Archive pour février 2006

I know I’ve talked about this before, but Scuttle is very quickly becoming an essential part of my computing environment. Just recently, as I switched hosting server, I was having a problem with the Scuttlelicious extension, and couldn’t bookmark stuff. Not fun. The latest version (0.6) now offers: more translations tag clouds caching observable speed…

Yeah, I know, not exactly difficult, but here’s what my laptop is doing right now: Shrinking a VMware image of Linux and WebSphere, while using 1Gb RAM Compressing a 1.8Gb VMware folder using 7yz and the Ultra mode Sending a 2Gb file using WinSCP to my linux box at the office Running the usual suspects:…

What’s really cool with the IBM Software stack is that as more and more of our products use industry standards, they can be used in new ways (i.e. not only using pure J2EE programming which can be frightening to the uninitiated). Example is this new IBM developerWorks article entitled Access WebSphere Process Server V6.0 business…

I’ve finally (I think) switched over completely from web hosting provider. Wow. Didn’t think there’d be so much to learn in such a short time. In all, I think the site was offline for 2 days or so. During that time (evening and nights, really), I had to master cPanel, Web Host Manager and a…

Whenever we come out with a new product, I don’t know who decides on naming conventions, but things can get ugly. Well, not as much as what IT Jungle recently wrote on our product (they love the product, they just don’t dig the name) in their IBM Weaves Together HATS and WebFacing Tools article: As…

Yes, I’ve been asked to tag-along on a sales call in the past at IBM. Substitute Dilbert for Jean-Francois, there, you can say you were there (hey, I never lied about the fact I was geek’ier than your average rep – hence the technical sales thing)… To be honest, sellers at IBM, like a lot…

Wow. how did I let this one slide? I just noticed on the Logemann Blog, that not only did we make DB2 Express free, but we’re also providing a pre-build VMware image. Now that there’s a free VMware Player and Server available for download, this is a completely free way to run a virtualized environment…

Wow. The VMware team is really firing from all cylinders lately. First a major upgrade to VMware Workstation to allow 64-bit OSes. Then the free VMware Player. Now this: a free VMware Server product, which acts as en entry point to their ESG/GSX product lines. This is just too cool. A comparison of what it…

Kathy Sierra says, on her blog today: Maybe instead of working on our weaknesses, we should be enhancing and exploiting our strengths? What if the price for working on weakness (and who even decides what is and isn’t a « weakness »?) is less chance to be f’n amazing? Go read it, and then think…