IBM moving to electronic support only
Sat, May 19th 2012 12:50a Mikkel Heisterberg Starting June 2012 customers are "requested" to start opening IBM Serbice Requests (SR) using the electronic support portal and from 2013 only electronic entry will be possible for severity 2, 3 and 4. This is in no way a surprise and makes IBM move funds from the probably costly phone based support they are offering now and probably also makes a lot more sense for supplying all the relevant information. This is all well and good so long the quality of the data entry forms are top notch. More [read] Keywords: ibm
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Joda Time comment
Fri, May 11th 2012 12:15a Mikkel Heisterberg While Joda Time is a great library there is an easier way to accomplish what you are trying to do. Simply remove the time component by doing a simple modulus calculation. I am not trying to be smart about it but we do this quite a lot at OnTime :) Code could look like so:
Date d = new Date();
long lngTime = d.getTime();
lngTime -= lngTime % TimeUnit.DAYS.toMillis(1);
Date dNoTime = new Date(lngTime);
The latter date object creation isn't actually necessary for the comparison. An utility funct [read] Keywords: java
Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work
Sun, Apr 22nd 2012 12:08p Mikkel Heisterberg Excellent TED video on why work doesn't happen at work.
"Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. At TEDxMidwest, he lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work."
"Jason Fried thinks deeply about collaboration, productivity and the nature of work. He's the co-founder of 37signals, makers of Basecamp and other web-based collaboration tools, and co-author of "Rework."" [read] Keywords: collaboration
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AWS Marketplace
Thu, Apr 19th 2012 7:56a Mikkel Heisterberg Just got word today that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now offering a Marketplace (aws.amazon.com/marketplace) where ready made Amazon Machine Instaces (AMI's) can be easily purchased. Besides featuring instances from many top software vendors it also features AMI's for OpenSource solutions such as Tomcat, JBoss, MongoDb etc. There are currently 7 IBM AMI's available.
IBM DB2 Workgroup Edition
IBM WebSphere Application Server
IBM DB2 Express Edition
IBM Tivoli Monitoring on Linux - 50 Virtual [read] Keywords: domino
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Go the f*ck home!
Thu, Apr 19th 2012 7:31a Mikkel Heisterberg Really loved this Ignite Talk with a very provocative title - Go the f*ck home! (link to video on YouTube) as it confirms something I'm a strong believer in - you do not get more done just because you spend more time at the office. The talk also points to an interesting study on this (SCHEDULED OVERTIME AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS). [read] Keywords: office
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Tag til brugergruppe i Norge
Thu, Apr 19th 2012 7:29a Mikkel Heisterberg Kan du ikke deltage i Dannotes i starten af maj og/eller trænger du til at se nye mennesker eller få nye impulser så tag til den norske Notes brugergruppe LSBG d. 23. og 24. maj i Larvik. Jeg var deroppe sidste år og det er et virkelig lækkert sted helt ud til vandet relativt tæt på vandet. Larvik nås nemt med Norwegian fra Kastrup (kender ikke mulighederne fra Billund). Agendaen kan ses på hjemmesiden hvor [read] Keywords: notes
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Amazon gives Google a run for its money with CloudSearch
Thu, Apr 12th 2012 6:20a Mikkel Heisterberg I'm a big proponent of Amazon Web Services (AWS) so it came as no surprise when Amazon today announced its latest addition to the AWS family - AWS CloudSearch.
"Amazon CloudSearch adds search capabilities for your website or application without the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search platform. Amazon CloudSearch seamlessly scales as the amount of searchable data increases or as the query rate changes, and developers can change search parameters, fine tune search relevan [read] Keywords: application
google
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Authenticating a web service request
Tue, Apr 10th 2012 7:07a Mikkel Heisterberg In my current project I needed to place an authenticated web services request from Lotus Domino to an Oracle SOA endpoint. Turned out to be extremely easy using the Lotus Domino web services consumer feature as I just used the setCredentials(String, String) method which then adds the necessary Authorization header to the HTTP call. Below is an example.
MyEchoServiceLocator l = new MyEchoServiceLocator();
MyEcho u = l.getDomino();
u.setCredentials("Domino Admin", "password");
String result = [read] Keywords: admin
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Round up of trip to Tokyo and AusLUG
Tue, Apr 10th 2012 3:36a Mikkel Heisterberg I'm back in the office after two weeks away for going to Tokyo, AusLUG in Melbourne, Australia, and then Easter vacation. While the latter is of no particular interest to anyone (I think) my trip might be. Let us get the most obvious thing out of the way first - we did a lot of flying. Besides having been in Antwerp, Belgium, on the Thursday/Friday for BLUG before going on this trip we went Copenhagen-Singapore-Tokyo-Singapore-Melbourne-Singapore-Frankfurt-Copenhagen in 8 days! The trip earned [read] Keywords: ibm
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