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Speaking at the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association

I’m writing this blog at 34,000 feet, heading back to New York.   While I sit here listening to the two young children behind me singing songs and laughing out loud during the turbulence, I reflect on this past week. I landed in Milwaukee Monday evening, meeting up with Michelle Lyons of the Wisconsin Midrange Computer […]

Posted byCharles GuarinoMarch 19, 2016April 8, 2020Posted inUncategorized

LUGs and LISUG’s Night of 1000 Stars

I’ve written it before but it bears repeating – the Long Island Systems User Group, aka LISUG (www.lisug.org) is my home LUG – Local User Group. The “UG” is simple here and very descriptive – a group of like-minded technology professionals, in my case, IBM i. The “L” however is more significant though because it […]

Posted byCharles GuarinoDecember 29, 2015April 8, 2020Posted inUncategorized

A hard dollars and sense ROI calculation for IBM’s RDi

  According to Wikipedia, the definition of ROI is “the benefit to the investor resulting from an investment of some resource. A high ROI means the investment gains compare favorably to investment cost.  As a performance measure, ROI is used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number […]

Posted byCharles GuarinoNovember 30, 2015April 8, 2020Posted inUncategorized

LISUG kicks off the 2015 – 2016 semester

Long Island Systems User Group Meeting September 15th, 2015 LISUG kicked off its 31st year with a double feature from speaker Trevor Seeney @tseeney. Trevor hails from New Jersey and we were thrilled to have him kickoff our 2015-2016 semester. The first session which started just after 5PM was titled “Implementing Animations and Transformations on […]

Posted byCharles GuarinoSeptember 30, 2015April 8, 2020Posted inUncategorized

Kicking the tires with RDi Version 9.5

RDi Version 9.5 is available! Kicking the tires Version 9.5 became available for download on Friday, September 18th. I downloaded my copy that same day and began using it immediately.   What follows are some initial observations.count Prior to the 18th I was excited to read about some of the Version 9.5 announcements mentioned in the […]

Posted byCharles GuarinoSeptember 21, 2015April 8, 2020Posted inUncategorized

Speaking season round 2

With the summer (or at least July and August, believe me, I will hold on to summer until the very last second) in the rear view mirror, I am fully looking to resuming traveling to various groups and conferences to meet my IBM i peers.   First stop is LISUG www.lisug.org. After that COMMON in […]

Posted byCharles GuarinoSeptember 14, 2015April 8, 2020Posted inUncategorized

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