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For those of you going to IBM InterConnect next week, we will be presenting the following sessions. Session Schedule Number Title Where When 2365A Patterns and Antipatterns for Adopting IBM DevOps Tools Mandalay Bay SOUTH – Surf Ballroom A Wed, 24-Feb 08:30 AM – 09:30 AM 2381A Tips for Developing and Testing IBM Host Access … Read more
A common anti-pattern for the Jazz tools (RTC, RQM, and DNG) is using them in place of a true help desk application. Help desk apps are designed to handle the recording of calls to the desk, categorizing the problems, and assisting the call agent with remediating those problems. In some cases a help desk system … Read more
IBM has an extensive catalog of desktop products, especially for application and database development. Some of those tools offer features and functions that can only be realized when combined with another product. In such cases, the products need to be installed into the same Eclipse package. This presentation shows you how to combine, deploy, and … Read more
Some of the IBM software can include multiple multi-gigabyte files, all of which are required for installation. IBM Rational Application Developer is good example. Using the normal windows unzip functionality can make for a bit of a tangled mess of a download directory if you’re not careful. I’ve been working with this software for over … Read more
Why unit testing? Any developer worth their salt, uses unit tests to validate that their code satisfies the task or tasks the code is supposed to do. Unit testing encourages modular development. Junit for Java was one the first and certainly the most well known. Other frameworks for other languages have popped up all over … Read more
Strongback will be hosting two presentations this year. These are in the DevOps tracks, and in the Mandalay Bay side of the conference. DAX-5162 : C-ing is Believing: Being Smart about C/C++ Development on AIX and Linux Session Type : Meet the ExpertsDate/Time : Tuesday Feb 24, 12 –12:50 PM (Pacific Time)Venue : Mandalay Bay Expo HallRoom : Dev Ops & CE … Read more
Here is another presentation we did a the IBM Innovate conference in June 2014. Using HATS to create web services from 5250 or 3270 terminal applications is a common use case for HATS. You can also consume services either in the interface (i.e. RESTful or JSON), or through HATS macros or Business Logic (i.e. custom HATS … Read more
Consolidate your CSS There is no reason to have more than 3 stylesheets in your application (with a few notable exceptions). In most cases, 1 will suffice. If you have a CSS for every page, you are doing it very very wrong. CSS should be reused across multiple pages. If the page is supposed to … Read more
We’ve been having a hell of a time with Salesforce contact form spam as of late. Its been littered with junk about cheap Air Jordans, Louis Vitton bags, and other assorted hijack links. In the course of a week, we could have as many as 300 new “leads”, all of which were spam, and that … Read more
Moving from SEU/PDM to Rational Developer for i? This month we presented at the annual IBM Innovate Conference in Orlando several topics on the various IBM Rational tools. Rational Developer for i (RDi) is the IDE of choice for editing, verifying, analyzing, and managing RPG, COBOL, and C/C++ on the IBM i (i.e the AS/400). … Read more