Archive for May, 2006

Down for maintenance?

Friday, May 19th, 2006

As I write this, the IBM developerWorks site is down for maintenance… perhaps someone should have a look at the web architecture behind the developerWorks site to avoid downtime when doing maintenance “The IBM developerWorks Web site is currently under maintenance. Please try again later.” Actually I was going to the developerWorks site to read [...]

The benefits of software architecting

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Peter Eeles (Senior IT Architect, IBM) has published his fourth and final article on developerWorks Architecture in a series on software architecture – this time on the benefits of software architecting. The article “covers the benefits that a business and an IT organization can derive from a sound software architecture”. The article appears in the [...]

Write AJAX apps using Java (Google Web Toolkit)

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

Google Web Toolkit has been released. From the overview: “Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of [...]

Code name: "Hannover"

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

As blogged by Alan Lepofsky and Ed Brill, IBM has unveiled more information on the upcoming release of Lotus Notes (code name “Hannover”). Please notice that “Hannover” is to include word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation capabilities!

Tutorial: Hello World, Part 1 – Rational Software Architect

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

A new tutorial called “Hello World, Part 1: Rational Software Architect” has been posted on developerWorks. The tutorial is the first tutorial in the “Hello World! Series”, which will provide high-level overviews of various IBM software products. Part 2 of this series will introduce you to Rational Application Developer. The tutorial “introduces you to IBM [...]

Mainframe for new purposes?

Monday, May 8th, 2006

According to The New York Times IBM will later today be “introducing software tools, academic programs and support for outside developers that IBM says are intended to bring new business and new programmers to the mainframe. IBM is trying to position the mainframe for corporate customers as a ‘hub of Internet-based computing.’” Also according to [...]

IBM developerWorks podcasts

Monday, May 8th, 2006

As pointed out by Bill Higgins developer-focused podcasts are now available over at IBM developerWorks.

A tour of the new features and technology in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

New article on developerWorks: “Taking a tour of the new features and technology in IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5″