ITJungle had a story in today’s email that talked about getting Jetty up and running on our beloved AS400. I wanted to mention it here because I believe this is a solid alternative to Websphere Application Server (WAS) from IBM and it was on my TODO list to “port” to the AS400; so I guess [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The other day on WEB400-L (midrange.com) Mr. Anderson mentioned that he saw my name in the JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference book written by Ed Burns (Senior Staff Engineer, Web Tier Architect and Co-Specification Lead for JavaServer Faces Technology, Sun Microsystems, Inc.). I had completely forgotten that about 3 or 4 years ago he had [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Microsoft has long been trying to get into the enterprise server market but has been unable to because their foundation is rotten (i.e. building a software that was meant for the desktop and a single user). Well they are now try to rectify that by introducing a new effort code named Midori which is in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Yesterday I was doing some testing on my Ubuntu Linux laptop to see if I could get my Sonicwall NetExtender VPN software working correctly (and I did through an interesting bug work-around, ping me if you are trying to get it working and I will let you know how I did it). During that process [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Of course as a father and someone who greatly enjoys programming computers I would want to test the waters to see if my children would also be interested in the same subject matter. (a bit selfish, I know, but I don’t try to steer my daughters away from other things like playing violin even though [...]
Read the rest of this entry »To those that like to sip their morning coffee and listen to talk shows, now is your chance to do all that AND have it be work related (i.e. RPG, DB2, AS400, SQL, etc)!!
Bob Cozzi is putting on a live show every week and has invited me to join in when I can. Bring your [...]
Earlier this week I was fed up with going back and forth between Linux and my virtual Windows XP (VirtualBox.org) because I was doing green screen stuff (TN5250j on Linux) and then WDSC – back and forth type style. My wish has always been to have IBM release a OS agnostic version of WDSC (i.e. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »As some of you may or may not know, I am a husband of seven years and have four children. I am lost for the reason Amanda ever fell in love with me, but was I sure glad to find such a patient woman.
Anyways, part of being a father is raising your kids [...]