Kenny Smith This year, IBM has launched the “Power Your Innovation” track at Innovate 2010 (t.c.f.k.a Rational Software Conference). This all-new track will feature: a program of skill-building sessions customers presentations hands-on technical workshops an impressive lineup of speakers and panel participants (especially that Kenny Smith guy). Mark your calendars and make plans to be part of … Read more
If you like me, often want to know what the current status is of a particular product, check out this link and bookmark it for later. It gives you the product lifecycle dates of various Rational products and associated versions of those products. The site answers the questions: When did a product version get released? … Read more
Last year, IBM announced it was withdrawing Rational ClearCase LT from marketing , meaning end of the road for the product. For a few years, IBM had positioned CCLT (with disappointing results) as a competitor to Subversion (which it really wasn’t). To be fair, CCLT does thinks Subversion does not – such as distributed storage, … Read more
Several bloggers had posted issues with an error message in their logs on Domino 7.0.4, 7.0.4.1, 8.0.2.2, 8.0.2.3, 8.0.2.4, 8.5.0.1, 8.5.1, and 8.5.1 FP1. This error will show in your log file as “The collection has become invalid.” It is caused by a fix to another SPR where in your LotusScript or Java code, you … Read more
As you begin working with RTC and work items, you’ll find you have similar work items – they have similar titles, or affect the same artifact, etc. You can link work items to others so that as you or the assignee start to work on these items, the owner is aware that whatever he/she does … Read more
Vi is to the Linux/Unix world as ‘edit’ is to MS-DOS. If you use Vi, you are probably aware of vim, which a more robust tool, but very similar. I won’t dive into the whole history – goto Wikipedia for that. Unless you have specifically installed Vim on Ubuntu or modified the .vimrc file on … Read more
Team Concert is such a cool flexible tool, and there are so many features that its easy to miss, yet its easy to get started with. It just ‘grows’ as your environment needs. I learned a few things from this video and and just have to share. I really like that you can edit code … Read more
If you are installing the new Rational Team Concert for Power Systems (RTCp), which is the follow on to RTCi, there are a few common installation issues you might run into. First, be sure and check all the system requirements for the product. RTCp server can be installed on i/OS, AIX, and Windows. I highly … Read more
Now, I am excited. I just got confirmed as a speaker at the Rational conference this June, now dubbed “IBM Innovate”. This makes my fourth straight year of this conference, and my second year presenting. I submitted 3 abstracts, but this is the one that got accepted. Here is my session abstract: Session: PWR-1068A: Spicing … Read more
No, I’m not in the dating marking. Actually we are looking for some help as Strongback is growing these days. I’m posting here since I get much more traffic than the web site. Eventually, we’ll have a careers section. Here are the positions we are considering: Account ExecutiveExperienced sales executive skilled in the ways and … Read more