Kenny Smith 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
Its opening day today at JavaOne (I was here yesterday for Java University). I’m sitting in the keynote address. Some cool things are being announced, as is typical in any opening general session. I’ll comment when I can, and I’ve got a bunch of other material I’ve been saving up – so expect a lot … Read more
HATS comes bundled with several default templates. Only one or two could reasonably be used in a production environment as they are just downright hideous. A template consists of a JSP, images, and stylesheets. Rather than create a new template each time you do a project, you might want to save the project so that … Read more
I am currently installing WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on Fedora Core 6. Just some tips on this: If you are running Fedora under VMWare ESX as I am, you will hopefully be able to use the Virtual Infrastructure Client. You can download this from the VM host server site. I am using a DVD disc … Read more
If you are new to WebSphere Portal, and setting up a test/staging /production environment, then you should closely familiarize yourself with the XmlAccess interface. This is the command line scripting interface. Yes, you are probably thinking “command line?? why got out of the green screen stone age years ago!”. Well that’s fine and dandy, but … Read more
We’ve all been wondering what’s going on with WebSphere App Server’s near glacial release cycle, which IBM has indicated that it will be 2008 until a certified JEE 5 version appears. Based on what IBM has done with Eclipse and their Rational Software development platform, my guess is that IBM will eventually ditch the original … Read more