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Sunday, June 14th, 2009
765We were looking for something to do today when I remembered seeing an advert for the National Gardens Scheme open day at Cranbury Park. Cranbury is a private estate on the northern edge of Chandler’s Ford and despite living here over 10 years now I’ve never ventured in to the grounds. We cycled over and, despite arriving only 10 minutes after the opening time, the grounds were already busy. Seemingly you have to arrive early if you want to get a good bargain from the plant stall!
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Having given myself last Tuesday off running (donated blood in the morning and then child minding would have meant missing the pub) it was good to be out at Beaulieu Road tonight. We had a nice sensibly paced run (which had nothing to do with Neil not arriving in time I’m sure) along a pleasant route out to the trig point near Bolton’s Bench. Jon Forster even made it out for possibly the first time this year!
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Not a great deal to say about last night’s RR10. My legs were still tired from the half marathon at the weekend and I still felt a bit drained from giving blood the previous day. On top of which the course was pretty dull, winding around the gravel tracks in the Inclosure for most of the race. I wasn’t therefore particularly surprised to be handed a ticket with the number 28 on at the finish.
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
There has been a WebSphere ESB newsgroup for a long while but it doesn’t see a lot of traffic compared to its sibling Integration Developer and Process Server groups. At least part of that has been due to the fact that they have been mirrored on the developerWorks forums which tend to be the preferred interface for many developers this days (although not myself!) whilst the WebSphere ESB one has not. My colleague Dave Screen has now got this rectified so post your WebSphere ESB questions here!
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
A top tip just in from the WebSphere Integration Developer team… If you only use WebSphere Integration Developer to develop for WebSphere ESB (and not Process Server) then go to Window > Preferences and select General > Capabilities. Then click the Advanced button and expand Integration Developer. If you uncheck Process Development then the Process Server specific options (e.g. SCA module creation) will be filterered out of the menu structures. It’s not perfect (the new business integration module wizard for example doesn’t take account of the enabled capabilities) but it goes a fair way to removing some of the clutter that is not relevant to you as a WebSphere ESB developer. Thankfully there are plans to make the option easier to find in future releases!
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
759We headed over to the Isle of Wight today for the Needles Cross-Country Marathon (although I was only running the half). Our gamble of getting the 8:45 ferry seemed to pay off and we arrived in reasonable time for the 10:00 start from the West Wight Sports Centre. There was a good turnout (around 300 for both events) with a fair sprinkling of Tuesday night runners present (myself, Neil, Darren, Roderick, Sue and Jane).
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
756It seems hard to believe but Emma is two today. She usually goes in to nursery on a Tuesday and as they do a good birthday celebration we thought it would be a shame if she didn’t go in. (She also came home with a good haul of presents from the nursery!) Christine had made two cakes – one for home and another for nursery which is probably just as well as it meant I could practice my decorating skills on ours before doing the one for nursery. Present opening had to wait until I got home from work (as we feared we’d never get Emma off to nursery if we started on them in the morning). Emma has certainly got the hang of tearing off the paper but there were really too many new things for her to concentrate on one for very long. More photos on Flickr.
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
753Today’s trip out was to the New Forest. After fighting our way through the hoards heading towards the beach we parked at the Reptile Centre and then walked to the New Forest Inn at Emery Down where we had lunch. Here we came across a group of Morris Dancers who thankfully seemed more interested in eating and drinking than dancing. We didn’t miss out entirely though as the merriment began just before we made our move to leave. We therefore headed off in the direction of the Portugese Fireplace to the strains of the recorder. From there we crossed to Knightwood Oak and then back to the Reptile Centre. Perhaps as a result of the additional sunshine I was able to improve on my Tuesday night count by spotting two adders, some natterjack toads and a green frog. Perhaps more interesting though was the webcam of the goshawk nest.
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