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For those who have not updated their links, this blog is now located at http://blog.strongbackconsulting.com. If you are used to getting it via RSS/ATOM feed, then you can use my the FeedBurner address http://feeds.feedburner.com/StrongbackConsulting. The old URL of “thejavablues.blogspot.com” should be redirecting you. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
I’d like to announce that one of my customers has added some more client’s of their own. Their business is growing well in this down economy. Its another example of how entrepreneurs can thrive in a recession. They are an Internet startup focused on the green movement. I’ve listed them as one of our case … Read more
IBM has released a community edition of its EGL language. This edition is geared for entry level learning such as for colleges and universities. This is a great language that is a natural successor to COBOL. Applications can be created and deployed to mainframes as batch applications, or to Java web applications servers running on … Read more
Blackberry desktop has long been awaited for those Mac users, including my wife who runs on an iMac (and is very happy with it). I would one day like a Mac myself, but there are still so much software that I need from day to day that is restricted (chained) to Windows. For those using … Read more
We will be doing a webinar on Rational Team Concert for System i coming up September 23rd at 11am. In the meantime, here is a video that gives a nice high level over view of RTC. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
IBM Announced XD 6.1.1 last week. This is a refresh pack rather than a fix pack (note the 3rd digit change). You need to be at WAS 6.1.0.25 or 7.0.0.5 before upgrading. The FTP site for the refresh pack CIM is here. New features include: AIX Micro-partitioning uncapped shared processor support enables Virtual Enterprise to … Read more
A very old trick that us old-hats know. If you want to see the contents of a view that is hidden in Lotus Notes, hold down CTRL+SHIFT and select “View – Go To”. The list of available views will show all the hidden ones (denoted by parentheses). You can also do this with creating views. … Read more
This is a funny video on collaboration. I swear the guy is channeling some of my past experiences. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
In April of last year, IBM ceased marketing and selling of the WDSC product. The strategy was to separate out the compilers from the development environment. If you are currently running WDSC and are looking to move forward with it, here is what you need to know: If you purchased WDSC Advanced, you will be … Read more
Just so you are not caught off guard, I’ll be making some changes to this blog in the coming days. The Feed URL will be changing over to FeedBurner, and the primary URL will change from a BlogSpot domain to http://blog.strongbackconsulting.com. The new address currently acts as a redirect to http://thejavablues.blogspot.com. The reason for the … Read more