Archive pour décembre 2005

After Many years of learning, selling and support the product Countless nights studying redbooks and the InfoCenter Many go at the exam I finally passed! I am now officially an IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server V5! And it was tough. Don’t let anyone tell you multiple choice questions are easy – they…

I’m accessing a WAS 5.1 server running within a VMware from my Mac (since it’s got the bigger 17″ screen) and playing around the Admin Console is easier on the big screen. But I never realized before that Safari didn’t work with WAS 5.1’s console… must be something with the javascript used for the drop-down…

For a while now, I’ve been trying to transition to using OpenSource on my work Thinkpad as much as possible. Sometimes, I’m replacing freeware, other times commercial stuff. The latest victims to be replaced have been: Adobe Acrobat & PrimoPDF, replaced by PDFCreator WinZip & IZark, replaced by 7-Zip Rational Application Developer, replaced by Notepad++…

Ok. I really REALLY need to be studying for my WebSphere exam. But with a laptop in hand and new stuff to try, who has time to study… I’ve now installed a new way to connect my laptop to the IBM network and it seems to be pretty stable and as fast or faster than…

There is so much happening on the VMware front recently it’s difficult to keep up. My trick? I subscribe to a del.icio.us RSS feed for the word ‘VMware’ … simple and efficient. That being said, here are some news worthy of attention: Here’s a PHP application to deploy on your website to let (potential) customers…

IBM has a very powerful tool for self-help that would really benefit from more exposure. It’s called the IBM Support Assistant. This is a desktop application that connects to the web to provide federated search and aggregation for many different IBM middleware. It’s powered by the Eclipse IDE and lets you download plugins for the…

I will admit I did not know what paging meant in the Linux world until tonight. It’s one of those things I’d keep hearing about when reading on Linux, but never cared to search on. Well, I did tonight, just to realize I’d been using paging (virtual desktops) for a while now, and it was…

While thinking yesterday on how I was starting to run out of time for my Xmas shopping, I figured having a wishlist application on my website would be a nice way to manage the gift-giving act. Actually, not so much manage my buying lists (I’d use my Sony Clie for that) than to announce what…

A few months ago, IBMers were trying to outdo each other (on the internal blogs) in the number of java.exe instances they could find sitting on their hard drive. Given that Java is our runtime of choice, and that pretty much all our middleware uses it, the numbers were quite high. For myself, I am…