SOA & WebSphere Process Integration Education – Day 1
This first day draws to an end and I’ve spent most of my time downloading the required material (presentations, audio files, VMware images), going through the various Powerpoint presentations and viewing Camtasia movies depicting the products in mock-up situations. The products look slick and make you want to have a copy to really play with,…
Lire la suiteDetermining what’s the right tool for a deliverable is not obvious
Every once in a while, I get into spring cleaning mode and take a look at my online presence. To me, it’s about making sure I know what presence points I have, how I keep them updated, and can some rationalization be done to minimize the amount of effort while maximizing their value. The old…
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For the next four days, I will be attending the SOA and WebSphere Process Integration V6 eSTEW. This is so I can help my fellow IBMers and you (Partners and Clients) as you call for information on our new product line. I like attending classes, even virtual ones. But I do have a short attention…
Lire la suiteLearning to be a Notes developer the hard way
By now, you may know I’ve had my first Notes application actually deployed on our internal network, for my colleagues in Techline to help them manage the steady flow of incoming RFP requests from Sales Reps, Partners and Clients. What you may not know is that yours truly has had a crash course in what…
Lire la suiteRemoving old fields from Notes applications
How many times have I tried to follow the documentation’s instructions, only to fail miserably and make do with’em. I’m talking about all those old unused field names, of course, which seem to want to stay around forever when you reuse an existing application as the basis for a new one. Well, not anymore… From…
Lire la suiteLooking at my domain stats
I’ve jus downloaded a web analyzer tool to take a closer look at my web stats. Not much surprise, except for the following discoveries: United States visitorship explains most of the growth and traffic (85%), while Canada is stable (10%)… (I’m Canadian, snif…) Bloglines accounts for most of the visitors (1,027), with Microsoft in 2nd…
Lire la suiteIt’s Project Crunch Time
There are so many things besides answering pre-sales questions we do that sometimes it gets mind-numbing trying to track every take-away you owe to everyone on everything. [takes a deep breath] Over the course of this week, I’ll be trying to finalize the RFP tracking application I’ve built for the coordinators across the Software Techline…
Lire la suiteTime to look at the stats once again
Well, after running my domain name from a hosted server, as opposed to my onw linux box, things are looking good, statistics-wise. The last time I shared them, I was still running this WordPress blog off a Thinkpad on my broadband modem. At that time, there was a steady progression in terms of the total…
Lire la suiteArchiving your Instant Messaging Chats with Lotus Notes
Here’s something frightening: I’ve got 7,344 instant messaging chats currently archived in a Lotus Notes database. I’ll let that sink in a little… I’ve got chat sessions dating back to 2001. And the effort to keep those neat and tidy in a full-text searcheable database was… ZERO. The reason is I’ve been using a Notes…
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