Radu's corner

my weekend techie adventure

2012-01-24T06:25:00.000+02:00

I've had one of those situation that its hard to escape. Do you have friends technology agnostic ? So do I ... not only that, but they don't even care about technology, operating systems, files and folders, new stuff, whatever. When such a friend is your brother-in-law, you have no chance but to engage :) Phase 1, two weeks ago - new laptop (some Fujitsu Lifebook). - no OS, it was cheaper - he

OSGI / Eclipe / WAS 8

2011-11-10T22:35:00.000+02:00

Someone challenged me today into asking: what is OSGI ? That reminded me that I didn't read enough to better answer this question. For that reason, here's a list of links I make as well to myself and to others curious enough to learn further: http://www.osgi.org/ http://eclipse.org/osgi/ http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/features/ and the search for osgi keyword through

Notes 8.5.3 tweaks - linux style

2011-10-31T06:14:00.001+02:00

1. The now classic tweak for increasing the Notes underlying IBM JVM heap. sudo vi /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/rcp/deploy/jvm.properties This is the location now. update: This first point needs an update. Seems that Lotus Client 8.5.3 is also incorporating eclipse helios, thus OSGI, thus new tweaking for performance (search saint google for eclipse helios performance tweaks) Experimental,

Notes 8.5.3 out for a week now, looking good

2011-10-09T21:07:00.000+03:00

howdy, I'm happy to report upgrading to 8.5.3 on ubuntu 10.04 LTS went well. 8.5.3 CD5 packages needed to get uninstalled before the new one could have been applied using synaptic. Even the Notes client crashes I had when laptop switched connections in Network Manager seems to be gone now (hey, I'm on linux, using Notes, not Outlook on Windoze ! ). I actually got used to that BUG, but now it's

BrowserID: breakthrough for identity SSO on web ? this just might be ...

2011-07-27T00:34:00.000+03:00

Via my RSS feeds, I stumbled on this. Whose description mentioned PKI ?! As in public/private key ?! WOW ! This might be the breakthrough I've been personally waiting for, when speaking of annoyance multiple accounts on web. I've been looking at openids past year or so, however PKI "embedded" in the current browser seems more like it. Let's keep an eye on it. As always, adoption guides

rambling social software

2011-07-01T23:32:00.002+03:00

It's rather late here in .ro, but since twitter does not allow me to post more than ... uhmm 30 chars ?! ... uh perhaps more ... insufficient, I've got this ideas to share with you. [btw, got this twitter account, not very happy, except I can follow interesting people posting interesting articles, and me sometimes posting ... what did I post ? almost nothing. Good, parenthesis closed] Question:

resistance is futile

2011-06-24T21:57:00.001+03:00

I think this was a line from some movie, but in my case I resisted since 2009 to not tweet I finally gave in ... I created my Twitter account, I also added the widget to this site in order for you to see what I'm up to. However I'd like more to follow others, I tweet if I have short messages not suitable for blog. I will for no reason tweet about me zipping coffe in the morning, nor about me

WAS 8 for Developers - yes it's free

2011-06-18T10:12:00.000+03:00

It might be that IBM's announcements are not targeting prospective customers or students that much, since I do encounter people saying WAS is not free to use for development and learning activities. Yes it is, go get it: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ws/wasdevelopers/index.html

JazzHub Beta

2011-06-06T16:51:00.003+03:00

now, this is something worth space on my blog, in order advocate good technology. I've been increasingly using Jazz and RTC, it actually rocks, so next things have to get better ... https://jazz.net/hub/manager/ update: Following Dan's comment below... My first thought is that IBM is now following a better strategy into making its smart technology popular, starting with college and

Enterprise Architecture (EA) view from an IT Architect

2011-05-22T01:28:00.000+03:00

This post wants to share with you my take on EA, after attending a course led by some smart people. I won't share their names without permission, but they're smart, that I can tell you. Note: this work may change over time as I read more. I actually didn't had the time to read topics/articles on EA before attending this class. This is why I might be biased or even wrong. Feel free to comment or

projects failing. lessons learned.

2011-04-20T23:25:00.000+03:00

Having been involved in several engagements past months, I took some lessons from what I consider to be good technology with bad implementations. These were not necessarily failed projects but I had a feeling of unaccomplished work. And this is because I am usually passionate about the technology I work with and I want to drag people with me, which didn't happened. Why I had these mixed feelings

IBM WebSphere clip

2011-04-20T23:03:00.002+03:00

Didn't knew WebSphere emerged in 1998, the year I started my career in IT. However, WebSphere is currently laying around in most IBM products, across all IBM brands. Such examples I'm aware of: WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Process Server, Tivoli Access Manager, DB2 CM, FileNet. One good piece of technology which worth the learning effort. Java developers will eventually hit some WebSphere

IBM systems fell but didn't stop

2011-03-31T07:07:00.001+03:00

The pictures from Timothy's article below are a testimony not only on resilience but on the difference made by proper solution design. http://mainframe.typepad.com/blog/2011/03/earthquake-in-japan-ibm-machines-kept-running.html

was recommended readings

2011-03-22T20:12:00.001+02:00

I just found this list of developerworks articles and redbooks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0305_issw/recommendedreading.html Something struck me on the article: "Date: Dec 2010 (Published 25 Feb 2003)" ... pretty impressive, isn't it ? I'll parse the list, could it be something I didn't knew ? :)

RSA 8.0.2 on the horizon

2011-03-14T21:27:00.000+02:00

Being to busy lately to post new stuff, this is my way to let you know that RSA 8.0.2 hit the Eclipse update. Yummy, bugs fixed :) http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27018962#802

celebrating 100 years.

2011-01-23T08:38:00.000+02:00

cool videos to watch. Some of the things presented I didn't knew were build into IBM's labs. Good for culture. I'm also a proud IBMer, for what it's worth :)

awarness. rational.

2010-12-01T06:52:00.000+02:00

It popped into my RSS feeds, I liked and agree with the message from the video, I'm sharing:

gist.com with Lotus Notes plugin. Good, but needs improvement.

2010-10-07T15:23:00.000+03:00

Having purchased my Android (Desire) phone, and using Ubuntu as the primary workstation, my main frustration is waiting for Android Lotus Traveler, which I've seen is work on progress. While waiting, one of my colleagues pointed me towards gist.com, which aggregates contacts from gmail, gmail contacts, linkedin, android (my choices, there are others like facebook and twitter which I don't and

back from holidays

2010-09-18T09:40:00.001+03:00

Two and a half weeks, approx 3.000 km by car. These are the locations we've travel: View holidays 2010 in a larger map What I learned is that: - Children don't care at their age (7 and 8 years old, two girls) about bizantine, greek or roman history. But taking them at museums and archaelogical sites might encourage them to read and learn more. - I am an ignorant. - Tribute for this vacation

I found the missing part - gluebox

2010-07-01T21:13:00.000+03:00

Since I started my Ubuntu journey, there was a missing piece. Now I'm so happy that I am sharing this with you, before I put this to work in order to find out its reliability. It's about a note taking program to store ideas and notes I usually take during engagements or readings. Now I found a true candidate, Gluebox The good part is that it's Eclipse based, which makes me rather comfortable

this is what I call good advertising

2010-06-30T13:33:00.000+03:00

longest tennis game in history. and a fun scoreboard.

2010-06-24T00:11:00.000+03:00

If you know the score in tennis, this will interest you. The next story happened today. These guys will start tomorrow finishing the fifth set. 2 consecutive games determines the winner. But now the score is 59-59. OMG ! Except this, the fun part is the scoreboard. Once it hit 50-50, it went baloney, starting all over from 0-0 Is this an analysis exception or some software bug ? Since the

ubuntu - what I have and what I miss.

2010-06-21T21:42:00.000+03:00

I wanted to somehow give a status as to how am I going towards my day-to-day living in Ubuntu 10.04 What I like: - Notes 8.5.x running from the Windows partition, out-of-the-box, just by edit the /opt/lotus/notes/data/notes.ini on Ubuntu, and set Directory=/media/win_disk/path_to_notes_data When booting Ubuntu, after login, I need to remember to open Nautilus in order to mount the Windows

RMC 7.5.0.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid - fix the embedded browser

2010-06-21T21:15:00.000+03:00

The past days endeavor for sure worth this post. Rational Method Composer was the "must have" software to run on my current dual-boot configuration. I could not open any element, the backward Eclipse keep throwing errors like: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles (java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-mozilla-gtk-3349 or swt-mozilla-gtk in swt.library.path, java.library.path or the jar

Ubuntu conversion. First impressions.

2010-06-08T00:04:00.000+03:00

I'm on the road of becoming another linux convert. For the moment I'm on dual boot with Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid and the old (3 years old) XP partition. So far so good, I'm expecting some glitches but hopefully none of them blocking. I managed to configure the Notes 8.5 client with the embedded Sametime to use the data folder mounted on the XP partition, so from the business communication point of view