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For those that install Portal and often download the sources from IBM Partnerworld or Passport Advantage, you know that after you download the whole source, you know its a PITA to decipher what is what in all those part number zip files. I pulled down the IBM Context Accelerator Package. The zip files alone were … Read more
While doodling around on YouTube, I found a few videos on WebSphere App Server. Of those, one was completely about their marketing packaging. This one, however, seemed relatively useful. It covers WAS scripting interface (a.k.a. wsadmin). If you have never bothered before, here are a few things you can do: Repeatable application installation Precise setup … Read more
This note contains links (URLs) to technical support documents regardingIBM Lotus Notes & Domino, as well as links to key information helping youderive the most value from your software licenses, and helping you be thebest possible system administrator. This month’s mailing has six sections: Announcements Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Open Mics/Webcasts & devWorks articles … Read more
For my fellow consultants out there who have not taken the time to get your Lotus Domino 7 update exams out of the way (that would include me), your time is limited. IBM has announced that these update exams will be retired on December 31st. Really, the only reason to get them at this point … Read more
Ubuntu Linux, easily the number one distribution of GNU Linux operating system is due out tomorrow, October 30. If you have never heard of Linux…well… you’ve probably been living under a rock. If you have but never Ubuntu, well it is a pretty compelling replacement for a Windows desktop. IBM has recently added support for … Read more
This is something I get asked about often regarding Rational HATS. Usually the person wants to run a macro on a screen under one circumstance, and display it with a transformation on another circumstance. For example, let’s say you want to combine two disparate screens of read only data. The first time you get to … Read more
IBM has announced that HATS 7.5 will become available on November 26 of this year. While there are no major new features, the largest benefit will be support for the new 7.5 code stream of the development platforms (RSA, RAD, RBD, RDi, RDz, etc), which runs on top of Eclipse 3.4. There is a word … Read more
IBM has released the next version of their software development platform. These are based on Eclipse 3.4 and include the new WebSphere Application Server 7.0 with full Java EE 5.0 support. This includes EJB 3.0 support, JPA support, and the newest web services extensions.http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=897&letternum=ENUS208-305#h2-chargex Starting pricing levels are as follows:Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software: … Read more
So, I have a long diatrabe about standardizing on Firefox and then another open source browser gets released. I’m currently writing this blog post on Google’s new browser Chrome. It is a different experience for sure, but some of the same familiar features that I like such as tabbed browsing, and formatted code when you ‘view … Read more
For those that missed it, IBM release 8.0.2 to Notes on Friday of last week. This release is highly focused on performance. IBM’s goals were to reduce the startup time of the Notes client and improve the overall performance of the Domino server. For some real world measurements, Darren Duke has posted some of his … Read more