We spurned the OMM this year where, if the event reporting is to be believed, they had a very stormy and wet night but clear skies for much of the competition. Instead, we stayed at home and, on Sunday, went to BADO’s event at Blackwood where it rained continously the whole time we were there! This was only the second time we’ve used split starts, the first being the last day of the Scottish Six Days, and it’s been wet both times. Still, I just about managed to amuse Emma in the back of the car whilst Christine was out on the blue course.
Damp woods
October 29th, 2007Street-O starts
October 27th, 2007Another sure sign that winter’s on its way – the start of the SOC street events. First up on Thursday night was Dibden courtesy of Jon Forster. Jon had reduced the area covered from last year and lay down the gauntlet by stating that he thought it may be possible to get all of the controls (lamposts). I made a better start than last time: remembering a head torch and not getting too disorientated in the small pockets of woodland. My plan for the controls ahead kept changing and things started to go a bit pear shaped when I missed out 19. When I eventually came back to collect it I was starting to run short on time. It didn’t take long to decide to drop 6 and 2. The clock shows me 13 seconds late back but I put that down to following an unmapped path round the back of the shops rather than the one to the car park. You can see my route on Google maps.
New JMS benchmark
October 25th, 2007The SPECjms2007 benchmark was announced today. The benchmark has two performance metrics covering horizontal and vertical scalability with the tests consisting of a mix of publish/subscribe and point-to-point, durable and non-durable, persistent and non-persistent, and transactional and non-transactional messages. Given the contributing organisations (Technische Universität Darmstadt, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Sybase and Apache) it will be interesting to watch as results are published.
Moonlit run
October 24th, 2007The clocks change this coming weekend which signals the end of the Tuesday night runs in the New Forest. As has become traditional in recent years, the last run from Fritham was due to be run by the light of head torches. Unfortunately, unlike the previous week, the skies were clear and the moon bright. When we were out on the plain there was little need for torches at all. Still, the excellent pork pies supplied by the Royal Oak afterwards more than made up for it. Back to pounding the streets of Southampton next week.
Flat file custom data bindings
October 22nd, 2007Having written a very similar exercise for the Connecting Enterprise Application to WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus ITSO Workshop, it was interesting to read Rich Johnson’s article on creating custom data bindings for the WebSphere Flat File adapter. In particular, the step required to actually add the custom data binding so that it shows up in the Enterprise Service Discovery wizard is not exactly obvious.
Best Practices for Large WebSphere Topologies
October 22nd, 2007If you’re looking to scale out your WebSphere solution then this paper on developerWorks is one you must read. It provides guidelines on cell sizes and discusses when you should consider multiple core groups and how to bridge them, as well as other important considerations. Go read it!
Job ad
October 16th, 2007Couldn’t help laughing at this job ad for a “WebSphere ESB Developer”. On closer inspection said developer needs “proven experience of WebSphere Message Broker V6” i.e. the “Advanced Enterprise Service Bus”!
Wanted: one appendix
October 12th, 2007Thanks to Neil for sending me a link to this Guardian article. It seems that I may wish I still had my appendix if I ever decide to become a hermit!
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