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Written by Chris Smith
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Monday, 12 July 2010 18:34 |
Last chance to fill the few remaining slots available at the West Coast's premier education conference and expo.
The emphasis will be on new technologies and modernization when the OCEAN User Group kicks off its 17th Annual Catch the Wave Technical Conference Friday, July 16, at National University in Costa Mesa, Calif.
Bob Tipton
The always popular Jon Paris and Susan Gantner will be on hand to offer the latest tips on modernization techniques. Susan will host several sessions including, "Top 10 Things RPGers Must Know," "Open Up with Special Files," and "MySQL-DB2 Connections," while Jon will conduct sessions on "Application Modernization," "PHP Intro for RPGers," and Re-thinking Your Documentation." Other speakres include: Craig Pelkie, Dave Brown, Jeff Olen, and Mike Pavlak. There will be five educational tracks and more than 30 sessions as well as a table-top vendor expo.
Time is down to the wire, so if you haven't already registered, but you want to attend, contact Conference Chairman Bob Langieri at staff@ocean400.org, or call him at 949-240-0438. Registration is only $200 for OCEAN members, $300 for non-members, and you can join the organization before Friday to qualify for the member discount. For more information including the session schedule, visit http://www.ocean400.org.
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Chris Smith |
| About the Author: |
| Chris Smith is the Senior News Editor at MC Press Online and is responsible for the news content on the company's Web site. Chris has been writing about the IBM midrange industry since 1992 when he signed on with Duke Communications as West Coast Editor of News 3x/400. With a bachelor's from the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in English and minored in Journalism, and a master's in Journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Chris later studied computer programming and AS/400 operations at Long Beach City College. An award-winning writer with two Maggie Awards, four business books, and a collection of poetry to his credit, Chris began his newspaper career as a reporter in northern California, later worked as night city editor for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and went on to edit a national cable television trade magazine. He was Communications Manager for McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Long Beach, Calif., before it merged with Boeing, and oversaw implementation of the company's first IBM desktop publishing system there. An editor for MC Press Online since 2007, Chris has authored some 300 articles on a broad range of topics surrounding the IBM midrange platform that have appeared in the company's five industry-leading newsletters. He can be reached at csmith@mcpressonline.com. | | Read More >> | |
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