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Got a heck of a deal on my new T61. Core2duo, 4GB, bluetooth, 100GB 7200 RPM drive, 15″ wide screen, DVD+-RW. All for $1800. Gotta love ebay. Anywhoo, my new machine has Vista Business on it. Being the Linux fan that I am, I am skeptical of it. I want to like it. Its got … Read more
We had a project recently where we have been updating an existing Java application and moving it from JBoss to WebSphere. Now some of you millennials may start thinking this is a backwards move, but its not. It is not one that I am working on, but rather something my colleagues are. Follow me on … Read more
IBM is announcing at the Rational Software Developer conference, Rational Team Concert, a commercial product built on the Jazz project. While this has been buzzing around the Java community since it was demoed at JavaOne last year in 2005. The goal of this project is to be to team collaboration what Eclipse has been to … Read more
InfoQ has an article about Geronimo passing the muster for Java EE 5.http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/geronimo-passes-cts To date the following Java application servers are at Java EE compatibility: JBoss 4.2 (not CTS certified, but JBoss says it supports JEE 5)BEA WebLogic 10GeronimoGlassfish (Sun Application Server)Oracle Application Server 11Apusic Application Server 5.0 (….and no, I’ve never heard of thus … Read more
Many thanks to Timothy J Masse who wrote down the directions and included a few steps I missed (like changing from dash to bash). Here they are step for step: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf/5f27803bba85d8e285256bf10054620d/f683185b98129dd7852572ea001db523?OpenDocument ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Optimus Solutions will be holding 3 separate Lotusphere comes to you events in Atlanta, Tampa, and Chicago. Yours truly will be presenting a couple of presentations: WebSphere Portal Express 6IBM has always excelled at products for the enterprise, especially when it comes to extremely scalable, high performance apps. WebSphere Portal is embodies exactly that approach … Read more
Ed Brill made the announcement last night on his blog. I have been running the beta on both my windows partion and my Ubuntu Linux partition. The Linux version of Notes has allowed me to work in my Linux partition near 90 percent of the time, which makes my computer a joy to use. Beta … Read more
After my experience at JavaOne, I now see the different types of revenue streams that can be generated off of open source software. Sun has certainly managed to increase their profits by doing so. Solaris adoption is increasing rapidly, especially now that there are forks of Solaris such as Nexenta (which is basically Ubuntu with … Read more
This is now my second trip to SFO for JavaOne. After being at LotusSphere in March (where IBM announced Notes 8 Beta), I’ll have to say this is the better conference to attend. I’m also going to the Rational Software Developer Conference in Orlando in June, and I have my doubts about it. JavaOne has … Read more
Interesting post from Slashdot on what Sun has announced regarding FX (I mentioned in my previous blog). http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3676226. This was announced less than 12 hours ago at JavaOne. I have not been to any sessions on it as of yet, but it does seem like an AJAX competitor (some say killer). Its amazing how quickly … Read more