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I rarely work with storage systems – I’m a software guy. But on occasion I need to manipulate storage arrays for either performance tuning, or new installations. IBM has a new product group of storage called their “D-series”, which is geared toward mid-sized businesses and they’ve put out a training site to help customers get … Read more
The Jazz team announced that RTC will support VS2010 in RTC version 2.0.0.2 iFix3, which is currently at milestone 1 build. This includes full client support on Windows 7. This build is primarily for developers that work with VS – if you don’t work with VS, then you can/should ignore the build. The interim fixes … Read more
I’ve tried to explain this topic in a couple of classes that I teach, but I can do no better than Andrei Zmievski’s post on SlideShare. This guy’s post is so excellent – it is THE best education source on Regular Expressions that I think I’ve ever seen. [slideshare id=3932758&doc=regexclinicforslideshare-100501144735-phpapp02] That said, sometimes as a … Read more
Netmarketshare, a site that analyzes Internet technology trends, posts that IE6 is down to 17.58% in April. Firefox 3.6 nearly matches that, and Firefox 3.5 adds another 5.8%. If you are not building your Internet or Intranet sites to match the features of modern browsers, you are missing out. If your development shop is STILL … Read more
If you have any of the following products, when you move to the next release, you will experience a change in how you obtain your licenses. Rational Developer for System i 7.5 (now re-branded as Developer for POWER systems) Rational Developer for System z 7.6 Previously the license file as a java .jar file obtained … Read more
IBM is offering a special this month on Rational Team Concert, whereby you can get 7 additional free developer client access licenses for free. They have also dropped the server prices by about half for Express, Standard, and Enterprise. This means, that with the Express edition server, you an enable your entire team for under … Read more
Rational Software Architect has a much underutilized feature called Software Analyzer built into the product. It is separately available as its own product. It allows the developer/architect to scan and identify build patterns and anti-patterns in a workspace, working set, or specific project in the developer workspace.These are very helpful to identify potential performance issues. … Read more
For those who missed our webinar last week on the updated tools from Rational, I’m posting the presentation here (thanks to Slideshare). If you want the audio… well.. .you’ll just have to give one of us a call here at the office and we’ll reenact it. O.K.? What’s New in Rational Software for POWER Systems … Read more
We all do it. We get into a funk when designing applications, or we just take what we are given by our wizardy-like design interfaces. As such we get stuck in the same rut of using the same old design elements and styles and forget that there are a plethora of HTML/XHTML tags that we … Read more
I picked up on this from a twitter post. LotusLive, which is IBM’s cloud email and collaboration offering, just got some new integrations with Salesforce.com, Skype, and Silanis e-Sign. ©2016 Strongback Consulting