IBM is offering a special this month on Rational Team Concert, whereby you can get 7 additional free developer client access licenses for free. They have also dropped the server prices by about half for Express, Standard, and Enterprise. This means, that with the Express edition server, you an enable your entire team for under … Read more
Rational Software Architect has a much underutilized feature called Software Analyzer built into the product. It is separately available as its own product. It allows the developer/architect to scan and identify build patterns and anti-patterns in a workspace, working set, or specific project in the developer workspace.These are very helpful to identify potential performance issues. … Read more
For those who missed our webinar last week on the updated tools from Rational, I’m posting the presentation here (thanks to Slideshare). If you want the audio… well.. .you’ll just have to give one of us a call here at the office and we’ll reenact it. O.K.? What’s New in Rational Software for POWER Systems … Read more
We all do it. We get into a funk when designing applications, or we just take what we are given by our wizardy-like design interfaces. As such we get stuck in the same rut of using the same old design elements and styles and forget that there are a plethora of HTML/XHTML tags that we … Read more
I picked up on this from a twitter post. LotusLive, which is IBM’s cloud email and collaboration offering, just got some new integrations with Salesforce.com, Skype, and Silanis e-Sign. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
As a reminder, Lotus Notes and Domino support for version 6.5 will end on April 30th, which is two weeks from today. If you have a product issue and need support, you should enter your PMR now before time runs out. After that you will have to upgrade your environment to a supported version in … Read more
Today, IBM has released several products geared towards development on IBM POWER systems (notably, the POWER7). IBM is targetting customers running on Sun hardware and especially Oracle applications. Now customer will be able to migrate from Solaris/SPARC to POWER/AIX with new compilers and development tools for C/C++ and COBOL. New compilers (priced separatly or packacked … Read more
I’ve been using GoToMeeting for a few months, and started using GoToWebinar for, you guessed it, some webinars for Strongback Consulting. Well, in the process of setting up my latest webinar, I’ve come across some institutional bigotry with the company. No, I’m not talking about black or white, catholic or protestant, muslim or jew or … Read more
We’ll be answering this question and more on April 16th at 11AM. This is webinar that is geared towards those participating the POWER7 launch events. We’ll cover: Leverage graphical tools to increase quality and time to market within smaller teams Team collaboration features to improve your development process workflow Expose host business processes as Web … Read more
There are several Jazz based products that run on Linux, namely Rational Team Concert, Quality Manager, and Requirements Composer. When you install these products, either through extracting a zip file, or using the Installation Manager approach, you do not get the option to start on boot. You will have to manually configure this. IBM released … Read more