May, 2008
by Margaret Greenberg and Barry Sokolik
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Claire Cates presents the first of three continuing articles on Threads: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This month's issue will cover The Good, the June issue will present The Bad and the July or August issue will finish up with The Ugly.
Phil Mason has another helpful SAS tip in Application Response Measurement.
Adrian Cockroft begins a four part series on Headroom Plots with Introducing R.
Scott Chapman provides a CICS tip in Check your LE run-time parameters: significant CICS CPU savings may be available
Denise Kalm interviews Michael Salsburg in Getting to Know the 2007 Mullen Award Winner, Michael Salsburg. Be sure to read this so you know what's in the mind of such a memorable CMG member. For those of you not familiar with the Mullen award, it's given to an individual who exhibits both technical excellence and an engaging presentation style
Dr. Thomas E. Bell continues his Retirement series with Preparation for your final career: Medicare. Joseph Delano provides a companion piece, Consider a Strategy to fund your long term care.
Denise Kalm continues to talk about self improvement and how to make a positive impression in job interviews in My Resume is Ready - Now What?- Part 2.
Jaqui Lynch, the CMG'08 General Chair, invites you to the really wonderful conference that is being planned for you in Get Excited about CMG'08
Membership Chair, Shana Bereznay tells us about an amazing offer from CMG in Become a New Member and Measure Savings.
Seeking volunteers for CMG'08:
Denise Kalm seeks mentors immediately, and Margaret Greenberg requests referees and editors in Appeal for mentors, referees and editors
Tom Kelman lists the known June Regional meetings in June CMG Regional Meetings .
We have reviews of the following regional meetings:
If one of these regional meetings is near you, please consider going to the regional website to check for your next opportunity to learn more about CMG and to get important capacity and performance information first hand.
Unfortunately, by the time this issue is published you will have missed the May 22 meeting of CMG Italy in Milan. Some of the topics to be covered are presented in Italy XXII. We look forward to the June issue when the highlights of that meeting should be described.
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