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This blog entry popped up on my radar tonight. If you have a HATS project and are suddenly getting and extra ‘Web Content” folder. This, fix will correct the problem. http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/blogs/hats-tricks/2010/01/28/creating-projects-with-hats-v75-after-applying-rad-v755-fix-pack-may-cause-problems Thanks to Gerald Mitchell for the post. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Its also the fastest growing product in IBM’s history. Hmm… Watch to find out. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Just saw this issue pop up on my crawlers. http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/01/lotus-domino-7-probably-8-ldap-heap.html No indication if this is specific to a particular operating system. Secunia, vulnerability intelligence provider, rates this as a moderately critical issue. It is currently unpatched. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
I just saw that IBM released beta 3 of Portal 7 this week. I didn’t see it on my #ls10 radar on twitter, so I guess I’m not following enough Portal geeks out there. New features in Beta 3 include: Tagging allows users (and entire user communities) to classify, organize and structure content autonomously. It … Read more
*** UPDATED 4/2/2010*** new support for Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, Rational Service Tester, Rational Quality Manager, ClearCase and ClearQuest The following is from the IBM Support site. For those preparing to deploy or run the SDP on Windows 7. Note that some products are also supported on a linux desktop environment. Microsoft Windows … Read more
This year, I am sadly missing LotusSphere, IBM’s annual collaboration conference due to some prior commitments. Sigh. I am, however, very intently, watching the blogosphere and the twittersphere for updates, and it appears Lotus is making a LOT of new strides and releasing a dizzying array of new features for their software portfolio. Among those, … Read more
For anyone using Lotus Quickr (formerly Quickplace), the guys at SNAPPS have created some freely available templates for use. Whenever I install Quickr for a customer I often install these templates with the base installation as a bonus.After you’ve installed something repeatedly, you often think ‘hey.. I could script that!’. And so I did. You … Read more
For those (like me) tired of digging through dozens of different URL’s to find the right product support site for the right IBM product, fear no more. IBM has announced the new support portal open for business as of yesterday. As part of the IBM CIO transformation initiative, IBM has developed a best in class … Read more
After several years of development and LOTS of community involvement, Sun has announced the release of Java Enterprise Edition 6 or Java EE 6 for short. Please, please don’t call it J2EE anymore! There is a good article on the Sun Developer site on the new features of Glassfish v3 and JEE6. Another good presentation … Read more
One of the new features WebSphere Application Server 7 is its properties file based configuration. Since version 5 WAS has had a scripting interface called wsadmin (it was an xml interface in prior versions), which is accessed from the WAS_HOME/bin directory as wsadmin.bat or wsadmin.sh. This scripting interface allows live interaction with the server, or … Read more