Archive for July, 2006

Aptana: The Web IDE

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Have a look at Aptana: The Web IDE. Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure Error and warning notification [...]

Hannover by Jeff Eisen

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Jeff Eisen has posted a great technical introduction to the next major release of Lotus Notes (code name “Hannover”). To summarize, here are the main points from the introduction: Hannover refers to the Notes client. The Domino server that will be released with Hannover is code-named “Domino Next”. Hannover will most certainly be known as [...]

Now Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 is free too

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Microsoft is now offering their Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for free – thereby joining VMware who offers their VMware Player for free. On the server side of virtualization software Microsoft offers Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 for free and VMware offers VMware Server for free.

Draft Redbook on Linux virtual servers under z/VM

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

A draft Redbook on Linux virtual servers on IBM zSeries and System z9 under z/VM is available. The Redbook shows in a cookbook format how to install and configure z/VM in an LPAR and then how to install Linux under the z/VM – thereby enabling Linux on z/Series. The book uses RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 [...]

Lotus Domino and designing for accessibility (Show’n Tell Thursday)

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

I have just completed a project with the purpose of modifying an existing web site based on Lotus Domino to make it accessible – that is to allow access to people with disabilities. The changes to the web site makes it usable to for example a person with visual disabilities who can use a screen [...]

Webcast: IBM Rational Data Architect for Blueprinting Your Enterprise Infrastructure

Friday, July 14th, 2006

IBM is hosting a webcast titled “IBM Rational Data Architect for Blueprinting Your Enterprise Infrastructure” on July 18, 2006. From the description: “Learn how Rational Data Architect can help your organization gain a full and thorough understanding of your enterprise information architecture and how to create master blueprint of this information in the form of [...]

PHP for SOA and the free Websphere Application Server

Monday, July 10th, 2006

IBM has announced “a simple way for customers to use PHP technology to develop and execute applications in a service oriented architecture (SOA) using IBM’s open source-based application server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition.” Go ahead and download the free WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and the PHP Integration Kit for WAS CE. [Via [...]

Lotus Notes on Linux

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Ed Brill and others (Andy Piper, DomBlog.de, Sean Burgess) have already blogged about the recent announcement from IBM that a Lotus Notes client will be available for Linux and ready for download via Passport Advantage on July 24, 2006. It is a very interesting announcement for Linux desktop users.

Using Eclipse for C/C++ software development

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Just wanted to remind you that you can use Eclipse and the Rational design and construction products for your C/C++ software development projects as well as for your Java projects. There is an article on developerWorks called “C/C++ development with the Eclipse Platform” that provides an overview of how to use the Eclipse Platform in [...]