Pubs conquered again
December 18th, 2006New Popular Edition Maps
December 13th, 2006Search to see what your area looked like in the 1940s on the New Popular Edition Maps. If you can locate somewhere you know, enter the postcode and update their free database. (Free The Postcode has a similar mission.) There’s not much hope of finding our house as, back then, Chandler’s Ford was pretty much restricted to the triangle between Hursley Road, Hiltingbury Road and Winchester Road.
WebSphere Application Server V6.1 security
December 11th, 2006Two words you don’t often see in the same sentence: simplicity and security. Peter Birk and Keys Botzum have written an in-depth article covering the enhancements to the SSL, certificate, and key management, capabilities for WebSphere Application Server in Version 6.1.
WebSphere ESB JMS bindings
December 11th, 2006The second part of Rachel and Andre’s series on Building an Enterprise Service Bus using WebSphere ESB looks at placing a WebSphere ESB mediation between an MDB and JMS client. In this case the requester and provider both deal in the serialized business object XML but don’t forget that you can use the JMS data bindings to provide custom mappings from other external message formats to that expected by the SCA runtime.
Cold Ash trains
December 10th, 2006A frosty morning saw Petr, Andy, Matthew and myself heading up to Cold Ash near Newbury for the BKO district event. None of us had checked the details so it was lucky Andy got the 9:05 train not the 10:05 as last start was eleven o’clock due to the Yvette Baker Trophy final that followed. We obviously weren’t the only ones though as just after I started, they began to push competitors through at half minute intervals to get everyone out in time.
File conversion
December 10th, 2006A plug for a site put together by a Hursley colleague and his brother. Zamzar provides free online file conversion. Upload a document, image, video or music, select the type of conversion, enter your e-mail address and click convert. After a short delay you get an e-mail back with a link to your converted document.
New mountain marathon
December 10th, 2006Nopesport is advertising a new UK mountain marathon. The Highlander will be at the end of March next year up near Inverness. Should prove to be a stunning setting as there must be a strong likelihood of snow on the tops (which the courses won’t visit).
Oak orienteering
December 9th, 2006After a frustrating week at work it was great to get out in to the Forest for a run today, particularly with the sun putting in an appearance. Mike Yeo had laid on a local event at Knightwood Oak (doing himself an injury in the process). The longest course was a green so no excuse for not running hard.
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