Just so you are not caught off guard, I’ll be making some changes to this blog in the coming days. The Feed URL will be changing over to FeedBurner, and the primary URL will change from a BlogSpot domain to http://blog.strongbackconsulting.com. The new address currently acts as a redirect to http://thejavablues.blogspot.com. The reason for the … Read more
It has previously been difficult to find information specific to the mainframe for Team Concert. Now, the jazz team has moved Team Concert for System z to its own project page. For those looking for information on the product specific to System z, here is the link: https://jazz.net/projects/rational-team-concert-z/ The product is at version 1.0.1.1 status … Read more
Wow.. I did not see this one coming. Spring Framework has been the golden child of the Java community, often favoring their simple Inversion of Control (IoC) in favor of the more complex Java EE frameworks such as EJB. http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/vmware-springsource VMWare is the top dog in virtualization (Strongback is partner), so it looks like the … Read more
I love this. This is a follow on to last year’s SlideShare best presentation winner. This is wickedly cool. Yes, there are a few f-bombs in there, but some great statistics on social media. This should make you wonder how you can take advantage of social media/social software from within your enterprise. What the F**K … Read more
This week I went to the first meeting of the rebirth of the Central Florida WebSphere Users Group in Orlando. There were mostly IBM’ers there and only 3 people (including myself) not from IBM. Nonetheless they had some great content. Nii-Boi Koi did a great presentation on WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition (FTE), which appears … Read more
The About Us page is on nearly every website, and usually contains the typical corporate drivel. It is the most overlooked page, yet one of the most common page that is viewed on a web site. I was listening to BoagWorld podcast #173 and mentioned a site that has taken on the About Us page … Read more
Here is an issue that has cropped up on the 7.x release of HATS. Its very very minor one, but can eat up a bunch of hours to troubleshoot. Lets say you have a popup selection widget, and specify you want it to display with the image rather than a button or link. Let’s also … Read more
I have recently been upgrading my Jazz/Team Concert environment to version 2.0 from 1.0. I’m using the Express-C version which is based on Apache Tomcat and Derby. These versions come in a zip file format and can easily be extracted out on a Linux server and started with minimal configuration. Upgrading from one to the … Read more
Today, a friend and business colleague of mine sent out this notice via LinkedIn LinkedIn Mike Ostrowski has sent you a message. Date: 7/13/2009 Subject: Help for my friend Hello All, I normally would not use linkedin for this…but…I have a dear friend who is battling cancer and has had to travel to Houston for … Read more
This is one I’ve been meaning to post for sometime, but always forget. Let’s say you have a HATS screen transformation that you’ve worked for hours to get pixel perfect. It looks gorgeous. You deploy it and then your users come back to you and say they that when they get into an error condition, … Read more