Ok, so I’m a bit late saying this, but Happy New Year to all. Guess I missed the party. Yes, its been almost 2 months since our last posting. We’ve neglected you, and we feel like bad hosts. Last month and the beginning of this month was very hectic for us. Nonetheless, we’ll start backup … Read more
Rational Application Developer has always been a bit of a hog on memory. I noticed this neat little feature today. This is available in RAD version 8. It essentially does an immediate garbage collection and reduces the memory footprint of RAD. If your system starts thrashing to your hard drive and you don’t want to … Read more
I received this error while setting up the engine. [Jazz build engine] CRRTC3527E: Operation blocked by process: ‘Control The Build Lifecycle’ failed. Permission denied. You don’t have permission to perform the following actions: Retrieve the Next Build Request (getNextRequest) The solution is to add the Jazz user ID to your project. Open the UI and … Read more
Imagine if your mainframe and distributed development environments were seamlessly integrated, platform choice was removed from the development stage and you could develop across platforms at the same time. No more project delays due to synchronization problems. Increased flexibility. All skill sets could be leveraged without additional training. Planning and reporting would be much easier. … Read more
I get lots of questions about why RTC over subversion. If you are only interested in source code management, and none of the other features, you still have a compelling reason to use RTC over SVN. Here are few examples (courtesy of jazz.net). Storing source code changes: Rational Team Concert v. Subversion Sharing work: Rational … Read more
Do you have secure passwords? (from lifehacker)
In light of a recent issue I had at a client site, I want to share some simple tips that will greatly help you reduce both the amount of SPAM your receive as well as the amount of SPAM you send through your Lotus Domino systems. Yes, I said SEND. One of the largest culprits … Read more
I have a Kindle and am quite fond of it. I find it easy to devour books and my reading has certainly picked up since I got it for my birthday this summer. I’ve put several IBM Redbooks on it for reference whenever I go to a client site. Its nice to be able to … Read more
This will be a bit of a long blog entry, but this is a demonstration of getting Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino up and running on Linux. Lotus recently released this version, and those of us in the community have long awaited a Linux version. Many of our customers who use Quickr are small companies … Read more
Yet another $h17#3@0 virus maker has spawned his evil on the world with this recent “Here you have” virus. This is a version of the old Anna Kournikova virus from 2001, which in turn was a similar variant of the “Love Bug” virus in 2000. I was working at marchFIRST (USWeb ) when the love … Read more