Kenny Smith You know the guy. Mid 50’s, slightly balding. Never wears his reading glasses when he needs them. Always has his signature stained coffee cup with him that reads “Home is where my tools are”. There are pictures on his desk of him fishing with his grandkids. He’s a malcontent, and loves to complain about office … Read more
I’m participating in Portal 6.1 training today. Good stuff. Here’s a screen cap from one of the presentations which shows what’s going to be new in Rational Application Developer 7.5 and WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.1. The biggie is support for JSR 286, the new Portlet API. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Gotta love YouTube. Someone managed to get a bootleg video of his monologue. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
AppScan is one of IBM’s new acquisitions from WatchFire software. Since the bluewash (IBM’s term for converting the marketing, logos and colors within an application to that of IBM’s), they have now released a developer edition with does static code analysis, dynamic analysis, and runtime analysis of an application to detect security vulnerabilities such as … Read more
So its already in Beta, and can be downloaded with Rational Application Developer 7.5 public beta. I’m previewing it now to check out the features and to see how it compares to my previous list of ‘must haves’. When I was talking with the devs at RSDC, they said that it should go gold in … Read more
At the Rational Conference last week, I found out that IBM is once again rebranding the iSeries. Actually, they are merging the hardware branding with System p. It only makes sense as the hardware has mostly been identical coming off the assembly line. Now you have one hardware line, but many choices as to what … Read more
Ever seen pictures of these home computers decked out with LEDs and plexiglass? Well, I have all the pc gamers beat now. This is IBM’s new Z10 mainframe taken this week at the Rational Software Developer’s Conference in Orlando. This is a lower end unit and only has one CPU card in it. That is … Read more
As Ed Brill pointed out on his blog. the beta 1 of Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 is now available. Of not is that Designer is now delivered on the Eclipse platform. I have not looked yet, but I hope that this will also be delivered on the Linux platform. I’m also hoping that it … Read more
Have you ever wanted to deploy an application with certain parameters without having to click through all the web pages in the Integrated Console? Think redeploying an application after debugging. If you have miss one of the settings, you’ll have to redeploy it all over again. Ever wanted to set up multiple WAS machines identically? … Read more
I got a spam email from NewEgg the other day offering a 2GB SD card for under $10. It really amazes me just how cheap storage is these days, and how small it is getting. My first computer in 1994 cost me a little over $2000 (on an 18% interest credit card – thank you … Read more