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My friend and collegue Fredrik has recently started a photo-blog where he uses his mobile phone to send pictures directly via e-mail to flickr and flickr posts them to his blog. I like this idea and will try to do something like that from now on on my blog as well, I’m not going to [...]

How much choclate is appropriate to…, originally uploaded by mezga. …survive a conference?

The chillis are still growing, originally uploaded by mezga. I’m very keen on when it will be time for the first harvest. It’s Habanero and Piri-Piri chilli-peppers.

IBM has recently changed their design for their professional certification marks and guess what, they look crap. That’s at least my personal opinion about this re-design. That’s the new look for WebSphere: and this for Tivoli: Here is an example for how the logo looked like before: Not that this is very important but I [...]

Hendrik works at the software lab services at Hursley and this is the second time I’ve attended to one of his sessions, last time was in Atlanta 2006. The session was mainly focused on how high availability works within WAS and how you would deploy high available applications in your environment. HA compared to WLM [...]

One more session with Simon, this time about the capabilities to use IBM’s DataPower as an XML firewall in your corporate SOA network. This little colored pizza boxes come with real out of the box security capabilities. They provide a much higher level of security compared to other software based XML parsers as they are [...]

Simon Kapadia held the WAS (WebSphere Application Server) Infrastructure Security Hardening session at this years IBM Transaction & Messaging Technical Conference. Simon explained the following attack levels: -Network -Machine -External Application -Internal Application Isolation WAS V6.1 has improved security hardening by the the meaning “Secure by default” which means that Administrative Security is on by [...]

Tim Dunn who recently was a speaker at our this years “Integration Days” at Zystems held this very interesting session about performance in the WMB. Mainly the whole platform can be seen as 3 key building blocks which are Design, Development and Configuration & Tuning. Different pieces of components need to be reviewed as they [...]

After moving to Linux at home I finally decided to give Linux a try even on my Thinkpad. It’s a T43 so there are no issues with drivers and other stuff, everything just works as expected out of the box. My former colleague and friend Niklas had some more trouble with his T61p when he [...]

It was time again, after ~1,5 years of running Win XP my current home PC setup slowed down more and more heading for the re-install doomsday. But this time I decided to go for Linux instead. I’ve tested various distributions over the years and worked with both SLES and RHEL in my professional life. The [...]

Yepp, it’s time again for the IBM Transaction and Messaging Technical Conference 2007 this year in Vienna, Austria. Last year we were in Atlanta this year it’s Vienna. Hopefully we will meet up with all the friends from IBM in Hursley and with the guys from our partner company X-INTEGRATE. We’re going to have our [...]