MAGiC Updates

Join us for our great line up of on-line sessions!
The first half of 2022 MAGiC is focusing on open source. Our sessions, Jan-May are focused on opening doors for you to learn more about open source topics and tooling. We hope to provide a variety of resources and information to help you on your open source journey on IBM i. In June we plan on having an in person 2 day workshop to bring it all together and provide additional hands on experience!  

A special thanks to Patrick Behr for a great session on Git!

Whether you are curious about open source or a beginner join us to learn from experts in the IBM i community. If you are experienced, join us to share your tips and techniques!


June In Person Workshop! June 6-7, 2022
Modern Development Lifecyle
More information below!

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Upcoming Meetings
Session: Open Doors with More Secure Data
When: April 14, 2022 @ 3:30 Eastern
Presented by: Jose Acosta
Join Jose for next meeting, he will be sharing his expertise on securing your data in web applications. As we open our systems to the web is it more important than ever to ensure your data is secure and only accessible to the correct users.
Session: Open Doors with APIs
When: May 12, 2022 @ 3:30 Eastern
Presented by: Stuart Milligan, Midrange Dynamics solutions architect
Are You a REST API Ace?

In this session, we map what’s needed to develop and support REST APIs at scale. You will learn about
  • REST API Flow – the sequence of events in almost any REST transaction
  • The anatomy of REST APIs – what makes up a REST message
  • A scalable development approach:
  • Specifications
  • Code using templates
  • Connect logic and data
  • Tools vs. Toys – Things to avoid & embrace
Session: In Person Workshop -
Modern Development Workflow
When: June 6-7 2022 - Virginia Beach Oceanfront
Presented by: Jose Acosta, Liam Allan and Patrick Behr
Be Ready To Be WOWED!

Our 2 Day Workshop will definitely wow you! We promise an exciting atmosphere full of learning and networking with IBM i experts and peers! We are excited to have our in-person meeting June 6-7 at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. 

The 2 day workshop will be a mix of hands-on experience and presentations. We will focus on the modern development workflow utilizing Open Source technologies to create web applications.  

Some topics are:
  • VS Code
  • Git and Git Bash
  • Frameworks
  • Bootstrap
  • web APIs
  • ODBC
  • bootstrap
  • Securing data in web apps
  • Plus more!
Past Meetings
Session: Open Doors with Git
When: March 10, 2022 @ 3:30 Eastern
Presented by: Patrick Behr
Git 101

A beginner's look at source change management with Git. We'll cover all the basic concepts and workflow that will get you up and running with Git in no time.
Git is the most popular change management software around, and is also becoming a very popular choice on IBM i.

We’ll learn about local and remote repositories, the local workflow and file status, and discuss branching, merging, and collaborating with others.
Session: Open Doors with Visual Studio Code
When: Feb 10, 2022 @ 3:30 Eastern
Presented by: Liam Allan
We have Liam Allan joining us to present Visual Studio Code and IBM i. In this session Liam will take a look at modern IBM i development when using Visual Studio Code. We will cover editing, compiling, linting and much more! 
Session: Open Doors with Open Source
When: Jan 20, 2022 @ 3:30 Eastern
Presented by: Patrick Behr and Jose Acosta
Our first session to start 2022 will be Open Doors with Open Source! Patrick Behr and Jose Acosta will be sharing with you their best resources and aim to answer your questions about how to get started with open source. We will start with several questions that are commonly asked when getting started. We will then have an extended time for Q&A. If you have a question you would like answered during our session please email the question to admin@magic-ug.org. We will do our best to answer during the session, if we don't get to it we will email you a response. For those of you that are experienced with open source technologies please join our session and share your tips - 
Some of the questions we will cover are:
  • Best overall sites for Open Source questions
  • Install information (Node.js, Php, Python)
  • IDEs
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