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
Figures… I buy my Curve (and had to pay full price since I;m a year away from my renewal), and RIM announced the new Blackberry Bold. On top of it all, their building a tool to pull in music from iTunes onto the Blackberry. Just damn. The new tool would be very handy for those … Read more
I got my Blackberry Curve yesterday, and spent much time last night playing around with it. I finally feel like I’ve got a PDA that I can depend on rather than archaic brick that only syncs when I manually copy data over. Verizon finally got their version this month, I ordered mine the first day … Read more
Ever since going out on my own and starting my own business, I’ve been on the Palm Treo, with the Palm OS. Once upon a time, a Palm was a dandy gadget. It was top of the pack in productivity and features. Have had a handful over the years (pun intended). However, this is 2008, … Read more
Very cool article on developerworks. Its HATS related, of course. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-atommainframe/?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=HP ©2016 Strongback Consulting