MAGiC Updates

Join us for our Annual Conference - Nov 14-15 and 1/2 lab on Nov 16th!

We have finalized our agenda for our Annual Conference!
We are excited to have the following speakers:

Liam Allen
Patrick Behr
Jim Buck
Charlie Guarino
Dan Magid
The hotel block expires on Oct 14th! Register now to secure the great rate of $119/night plus fees and taxes.
A special thank you to our conference sponsors!

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Upcoming Meetings
Session: Annual Conference
When: Nov 14-15, 1/2 Lab Nov 16th
Where: Virginia Beach Oceanfront

Speakers:
  • Liam Allan
  • Patrick Behr
  • Jim Buck
  • Charlie Guarino
  • Dan Magid
Be Amazed by IBM i!
Take this opportunity to network with fellow peers. Join our upcoming Annual MAGiC Conference to tap into our energized IBM i community. Industry-leading educators provide invaluable insight into new and emerging technologies with practical working solutions for your own environment.

We will have a great mix of new technologies and foundational topics for a well-rounded IBM i experience. As always our format is very interactive and the atmosphere will be full of energy and excitement that our conferences are known for!  

Conference Highlights:
  • Procedures and Service Programs
  • RDi
  • Test-Driven Development
  • APIs
  • JSON
  • Git
  • VS Code
  • Git


Registration is open!
Past Meetings
Session: Temporal Tables – Looking Back Into Your Data’s Past
When: Sept 15, 2022 @ 3:30 Eastern
Presented by: Simon Hutchinson
We all work in environments where data is changing, often rapidly. At times it would be nice to know what the data looked like an hour, a day, or even a week ago. With conventional files and tables this is hard, that might even involve restoring data from journals. SQL Temporal Tables alleviates all of that work. They allow you to view the data as it was at any time, and allows many people to view the data at different times all at the same time. Learn how to create a Temporal Table, how to view the data as it was at different times, and even use it to recreate accidentally deleted records.
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 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
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
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