tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252816512009-12-09T09:11:53.175+02:00Domino,Java,Foss related stuff or ramblingsRadu Cadariunoreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-55892613925532971092009-08-01T18:34:00.003+03:002009-08-01T18:51:39.845+03:00

right. I generally do not speak about politics. This is however an exception.Romania is a beautiful country. Below clip shows what I mean.Most of you reaching this blog are from abroad, as shown by my google analytics. So, you must have heard about Nadia, Ilie and Hagi. But have you ever heard about a bunch of politicians which cannot make decisions so that highways can be build in 20 years ?

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-26249967244867569672009-07-31T13:08:00.003+03:002009-07-31T13:21:20.350+03:00

It's been a while since I highlighted free software to use. Now it's time for me to mention that I settled on the following:JXplorer This used to be the world's finest LDAP browser for me, until 5 minutes ago, when I discovered LDAPAdmin.Kudos to the developers of both LDAP browsers.

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-52881191840025132652009-07-18T15:45:00.004+03:002009-07-18T16:04:12.327+03:00

I think you'll find on this blog some posts already saying that Domino to Exchange/Sharepoint migration is useless from a ROI perspective. If you're running Domino, stick with it, invest in upgrade to 8.5 and skills around Domino, and better focus of delivering applications, solving your business problems and so on. Let Domino do its job because it does it better than any other MS technology. Now

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-84443368345786834812009-07-17T19:54:00.003+03:002009-07-17T20:15:52.860+03:00

pass on the news. Via this Dave Hay's post, I found out about the new IBM's JVM related blogBe it WebSphere or Tivoli line of products, all of them embeds WebSphere App Server, thus IBM's JVM. Do you work on something WebSphere or Tivoli ? You work on IBM's JVM. For me, I'll follow the blog to see who to contact internally at the next big performance issue :) Finding expertise even when you're on

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-29347594401392756872009-07-14T22:53:00.005+03:002009-07-14T23:18:57.160+03:00

I am starting this writing on a subject which has already been discussed over and over again. Younger fellows (not surprisingly) seems to not make a difference between "programmer" and "developer". Being in this industry for more than 10 years, I do. For others as my fellow mates who cannot distinguish between the two, here are the links from the Sun's certification pages:programmer vs.

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-52376706481486521732009-06-23T07:38:00.004+03:002009-06-23T07:59:13.059+03:00

If you think other Java IDEs are snappier then either RAD or RSA, you might be right. This was my impression as well after recently starting to use Rational Eclipse tools on a daily basis.However, just as I was posting an article on the internal IBM's blogging network asking for help, I ran into this article which gave me an idea to try. Right, afterall Eclipse is the foundation of RAD / RSA /

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-89148154657598744132009-06-03T08:45:00.004+03:002009-06-03T09:20:25.983+03:00

here's why : an fellow IBMer responds on Twitter to some query about some sensitive project, read the story hereI have no details on the story itself. I only see that an IBMer gets in a mess because he allows itself to say the word 'ridiculous'. So, be carefully what you write, when you write and who's your audience. This is why you won't see me on Twitter. I don't fancy this real-time kind of

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-52684238169434586992009-04-04T10:47:00.003+03:002009-04-04T11:05:43.331+03:00

Continuing my last night saga, I wanted to get back some widgets I had with some Notes 8.5 themes. Looking into the internal widget database, drag'n drop a widget, and briefly saw it's connecting to www.noteswidgets.comI said: WOW ! They released the IBM internal widget catalog to the public !! Cool stuff. But when did I missed the announcement ? I think this should have been marketed a little

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-34341488570226113352009-04-04T01:20:00.003+03:002009-04-04T01:55:35.178+03:00

Don't do what I did. If it works, don't break it. And if you happen to not read this and you broke it, then you might find this tip useful. You might have a chance by deleting / renaming the \workspace folder. When you next 'reboot' your Notes client, it just might work. And here is my story: I was not happy with the looks of my Notes 8.5 eclipse client. Since I already new about the

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-40110327707497312162009-02-18T07:26:00.002+02:002009-02-18T07:46:38.812+02:00

It must have passed about 5 years (or maybe more) since I discovered the ProcessExplorer.exe utility built by Mark Russinovich at sysinternals.com (at the time).Now they've been bought by MS (good for them), and I sincerely hope MS will include Mark's utilities in their future OS (if they didn't already done so), and Mark would become a multi-millionaire, because it deserves it :) I hope I'll

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-52582169559371819742009-02-08T09:44:00.003+02:002009-02-08T10:07:32.916+02:00

For the Eclipse / Rational / Expeditor fans, I'we already mentioned how useful ISA (IBM Support Assistant) can be. Let me refresh this, as they constantly update the tool.Apart from the IBM support searches, it also includes IBM Java tools for different analysis (log viewers, java heap and core analysis and so on). All these tools comes and Eclipse plugins, deep burried within the install of

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-63382726331348156892009-02-08T08:52:00.002+02:002009-02-08T09:07:07.921+02:00

Finally, a solution for me to time track what I do, and have this information in my business Notes 8.5 calendar. It involves three pieces of software, but looks pretty nifty. 1. Notes 8.5 can display Google Calendar. If you didn't knew it, search planetlotus.com or Saint Google on how-to accomplish this.2. I discovered a pretty nifty piece of time-tracking software, thanks to LifeHacker site.

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-30869357177170237152009-01-26T23:55:00.004+02:002009-01-27T00:28:41.580+02:00

today I discovered how to solve an issue which has been bugging me for quite some time. I owe it to Peter Haumer, whose answer I happened to saw on some internal forum.I think I've spoken before about Rational Method Composer (RMC) and how well suited is this tool for architects trying to put pieces together in projects, engagements, processes and the like. If you have no idea what RMC is up to,

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-22918092537883912392009-01-25T00:59:00.003+02:002009-01-25T01:43:08.516+02:00

Scenario: suppose you are a new IBM customer. Or, suppose you work for an IBM Business Partner. Either way, suppose you have access to the SW Catalog Downloads of IBM. And you want to get your brand new packages for WebSphere Portal. Version 6.1, Extended. And final supposition: you want to download and install/test Portal on Linux, then on AIX. So far, so good. You access the Catalog, search for

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-57073049967130988762009-01-10T09:07:00.003+02:002009-01-10T09:16:32.255+02:00

Via my Thunderbird feeds, I ran into this post from Stephan's blog.Going from that, I opened the first lecture from YouTube, from here and here's my confession: I would love to attend this course back in my university days. Particularly this question from the lecturer (Mehran Sahami) raised my attention: "how many people (in this room) recognize when a computer is on ?". Seems like fun going

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-11618638239532052092009-01-08T14:10:00.004+02:002009-01-08T14:32:03.554+02:00

You must already know by now that notes 8.5 goodies have been released.I upgraded. Took some long time (about 20 minutes) to upgrade from 8.5 beta 2. So when you upgrade, plan some time. I actually upgraded without any previous local data backup, no issues.I also increased the Notes 8.5 JVM Heap, by altering:\framework\rcp\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.rcp.j2se.win32.x86_1.6.0.20080709-200808151631\

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-18288588401171057172008-12-21T07:57:00.004+02:002008-12-21T08:28:21.770+02:00

Remember I wrote a post about me using IBM Omnifind Personal Email Search (IOPES) ? Well, I'm still using it. Could not find another alternative, this is good enough for me searching about 8000 (and counting) locally stored mails, in one archive and one mail replica. On Lotus 8.5 beta2.As I am writing this post, I've just installed (not upgrading, which is a feature request) the latest version

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-82615792180738783712008-12-20T07:31:00.003+02:002008-12-20T07:40:46.854+02:00

for those of you starting to mock with the WebSphere performance issues, start by understanding the underlying IBM JVM which is by default used in all WebSphere products. There's a 'java diagnostics guide' for each version. The same is true for SUN's virtual machine, but here's the link to the IBM's diagnostics guides:Diagnosis Documentation

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-11187266211107527552008-12-20T06:59:00.003+02:002008-12-20T07:31:15.758+02:00

sorry for the absence. I've been busy. Now that I somehow managed to get into the winter holidays, though some would have argued (I really didn't knew until yesterday that I will be able to take this vacation), I have a little story to share.It's about the source of not some genius program. And not Domino. But WebSphere. Actually, the startup script of a WebSphere. startServer.shI learn all the

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-18658371496008960792008-09-28T09:10:00.003+03:002008-09-28T09:26:50.509+03:00

I am biased in this OOXML saga, I admit. But what happened with the adoption of OOXML as a standard, using the fast track process instead of the normal one, is not fair. And I am saying this just by looking into what happened in Romania regarding the vote, which is summarized by more enthusiast fellow looking at the process. Since it appears Romania is not the only country whose committee was

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-2044206635883513502008-09-24T17:04:00.002+03:002008-09-24T17:17:11.309+03:00

sometimes I have to dig/test/dig some more/test again/curse a little/ to get something done with this piece of Portal. But when it's done, it's done. And little lessons can be added to this blog :)So, what did I learned today ? That you actually need to perform a check-out/check-in ant tasks for WMM (WebSphere Member Manager) in order to have your changes effective.I wanted to change the LDAP

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-73237722606456678702008-09-22T07:55:00.004+03:002008-09-22T08:03:53.792+03:00

I've changed the About section of this blog, since the spammers found my gmail address and I currently have about two hundred spam messaged daily. Fortunate, gmail spam handling is pretty good so only a couple of these get by.Related to this, guess what's in the attached picture ...u're right, this is a Lotus widget displaying my Gmail account.Just a good illustration of Lotus Widgets actually

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-89572851688741439392008-09-09T05:23:00.004+03:002008-09-22T08:09:00.684+03:00

- I wish to be able to quit smoking. Starting now and marking this point to the blog as to remember it. Quitting is all about my brain and my will.- I wish IBM will implement the IBM Installation Manager into the WebSphere Application Server, so updating and applying a fixpack for either WAS and/or Portal to be a breeze, not a torture as it is right now.- I also wish for a Canon xSi D450, which

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-19309381629823346762008-09-06T06:33:00.005+03:002008-09-06T07:05:08.733+03:00

Two things:1. I uninstalled Chrome. Because I saw some privacy concerns on some blogs, because I didn't liked it and because FF is too much great of a browser. As somebody said somewhere, if FF plugins will work with Chrome, its speed might be an argument. But Google has a long way to make it an useful browser. And I no longer have the time to test things just for fun. I'm sure it will be a good

Radu Cadariunoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25281651.post-42616069581211998792008-09-02T07:40:00.005+03:002008-09-02T08:11:40.333+03:00

Now with the summer vacation gone, it's time to plan the winter vacation :)But this is another story, I'd better focus on this topic's subject ....So, I am using the 8.5_M2 version of Notes client as the business mail client. Overall it's better, however I am still frustrated. I don't get it, I expect the "Search All Mail" to perform the Full-Text search on my Local mail replica as well as in all

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