Kenny Smith I got an email this week from IBM letting me know that IBM is hosting an open beta for Rational Application Developer v7.5. You’ll need an IBM id to download it. Finally, we have support for JEE5 and EJB 3.0!! From the email, this version includes: Increased support for iterative development for JEE5 applications that … Read more
I missed this update from IBM last month, but anyone using Portlet factory can and should update to this fix pack. The fix pack was available for download on Nov. 13. From the article: What’s new in WebSphere Portlet Factory V6.0.2 software: Support for deploying applications to Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Notes® environments, enabling developers … Read more
I was recently asked what Firefox plugins I use. Here is my list: AdBlock Plus – Block embedded HTML which pulls ads from other sites and slows your PC down.ColorZilla – An eye dropper tool that allows you to get RGB or HEX values for any color on a web site.CSSViewer – See the applied … Read more
Saw this come across the IBM support wire. Great information if you are considering using the Rich Client Platform for your HATS applications. For those of you not familiar with Java Web Start (or JWS), it is a Java feature that allows users to install an application dynamically with one click from within their browser. … Read more
Ed Brill did a pre-announcement of Lotus Sametime version 8 on his blog.http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/sametime/getthebuzz/ While I have not seen the product yet, it should be available for partners and customers for download via Partnerworld and Passport Advantage on November 29. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Fedora Linux 8 was released last week, and I’ve been playing with it since then. Fedora is an ever increasingly popular Linux distribution. It is not as popular as Ubuntu for the desktop, but has a growing audience. So, why Fedora? First its supported by Red Hat, and subsequently uses much of the same packages … Read more
A word of note. As I have found out by recent experience, upgrading users via SmartUpgrade has some issues. If you use the web kit (the attached kit), it does not accept any parameters. You can verify this by calling the executable from a command line and passing parameters (i.e. /s /v”SELECTINSTALLFEATURES=Activities,Sametime,Editors /qb+”). It will … Read more
This is a handy file for stopping and ending Trend’s real time scanning. @echo offecho Stopping Trend Micro Real Time Scanning….net stop tmlistennet stop OfcPfwSvcnet stop ntrtscanpause Copy the above into a text file, and rename the text file with a ‘.bat’ extension. Click away, and watch your PC begin to perform better. This is … Read more
I recently upgraded a customer from Domino 7 to Domino 8 on the iSeries (a.k.a i5, System i, AS/400… or whatever IBM’s marketing whim is this month). In the process Domino 7 uses the default Java 1.4 JDK (5722JV1, Option 6). IBM has built Domino 8 to support Java 5.0, and therefore requires the Java … Read more
I’m a little late in posting this, but IBM is beta testing a new version of Portal. Log in to download. You can run this version side by side with a 6.0 installation. https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/lotus/wps61beta/ ©2016 Strongback Consulting