among developers that system health is strictly an admin role that does not overlap with development. Truth be told though, I have a hard time creating such a strict delineation between these roles. They compliment and rely on each other so much that they cannot be totally separated into strictly …

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 …