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Warpstock eNewsletter #5

Warpstock 2004 eNewsletter #5

This is the fifth in a series of eNewletters with information about Warpstock 2004, being held October 21-24, in Denver, Colorado. This year's event is shaping up to be a landmark educational event for OS/2-eCS users, developers and supporters, with a rich selection of classes, presentations and tutorials being offered.

This is also a reminder that EARLY BIRD PRICING ends August 15th, so you must act now if you want to take advantage of the best registration prices for Warpstock 2004.

IN THIS ISSUE

Final reminder for EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
More Classes and Presentations confirmed
Getting to Denver/Accommodations

ACT NOW TO GET THE BEST PRICES ON YOUR REGISTRATION

Register for a single day, or for all four days, but REGISTER BY AUGUST 15th to get the best prices. After the 15th, regular pricing will apply. Here's a list of your Early Bird pricing options:

Registration choices (in USD)

  • Warpstock 4-day (+both socials): $195
  • Warpstock 4-day (w/o socials): $145
  • Warpstock Thursday only (w/o social) $60
  • Warpstock Friday only (w/o social) $60
  • Warpstock Saturday only (w/o social) $60
  • Warpstock Sunday only (w/o social) $60

You can register online at our Web Store, http://bamart.com/warpstockinc or download a registration form from the store, or from

http://www.warpstock.org

Classes are included in the base registration price, although there may be some additional costs associated with some classes to cover documentation, etc.

MORE CLASSES AND PRESENTATIONS ADDED

Class:
eCS Installation Workshop
Serenity Systems International will host a 4- hour workshop where hands on installation issues are solved. Bring your PC and get eCS installed and humming.

Class:
Installing and using sVista
Serenity Systems will also host a 4-hour workshop on the installation and operation of sVista.

Presentation:
eCS Roadmap
Serenity Systems will share its plans for the future direction of eComStation. Hear about the new features in upcoming releases.

Presentation:
sVista Roadmap
Serenity will also give a presentation about the future of sVista - where it is going and what new features it will have.

The full line- up of classes, presentations and tutorials can be found at:

http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2004/presentations.html

There's bound to be something that interests you, so check it out. The following presenters have also recently confirmed presentations for Warpstock 2004.

Chuck Berghorn is a former Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM, where he worked on several OS/2-based products, including P/390, S/390 Integrated Server, Multiprise 3000, and the 2074 communications controller.

Chuck is currently a senior architect with an EDA company, but he still uses OS/2 at home for most of his computing needs. Chuck has been involved with the IBM operating system VM/CMS for years and was a very early REXX user. He has created special interfaces between REXX and PL/I (one of his favorite programming languages) and designed a documentation system that used the REXX subcommand interface as its primary command processing environment.

Chuck will give the following presentation at Warpstock 2004...

Presentation:
HiFi Control -- Managing your music with OS/2
Chuck will describe an OS/2-based music server system, using DB2 to store and search all the album titles, track titles and artists. Lyrics can also be indexed, and are searchable. REXX code interfaces with the internet FREEDB cd information service to retrieve title and track information when new CDs are acquired. A java applet lets you build playlists and save playlists.

More than just a music search system, it actually controls up to 16 Pioneer CD changers, each capable of holding 300 CDs. (Currently 3 are installed.) In addition, two "Audiotrons" by turtle beach are also controlled by the system and allow music to be stored on the hard drives (currently 1 terabyte installed) and played via an ethernet LAN and fiber optic cable (toslink) through the main Hi Fi system.

The system interface is through HTML protocol, so any web browser on the LAN can search and play music through the home stereo system. A javascript program highlights what track is currently playing. You can also play an album by scanning the case with a bar code reader.

Chuck's presentation promises to be one of the most "noteworthy" at Warpstock 2004!

Chip Davis learned to program on an IBM 1620 in 1963. For most of his career he was a systems programmer on IBM hardware, but he has spent the last 15 years teaching OS/2 and VM internals, as well as Rexx and Assembler programming. He was one of the authors of the ANSI Standard for Rexx and currently is the Rexx Project Manager for SHARE and President of the Rexx Language Association.

Whenever possible, Chip flies his own plane to class locations.

Presentation:
Parse Rexx - Exposed!
PARSE is arguably the most powerful keyword instruction in Rexx (aside from INTERPRET, of course). The PARSE template allows you to process strings by words, columns, search strings, or any combination of them all. Such power usually comes at a price; many Rexx programmers are intimidated or confused by the more complex templates.

Chip's presentation will use many examples to step through increasingly complex templates, demonstrating the simple yet elegant structure beneath. By the end of the session there won't be a PARSE template that will stump you, Chip says.

GETTING TO DENVER/ACCOMMODATIONS

Warpstock 2004 will be held in the Sheraton Denver Tech Center Hotel. Make your reservation by September 25, and you'll receive the special Warpstock rate of $79 per night for a Standard or Double King room. Ask for the special Warpstock rate when you reserve. For more information:
http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2004/location.html

From Air Canada to US Airways, you have plenty of choices (19 international and US carriers) to reach Denver International Airport. See http://www.flydenver.com/flights/airlines.asp

THE FINE PRINT

This e-newsletter is intended to provide regular communication in the weeks leading up to the event. If you have any feedback, especially positive feedback, write to the Mark Dodel at eNewsReply@warpstock.org

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