For those who wonder what this strange sport that I partake in at weekends is (or indeed those that think it’s something Scouts do with twigs), British Squad member Oli Johnson has written a nice introduction on the planetFear site.
Beginners Guide to Orienteering
January 15th, 2007Endpoint lookup mediation primitive
January 15th, 2007I’m finally finding some time to take a look at WebSphere ESB 6.0.2. The endpoint lookup mediation primitive for determining endpoint addresses based on information retrieved from WebSphere Service Registry and Repository was near the top of my list of things to try. Just as I was about to give up hope of getting it to work, a note arrived from Greg Flurry pointing out that you need to have Fix Pack 1 of Service Registry and Repository. Importantly, he also included a link to the install documentation in the InfoCenter. The update failed the first time as my machine was crawling along and the SOAP connection timed out. Having shutdown a few spare processes the fix pack went on fine and the primitive now works like a charm. Note that you can also install directly from the fix pack.
Blue skies at Waggoners Wells
January 14th, 2007We had a full car for the drive over to the Guildford Orienteers regional event at Waggoners Wells today. We arrived in plenty of time and I treated myself to a new pair of O-shoes (VJ Integrator spikes again although bizarrely a size up from my last pair). You could start at anytime within your allocated start block which is fine on M21L but I wouldn’t like to have had to wait in the queues for one of the more popular courses, even on such a bright sunny day.
Tired legs
January 13th, 2007Hitting the streets
January 11th, 2007Yesterday was the first SOC street event of the year. Courtesy of Colin Hicks there was an hour’s score event starting at The Crown in Highfield, Southampton. There was a fairly obvious loop collecting in the high scoring controls in Swaythling which meant most people set off in the same direction. Having crossed back over the river it was then time to see how many of the remaining controls could be picked up on the way back to the pub. I was fairly confident by then that I should be able to get them all and made it back in just over 57 minutes. You can see my route on Google Maps.
These events are now every three weeks going on in to the Summer with the next one starting at 7:30pm from the Oak Road Car Park, Dibden Purlieu on 31 January.
Lack of DIY skills
January 8th, 2007Last week the washing machine decided that the spin cycle should look an awfully lot like the pump cycle. It wasn’t the motor as it would still spin during the wash. My suspicion was that it thought there was still water in the machine but, having successfully work out how to dismantle the case, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what was the relevant sensor. Needless to say, having forked out the callout fee, the repair guy cleaned the pressure sensor and it’s all working again. He then proceeded to spend more time trying to charge my credit card than he had actually fixing the problem! I guess I should be pleased that I didn’t have to pay for any parts but I’m still kicking myself for not being able to repair it. Call myself an engineer? Should have paid more attention in fluid dynamics!
developerWorks WebSphere newsletter
January 8th, 2007The weekly developerWorks WebSphere newsletter, the prompt for many of my postings on this site and previously only available to IBMers, is now open to all. Sign up here.
MDB reconnection
January 7th, 2007The asynchronous nature of message-driven beans means that the JMS provider must be permanently connected to the messaging system in order to know when a message is available for delivery. I received a question last week as to what WebSphere Application Server’s behaviour is when that connection is broken.
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