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Guru: For IBM i Newcomers, An Access Client Solutions Primer

March 1, 2021 Rob McNelly

I enjoy reading about IBM i Fresh Faces. Sure, it’s refreshing to see that it’s not just graybeards like me who are working on the platform, but what really matters is that young people are learning about, getting hands-on with, and coming to love IBM i. I appreciate that many of these stories revolve around system/application modernization and open source solutions. This gives newcomers to IBM i a degree of comfort by reducing their learning curve.

Learning any new technology is challenging. Specifically, how do you go from learning about the concepts to actually getting on a machine and …
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Sometimes Folks Only Learn The Hard Way About Keeping Software Current

February 1, 2021 Rob McNelly

School’s been out for me for a very long time, but I still enjoy learning. I gain a sense of satisfaction whenever I learn something new. Specific to technology, exposure to new concepts helps me understand how things work together. I cannot count the number of times where I watched over someone’s shoulder, or watched someone on a shared screen, to learn about a new tool or technique, or a different way to set up my desktop or environment.

Watching and listening to people is my preferred way to learn, but other forms of education – reading IBM Redbooks and …
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