With the Russian hack on everyone’s mind, John Rhodes’ SHARE presentation on the security implications of technical debt was well received by attendees.   See the full news release here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08/prweb12093403.htm   Did you like this article about “CM FIRST SPEAKS AT SHARE ON SECURITY & TECHNICAL DEBT” – email us future blog topics to info@cmfirstgroup.com

Mark Schroeder, Senior CA 2E Consultant Do you ever get tired of having to create a workaround so you can avoid showing the ‘blank’ condition description for your status fields?  By default, you have to enter code to retrieve conditions for display on a screen and then, if it is a blank condition, you must

Lorenz Alder, Senior Consultant / Software Architect Be lazy; reduce the number of characters typed into the AD Editor.  You can use Synonyms and Default Instructions to reduce your effort. Choose ‘General Options’ from the File Menu and switch to the ‘Action Diagram’ tab. Tick the ‘Use Defaults’ and ‘Use Synonyms’ boxes. Press ‘Edit Synonyms’

CM First offers an online CM WebClient workshop with hands-on exercises to get you going on web and mobile app enablement fast. The workshop will walk you through the process of creating a mobile and web application with CM WebClient and CA Plex. Then, you’ll package it so that it can be deployed to a

John Rhodes, CTO, has been taking the modernization story on the road.  As a modernization partner with IBM, CM First was represented at the IBM Modernization Forum held May 13-14, 2014 at the IBM Client Center Paris, Bois-Colombes. On June 10-11, the CM First team led the first CA Plex Games in Austin, a training

In previous articles and presentations, CM First has talked about how technical debt, the poorly-written or too-quickly-written code, can keep a company from being able to modernize its applications and exploit capabilities like mobile and cloud.  Even if you don’t plan to modernize yet, technical debt may be costing your company significant revenue because of