ISSN 1911-4915 · TUG · VOLUME 25 NUMBER 4 · APRIL 2010 Technical Education Conference (TEC 2010) Guide The Odyssey Continues — April 27-29, 2010 Email: [email protected] Keynote Speakers: Larry Augustin Zeev Suraski Ian Jarman PHP Mobile App Dev Power7 Open Source Modernization 17th Annual Technical Education Conference Seneca @ York University Publications Mail Agreement No. 40907015 - Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: TUG, 850 - 36 Toronto Street, Toronto, ON M5C 2C5 - - ON M5C 2C5 Toronto, Street, Toronto 850 - 36 to: TUG, addresses Canadian undeliverable - Return 40907015 Publications Mail Agreement No. www.tug.ca/tec TEC 2010 Platinum Sponsor SPECIAL TEC 2010 PRE-CONFERENCE EDITION CONTENTSAPRIL 2010 VOLUME 25 NUMBER 4 President’s Message 2 By Léo Lefebvre teC 2010 The Odyssey COnTinues 5 GTA TEC Market Feedback. By Mark Buchner teC 2010 Keynote sPeaKer Larry augustin 7 We are very fortunate to have Larry Augustin, an industry icon from Silicon Valley in California, as our featured TEC conference keynote speaker. the agenda 8 Our next MoM (April 27, 2010) is scheduled on the first evening of TEC 2010. The featured speaker will be IBM’s Ian Jarman, on Power“ Systems in 2010 and Beyond”. BreaKing into MoBiLe aPPLiCations on the BLaCKBerry sMartPhone 9 The reality of contemporary business is that it happens away from home as much as it happens at home. By Shawn Derby the Kryos VeLoCity teaM 11 Our Platinum Sponsor Kryos Velocity is providing four great speakers at TEC 2010: Tom Everett, Bill McNaughton, Amanda Summers, and Laurie Desautels. teC 2010 sPonsors 13 A special thank you to all of our generous sponsors who make the conference possible! . See back page for details … Modernizing LegaCy Ca:2e & rPg aPPLiCations 14 The objective in a true modernization project is to extract the essence or design of the legacy application and reuse these designs as appropriate. By Stuart Milligan World Peace World seneCa uPdate & tug/seneCa award 20 The award winner for the Fall 2009 semester is Nick Armentano. By Russell Pangborn 22 waLKthrough of teC 2010 Main traCKs iBM i goes weB: 25 Zend’s Zeev Suraski on PHP and IBM i tug MoM reView 27 Our last meeting was a joint presentation with IBM Canada: “Unleash the Power of Innovation” at the IBM Toronto Lab. By Mark Buchner JaCKie’s foruM WDB2 Web Query Meets Excel can’t, . And if you then envision 30 With the announcement of the DB2 Web Query Spreadsheet Client, a user need never leave the Excel environment. By Jackie Jansen the goLd Page 31 Directory of TUG’s elite “Gold Members” Whirled Peas tug notes 32 Things you need to know — including a summary of upcoming events Envision Envision TORONTO USERS GROUP for Power Systems – April 2010 1 By Léo Lefebvre, President, TORONTO USERS GROUP PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE for Power Systems APRIL 2010 hose of you who know TUG well know what we are doing these days (and more precisely what Twe have been doing since last September) that will be presented on April 27 – 29, 2010. Yes, you guessed it! ... our annual Technical Education Conference (TEC for short). In this twenty fifth TUG season, the TEC team is once again preparing our seventeenth edition of this famous conference. We have always had fantastic speakers at the conference, presenting equally fantastic sessions to attendees who are always thrilled with their priceless experience. Some of us have been working on this conference since day one, back in September of 1993. I am still working on preparations for the conference and I will be—until a few weeks after it’s over, but I TUG President Léo Lefebvre on his recent sojourn in Hong Kong thought I should take a break and tell you a few things about this year’s event. Now in 2010, at the start of a new decade sessions will then be able to take advantage Over the years, we have seen a few changes (and as I said before—our seventeenth of that equipment and offer “on-the-fly” in the conference organization and TEC) we’re again making changes to our and quick demos. presentation. conference format. The biggest change this year is the move to a different venue: And speakers! What a great line up of We first started with a two-day conference Seneca College at the York University speakers we were able to attract! Just in ‘94, then we tried three days, to finally campus. mentioning names like Larry Augustin, come back to the original format. In 2004, CEO of SugarCRM; Zeev Suraski co- we started having labs sessions at the IBM Moving to Seneca College for TEC allows founder of Zend Technology; and Ian Toronto Lab facilities in Markham. And in us to re-evaluate our offerings and to reach Jarman, Power Systems Software Manager 2006, we returned to the three day format a brand new clientele along with our regular is already quite a line up on its own! But again, when we segregated the lab exercises and loyal IBM i community. what about speakers like Mel Beckman, from the tutorial sessions. Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, Alison Butterill, In the “new offerings” section we could and Claus Weiss? So many speakers—I mention sessions on networking at all levels don’t have enough room to list them all including Blackberry, more AIX sessions, here. Please check the TEC website (www. good coverage of PHP in general, and tug.ca/tec) for more details. i-related subjects. Well, I could tell you a lot more about Being located in classrooms at a TEC 2010 but I don’t have enough room “professional college” allows us to use many in this column, and frankly, I still have of the college facilities. So, what is quite many things to complete. So, I’ll get back is coming soon... exciting about the presentations this year is to my work and I will hopefully see you all How shall we celebrate? that many of them are offered in classrooms at Seneca College on the York University equipped with computer equipment. Many campus April 27 & 28. TG 2 TORONTO USERS GROUP for Power Systems – April 2010 DRV Flex Tools Give You Flexibility You’ve Never Had Before! • Reduce Paper Waste and Save Money. A Lot! • Increase Efficiency With Automated Processing. • Lower Report and Document Delivery Costs. 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