This year, I am sadly missing LotusSphere, IBM’s annual collaboration conference due to some prior commitments. Sigh. I am, however, very intently, watching the blogosphere and the twittersphere for updates, and it appears Lotus is making a LOT of new strides and releasing a dizzying array of new features for their software portfolio. Among those, … Read more
For anyone using Lotus Quickr (formerly Quickplace), the guys at SNAPPS have created some freely available templates for use. Whenever I install Quickr for a customer I often install these templates with the base installation as a bonus.After you’ve installed something repeatedly, you often think ‘hey.. I could script that!’. And so I did. You … Read more
For those (like me) tired of digging through dozens of different URL’s to find the right product support site for the right IBM product, fear no more. IBM has announced the new support portal open for business as of yesterday. As part of the IBM CIO transformation initiative, IBM has developed a best in class … Read more
After several years of development and LOTS of community involvement, Sun has announced the release of Java Enterprise Edition 6 or Java EE 6 for short. Please, please don’t call it J2EE anymore! There is a good article on the Sun Developer site on the new features of Glassfish v3 and JEE6. Another good presentation … Read more
One of the new features WebSphere Application Server 7 is its properties file based configuration. Since version 5 WAS has had a scripting interface called wsadmin (it was an xml interface in prior versions), which is accessed from the WAS_HOME/bin directory as wsadmin.bat or wsadmin.sh. This scripting interface allows live interaction with the server, or … Read more
Ed Brill posted this earlier today http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/147-roi-for-upgrading-to-notesdomino-8.5-forrester-webcast Forrester Research’s Ted Schadler and Jon Erickson spoke with numerous Lotus customers who had completed the upgrade, and calculated the economic benefits in aggregate. The result: An astounding 147% ROI for upgrading to Notes/Domino 8.5, with a payback period of only one year. This is a fantastic point … Read more
IBM is working on the next release of WebSphere Portal and is gathering information from the community on how to improve the overall experience. If you have Portal or are considering using Portal, you might be interested in seeing what is coming in the new year with Portal : Enhanced theme support enables addition of … Read more
Spring Framework is a Java API framework that has captured the hearts of many developers. The latest release from SpringSource, the company who sponsors the project announced the latest release. Key features include: Spring expression language (SpEL), Extended support for annotation-based components, standardized dependency injection annotations, declaration model validation based on constraint annotations, comprehensive REST … Read more
The most recent milestone for RTC snuck out the door last night. Most notable is support for the Eclipse 3.5 client. Another new feature is work item templates. These can be created from an existing set of work items, and then be used to create new work items. template creation wizard also lets you to … Read more
I guess it was just a matter of time before it happened, but I like the change. IBM has rebranded their Rational Software Conference to the ‘Innovate Conference“. After having merged the WebSphere Technical Exchange and SOA conference into “Impact”, it only makes sense to rebrand the Rational Conference. Tivoli is the “Pulse” conference. This … Read more