Spent the past week in Las Vegas for the IBM WebSphere Services Technical Conference. Had a direct flight from Gatwick with Virgin Atlantic which was infinitely preferable to having to spend an extra couple of hours in some random US airport. We were based in the Rio for the week both for accommodation and the conference itself. Much more pleasant being off the Strip (in fact, I only made it to the Strip once and that was for an early morning run) although it did mean it was possible to spend the entire day inside a dry air-conditioned box. Sadly, by the time the presentations were over for each day the sun had dropped behind the buildings meaning that the hotel’s pool and beach weren’t as enticing as they might have been.
Vegas birthday conference
May 6th, 2006Peugeot embarrasment
April 27th, 2006Welsh charm
April 23rd, 2006Service Integration Bus Explorer
April 20th, 2006The browser based WebSphere Application Server (WAS) administration console is not an ideal interface for displaying runtime status. In addition, when working with the Service Integration Bus in WAS V6, the resources associated with a bus are spread over numerous panels. For a while now, those of use in IBM have had the pleasure of using an SWT application written by a colleague in development (Gareth Matthews) that provides a single viewpoint of the bus resources defined across multiple cells and their current runtime state. The legal niceties having being resolved, this fantastic tool is now available for all on alphaWorks.
J2SE JMS client
April 20th, 2006I’m often asked by customers, both during engagements and more informally, about the support for connecting to the default messaging provider in WebSphere Application Server V6 from a client environment. Until now, the official line has been that either the client container or thin client from the WebSphere Application Client installation should be used. However, installing a 100Mb from a CD isn’t usually what most folks have in mind when talking about a thin client (at which point they start copying files from a server installation). Fortunately, a much more palatable option is now available from alphaWorks in the shape of the “Client for JMS on J2SE with IBM WebSphere Application Server”.
RR10 season starts
April 19th, 2006The RR10 season kicked off again tonight with the first race being held at Royal Victoria Country Park as has become traditional. This is usually a good race to get a high position: one of the larger clubs is organising, the London Marathon has just happened or, as this year, is about to happen, people are still on Easter hols and other just haven’t realised that it’s that time of year again already. I was still, however, slightly unnerved not to recognise anyone at the front of the line-up.
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