Archive pour novembre 2005
Contributing to Wikipedia
Well, it had to happen one day… I finally signed up for a Wikipedia account last week. The reason? I didn’t feel like the entry on WebSphere did it justice. Now, before you treat me of WebSphere FanBoy, I didn’t rewrite the whole entry, I didn’t completely refactor it and I certainly didn’t make it…
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I love the book analogy… this was too good not to share. And in pure Slashdot style, no, I haven’t RTFA (that’s Read The F%^$# Article. Kylar writes «When you have spare time and decide to do something with a book (That’s like an analog webpage, for the neuronauts among us), how often do you…
Lire la suiteManaging day-to-day information
Since I like to improve how I work, and make it faster and more convenient if possible, my latest quest has been to find software that would let me take notes on the fly, quickly find them back and provide cross-referencing capabilities, a la wiki. Of course, I’m a fan of Lotus Notes and all,…
Lire la suiteHappy user of Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
I’m always looking for software that can take care of boring tasks for me without intervention. For linux, one can easily hack a cron job with rsync and they’ve got a poor’s man backup in little time. For Windows, things get a little messier. While it’s possible to play with the Task Scheduler, there are…
Lire la suiteInstalling WebSphere Integration Developer V6
Well, it’s been rather busy lately with most of my colleagues attending the WebSphere Technical Exchange in Miami. When 60% (3 out of 5) of your team leaves, it makes a BIG difference. While I’ve still got my hands full with the day-to-day stuff (sales requests, RFPs, sizings, dept projects, etc), I still need that…
Lire la suiteGDS 2 now supports multiple Notes databases
Well, thanks to Google, I now have the-mother-of-all-search-engines in Google Desktop Search for Enterprise V2. It now sports the same sidebar (if you’re into that) as the regular Desktop Search Version 2, but includes the security. One of my gripes with the previous Enteprise edition, as I had previously discussed on this blog, was that…
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From ZDNet News: IBM is jumping into the podcast stream by creating Internet radio shows on technology trends and encouraging its employees to create their own podcasts. The move comes less than six months after the company launched an initiative to encourage its more than 300,000 employees to write blogs… The most recent podcast, «IBM…
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