Yesterday’s run from Canadian War Memorial largely stayed in the Inclosures which resulted in a bit more track running than usual. This in turn meant that we ended up crossing over ourselves a couple of times. I heard my first cuckoo of the year whilst we were out running; the less welcome wildlife were the midges waiting for us back at the car park. Driving home I experienced another truly English experience: Lyndhurst high street appeared to be closed due to Morris Dancing!
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Amateur IT support
Sunday, May 10th, 2009Christine’s laptop has been slowly grinding to a halt over the past few weeks and, as the university support services were proposing to take it away, I thought I’d take a look. I was initially sidetracked by an issue with a SQL Server 2005 Express update which Windows Update was repeatedly trying to install. In the end, it turned out she had the same issue with the IDE Channel transfer mode that I’ve experienced before. The Windows Update was just one of the many disk intensive operations where things got really bad. Just for good measure I uninstalled some apps I’d put on her machine and ran CCleaner and JKDefrag. Hopefully Christine will come home from work in a better mood tomorrow!
Service Integration Bus Destination Handler
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009I’ve previously plugged the Service Integration Bus Explorer and IBM Client Application for JMS as useful tools to have in your WebSphere messaging kitbag. Thanks go once again to Dave Screen, this time for bringing the Service Integration Bus Destination Handler to my attention. This provides a very configurable mechansim for carrying out actions on a set of messages either on a one-off basis (via client or web application) or on a scheduled basis. Particularly useful operations include dumping messages, moving messages from one destination to another, and resurrecting messages from the exception destination. The readme file available in the download provides lots of detailed instructions and examples.
Sharing libraries at runtime
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009Thanks to my colleague Dave Screen for highlighting a useful technote relating to sharing library modules in WebSphere ESB and Process Server. The WebSphere Integration Developer concept of a library is typically only used for development time sharing of artifacts i.e. when you deploy a module that depends on that library, a copy of the JAR file is included in the enterprise application that is deployed. The technote describes how to deploy the library as a WebSphere shared library and have multiple modules depend on the same instance at runtime. This has the potential to reduce memory usage (the library is on a shared classloader) and ease managability. It does, however, mean that you need to be more careful about versioning of the library and breaking other dependent modules. If you’re not on 6.2 then note the list of APARs at the bottom of the document.
Other two underpasses (backwards)
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009With a different pair of shoes on I decided that my blister from the weekend could cope with an outing to the Forest. This month our start (and finish) point moved to the Canadian War Memorial, north of Emery Down. This week’s designated run was the “other two underpasses (backwards)”. Backwards meant anti-clockwise and for some reason no-one could remember ever having run the route that way before. One side effect was that we usually add a bit of a loop on to the end to kill some time – we tried to compensate for this by adding a bit of a loop on the start but failed to take long enough and therefore had to add another loop on at the other end (with some adding a bigger loop than others). Afterwards we repaired to the New Forest Inn to hear Stuart’s tails of daring do at the Marathon des Sables.
Double O Severn
Monday, May 4th, 2009Yet more ponds
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009After an enforced couple of weeks I made it back to Fritham for the last run of the month. Thankfully the afternoon rain cleared and we had a pleasant enough tour around the six ponds (clockwise this time). Canadian War Memorial next month…
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