For a long time, I’ve found it intensely irritating that the console view in Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Integration Developer jumps to the front every time there are new entries in the server logs, even if it has been closed. This is particularly annoying in customer demos where it usually appears at the most inopportune moment to show a raft of red stacktrace scrolling past! Needless to say there is a simple fix. Under Run/Debug > Console in the preferences, just uncheck the boxes entitled “Show when program writes to standard error” and/or “Show when program writes to standard out”. You can also change the text colour for standard error if you find all that red a bit disconcerting!
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Console under control
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Ripping time
Sunday, February 17th, 2008As part of our preparations for travelling overseas I thought it was time we joined the 21st century and ripped our (small) CD collection. Minimal research led me to use Exact Audio Copy with REACT to generate FLAC images for archival purposes (I’m no great audiophile) and MP3s for general listening. The final stats were: 97 CDs with 1405 tracks taking up 31GB for the images and 5GB for the MP3s. Only on one occasion did I have to drop down to burst mode to rip a particularly worn CD. (I won’t say which to avoid any embarrassment!) freedb came up trumps with a track listing for every CD including Emma’s and even those for learning Norwegian!!
Forerunner 3
Friday, February 15th, 2008I eventually did decide to return my Garmin (again) due to the lack of sound. Three days after I dropped it off at their office in Totton (I’m not sure what the security guard thought of me as I was wearing running kit at the time!) a package arrived back. Sadly this time it just contained a watch, not a whole replacement box. The wrapper stated “Newly Overhauled” but the watch has a new serial number so I’m not sure what to make out of that. I can, however, do intervals once again without having to look at my watch the whole time!
OpenID support
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008The observant visitor to this site may already have noticed the addition of OpenID support for logon and commenting on this site. This is easy to achieve with the WP-OpenID plugin. For now I have enabled the option to auto-approve comments submitted with an OpenID. I know having an OpenID doesn’t necessarily make you a good person but, at least for now, its more effort than your average spammer is prepared to go to.
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Immersive slideshows
Thursday, February 7th, 2008If you spend a lot of time looking at large numbers of photos on the web then take a look at the PicLens browser plugins. It builds a 3D wall of photos from a page and allows you to zoom around them and view each one full screen. In my case, particularly useful for browsing photos on Flickr.
SportTracks and Garmin
Monday, February 4th, 2008Version 2.0 of the SportTracks GPS exercise logbook now looks ready for prime time. Having used it for a few days now I have yet to discover any killer new features but neither have I spotted anything that is missing which, at one point, seemed to be likely to be the case. I’m also contemplating returning my Forerunner 305 to Garmin again as the sound has gone which was the first thing to stop working last time. Whilst looking around the Garmin site I spotted the Forerunner 405 which was announced at CES and is due to ship in March. Shockingly it a) looks like a watch and b) can be used to tell the time when not in GPS mode! With such a small screen it is perhaps not surprising that you lose the ability to view routes and the current track but still very tempting all the same.
Performance tuning WebSphere ESB 6.1
Monday, January 28th, 2008There is a Redpaper which provides some excellent advice when it comes to tuning WebSphere ESB 6.0.2 for performance. However, you’ll have to wait a little bit for the Version 6.1 update. In the meantime, whilst all of the current best practice still stands, I thought I would post a couple of additional tips that are specific to the latest release.
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Jython scripting
Monday, January 28th, 2008I’ve had the pleasure of working with my UKISA colleague Andrew Simms on a number of occasions. Some may have been luck enough to see his “Monty Jython’s Scripting Circus” presentation on the conference circuit recently. If not, fear not, as he now has a developerWorks article to set you on the path to being a Jython pro!
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