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IBM is working on the next release of WebSphere Portal and is gathering information from the community on how to improve the overall experience. If you have Portal or are considering using Portal, you might be interested in seeing what is coming in the new year with Portal : Enhanced theme support enables addition of … Read more
Spring Framework is a Java API framework that has captured the hearts of many developers. The latest release from SpringSource, the company who sponsors the project announced the latest release. Key features include: Spring expression language (SpEL), Extended support for annotation-based components, standardized dependency injection annotations, declaration model validation based on constraint annotations, comprehensive REST … Read more
The most recent milestone for RTC snuck out the door last night. Most notable is support for the Eclipse 3.5 client. Another new feature is work item templates. These can be created from an existing set of work items, and then be used to create new work items. template creation wizard also lets you to … Read more
I guess it was just a matter of time before it happened, but I like the change. IBM has rebranded their Rational Software Conference to the ‘Innovate Conference“. After having merged the WebSphere Technical Exchange and SOA conference into “Impact”, it only makes sense to rebrand the Rational Conference. Tivoli is the “Pulse” conference. This … Read more
Ed Brill once mentioned this guy on his blog and I go back and check it every once in a while. He’s been blogging about his company’s move from Notes to Exchange and the effects its had. There are some real eye-opening comments for both IBM and Microsoft fans. His last post was back in … Read more
For all IBM customers: I’d like to be sure you are aware that there are some pending changes to IBM’s partnering strategy that will affect you moving forward. In February 2009, IBM Software Group announced to its Business Partners the next step in its channel strategy. This announcement was in response to requests from IBM’s … Read more
In today’s world we often measure the worth of an item by its retail price or discounted status at a store while rarely contemplating the quality of the work, how long it may last, or even how much pleasure will obtain from the object. Certainly we have our budgets to maintain, but there are times … Read more
Another fixpack released. To update, use the IBM Installation Manger to upgrade. You no longer are required to use the old Eclipse style of update. Installation Manager is much faster and cleaner. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&context=SSXKAY&dc=D400&uid=swg24024964&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8〈=enCheck out the release notes here. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
I had a recent event where after a fix pack, the Domino server would not start using Windows service. I could start it using the Domino console, but that would not work as the server would shut down as soon as logged out. I kept getting a cryptic error 2351 (0x92). The simple solution was … Read more
Currently the Rational Team Concert build engine does not include an init.d script for those running build engines on Linux. This is analogous to Windows services and allow the jbe to run automagically at startup. Instead, you must rely on system administrators having the knowledge of how to write these from scratch. Currently there is … Read more