Today, a friend and business colleague of mine sent out this notice via LinkedIn LinkedIn Mike Ostrowski has sent you a message. Date: 7/13/2009 Subject: Help for my friend Hello All, I normally would not use linkedin for this…but…I have a dear friend who is battling cancer and has had to travel to Houston for … Read more
This is one I’ve been meaning to post for sometime, but always forget. Let’s say you have a HATS screen transformation that you’ve worked for hours to get pixel perfect. It looks gorgeous. You deploy it and then your users come back to you and say they that when they get into an error condition, … Read more
The ruler of the known universe, Google, has announced that they are taking the Beta label off of Gmail after many years of being in this program. Gmail is probably the most famous beta software of all! While most of us had expected the beta program to go on forever, there are some good lessons … Read more
The Jazz team has released RTC 2.0. I’ve just updated my server and migrated the database repository. Here is an overview of what’s new in RTC 2.0: For those that are not familiar with Team Concert, this is the coolest thing since sliced bread. It is THE tool for software development project planning, management, source … Read more
Ed Brill noted today that IBM has chosen to drop plans for future support of DAMO from the Lotus Domino roadmap. Its an interesting position that IBM is taking. As a consultant, I’ve always had some various compatibility issues with DAMO, particularly in the corner cases that Ed mentions. Now that the Notes client has … Read more
If your organization has no real version control system or your idea of version control is making a copy of your rpgle source code in your library (you AS/400 folks know who you are), well, check out Team Concert Express C. Its a free version of Team Concert and runs on Windows or Linux. We’ve … Read more
I am posting one of my presentations from my HATS curriculum online from SlideShare.net. While I won’t post my entire curriculum (which would be giving away my business product), I will post some information which is badly needed out there, yet is so readily available if you only knew where to go. If you or … Read more
For many who are just getting started with Rational HATS, understanding the widgets and components are the easy part. They often come from an RPG or COBOL background (i.e. green screen development). What is greek to them is usually the web page customization and especially the cascading style sheets. I thought I would write today … Read more
As I blogged earlier, I have am giving a presentation at this year’s Rational conference in Orlando. Due to some scheduling shifts, my presentation has been renumbered and moved. I will be presenting on Wednesday June 3rd at 11:15am. Mine will be for generic audiences, but will have some technical details for the geeks like … Read more
As I have recently found out by the school of hard knocks, these two do not mix when Java EE web container security is enabled. Background: Struts2 is the follow on to the very popular and ubiquitous framework Apache Struts. Struts2 is actually a combination of Struts and WebWorks and is a really slick framework. … Read more