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Summer fun
It’s summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime….. Right! Time for fun in the sun! Given the time lapse since my last post, you’d think that I had gone on vacation. Not so! I have been busy, mostly with some challenging projects … Continue reading
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IBM Rational is Irrational – Call a SWMA…
Before I begin this rant, let me say that IBM, the IBM I grew up with, has been an amazing company to have a developer relationship with. I have said it before and I’ll say it again, nobody does support … Continue reading
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One more time with Asterisk
A long while ago, maybe 4 years ago, I installed Asterisk, an open source voice mail and call management system. It is a little bit of overkill for a small office like mine and although I also host my home … Continue reading
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The Day(s) the Earth Stood Still
No. It isn’t a reference to the 1951 science fiction movie, it is a reference to last Friday when my Internet connection slowed to a crawl and despite the best efforts of Comcast, I continued to experience outages and slowness. … Continue reading
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Tracking the time
I have kind of lost track of time. Christmas-New Years tends to be a time when I ‘play’ a bit with new technologies and have a chance to try things on for size. Alas, work has prevented me from playing! … Continue reading
Revisiting Nagios to monitor IBM i
It’s been a while since I played with Nagios but my son had recently shown me the Cacti plugin that works with Nagios and it was cool enough that I decided to get Nagios up and running again. I have … Continue reading
The Crappy Software Company = WIDCOMM
Since I am a developer, I don’t usually go out of my way to make disparaging remarks about other software companies. Oh, we programmers ARE an opinionated bunch, but we ALL have been humbled by the complexity of the environment … Continue reading
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Zend Server on i
You probably won’t notice but I have changed the server running this blog. We now have Zend Server running our PHP applications rather than Zend Core. Lost on you but not on me is that the configuration is now MUCH … Continue reading
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Up the WAS-ZOO
The final piece of the IBM “it’s broke please fix it” list was getting Websphere Application Server Express Edition V7 installed and running. What triggered this “simple” activity was that there was some discussion of source management and version control … Continue reading
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A little Linux success
After ranting about how difficult it was to install Linux on the blade (vs IBM i), I was hoping I’d get some quick resolution. However, the scenario ended up like this: The VIOS folks tossed it over the wall to … Continue reading