Archive pour janvier 2006

Yeah. I’m like that. I thought I could go for a good 6 months without updating the look/feel of the blog and the rest of my personal domain applications, but hey, there’s so much going on. Frankly, I’m hooked – why deny it. The things I’ve done to this blog are minor this time around,…

I’ve been looking for an alternative to Joomla lately, because, well, I think it’s sorta big, slow and bloated. There, I said it. I know, I’m a spoiled brat. I don’t code and I get this stuff for free through the joy of opensource development. I’d heard of e107 before, but discarded when I was…

What I’ve come to realize as I looked at various ways to manage my bookmarks across multiple systems is twofold: There is no application right now that would match my ideal deployment/runtime scenario I don’t need to overcomplicate things, given my usage patterns Let’s backtrack for a minute, so you can appreciate the evolution (or…

I’ve just hit this news release on the WebSphere Application support website (which by the way provides an RSS feed) : It is now possible to simply install and configure WebSphere® Application Server for multiple systems. Simplify installing GA code, refresh packs, fix packs and interim fixes, as well as creating/configuring artifacts and deploying applications.…

I’ve been trying to love Evernote. Really. I had it auto-start every time I booted. It sat there in my tray ready to be used, I installed the Firefox extension to send content to it automatically (that worked very well, btw) and I even used it as a DDE target for our telephony software, so…

Since last week, I’ve decided to sample a few more apps to inhabit the arseneault.ca domain. The everlasting quest for the perfect wiki may be coming to an end as I’ve taken a look at both phpwiki and pmwiki. phpWiki just took forever to unzip, with close to 10Mb of content, which seemed on the…

First, let me explain what’s a pillar. For anyone that’s delt with IBM, like any large organizations, we have different teams that handle different product sets. This allows us to become specialists over a smaller number of products, which in turn helps you get answers quicker when you call us for support. I’m part of…

Sometimes, you speak to people who want to change, but attack it from such a narrow angle that you wonder how it’s ever going to make a difference for them. I personally think that small changes have only a small impact. I don’t mind big changes, such as changing jobs, moving to a new city…

My colleague Luis Suarez blogged about one of those try it once kinda web apps, called EgoSurf. Essentially, once you plug your name and domain name (what, you don’t have one?!?), it will go out and search all the familiar sites we know (Google, Technorati, Del.icio.us, etc) and assign a point value to each appearance…