As I’ve mentioned previously, shortly after I first joined IBM I was a member of the development team for the transactions component, initially of Component Broker and then WebSphere Application Server. My team leader back then was one Ian Robinson. Ian has since risen to the heady heights of Senior Technical Staff Member and I’m glad to say that he now acts as my mentor. Ian is co-chair of the OASIS WS-Tx committee and, as announced on his blog (of which I had no idea of the existence), Version 1.1 of the standard has just been announced. Ian has also added his name to the list of contributors on the WebSphere Community Blog (note the new location) having authored a lengthy article on the support for Web Service Transactions in WebSphere Application Server.
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Web Service Transactions
Monday, June 4th, 2007Rails Overview: Intro and Getting Started
Thursday, May 24th, 2007So, here goes… there’s plenty to say so my overview of Ruby on Rails is going to be a multi-parter. Note, this isn’t going to be a tutorial – there are plenty of those about. This is my view on what makes Rails hot and where it’s not based on my experiences as a Rails newbie. My background, for reference, is with J2EE professionally, and PHP on the side.
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Hosting by the slice
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007A couple of months back I was looking for somewhere to host a Ruby on Rails app (of which more in another post shortly). In the end I settled for a Virtual Private Server from US firm Slicehost (who are themselves Rails developers). For just over £10 a month I get 10GB of storage, 100GB of bandwidth and 256MB. Bargain! I’d love to use a host in the UK but I’d easily be paying twice that and getting half the spec (unless someone out there can point me at a good deal I’ve missed).
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Process Server and ESB exception handling
Monday, May 21st, 2007Another useful fact I picked up at WSTC was around retry behaviour for JMS exports. Pamela Fong and Jeff Brent have put together a very detailed developerWorks article covering all aspects of exception handling in WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere ESB. Definitely worth trying to get your head round this stuff.
Virtualized WebSphere Application Server
Monday, May 21st, 2007I mentioned that Ruth Willenborg gave a presentation at WSTC on virtualization and WebSphere Application Server. She now has an article on developerWorks that covers one technique she was talking about: creating and then deploying customized WebSphere Application Server images. Now where this gets really interesting is when you apply it to something like WebSphere Process Server…
WordPress 2.2
Sunday, May 20th, 2007Having missed the previous security update I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.2. I’m glad to say everything seems to have gone smoothly (although PlusNet managed to take the site down again at one point which had me a little worried). Nothing really different for you, the reader, to see. Widget support is now there out of the box but then I had the plugin installed previously anyway.
.Net access to WebSphere Service Regstiry and Repository
Sunday, May 13th, 2007The subject of accsesing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository from a .Net environment is one that crops up frequently on the newsgroups. It’s therefore great to see that John Colgrave and other members of the development team have released a developerWorks article on this topic.
Dead on arrival
Thursday, May 10th, 2007The battery in the chest strap for my Forerunner died recently but fortunately, unlike my old Polar, you can change it yourself rather than having to send it back to the manufacturer. I can’t help wondering whether it’s death may have coincided with the track I downloaded showing a route from the terminal building at McCarran International Airport to the end of the runway! I don’t usually pack the watch itself in my hold luggage and I don’t think I will be again.
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