Poster at WSTC 2008
I haven’t had a chance to write up many of my thoughts from the WebSphere conference I’m attending in Las Vegas yet – the agenda is, as usual, absolutely jam-packed with content so I’ve not had much...
View ArticleWhat’s up with MQ?
I haven’t blogged about my core work for a while, so it’s probably about time. This is a bit of a round-up of some of the things I’ve observed happening around in the MQ space lately. WebSphere MQ...
View ArticleTime to make a change
It’s time to move on. Maybe there’s something in the air, since Roo left recently, and Dale has just written about his switch to new things. A seven-year itch? Almost exactly seven years ago, I was...
View ArticleMessage Brokers and Forbidden Cities
I’ve been reading a lot about the Beyond Space and Time project, which is bringing Beijing’s famous Forbidden City to life. As an eightbar person I’ve been aware of the project for quite some time, but...
View ArticleBuilding a mainframe with nodes and wires
Last Friday, I built a mainframe. It looks like this: Well OK. That’s a very, very big exaggeration. Let me explain. I’m doing some work at the moment that involves using some Enterprise Service Bus...
View ArticleMaking an IMPACT
Apparently there’s some Rational software conference in Orlando at the end of May. Of course, Lotusphere was out there at the beginning of the year too. Pah! Forget those! 🙂 For me, the place to be is...
View ArticleIMPACT: voice-enable your website
One of the coolest things I’ve seen this week at IBM IMPACT is some of the new technology that has just been made available in a WebSphere Feature Pack. The technology is for Communications Enabled...
View ArticleIBM WebSphere Application Server – free to developers
My friend Per and the guys who write the WebSphere Community Blog have already posted today to note that developers can now download and use WebSphere Application Server version 7.0 for free. Nada....
View ArticleWebSphere Message Broker for the win…
The very brilliant Martin Gale joined my team at work last week. I’ve known Martin for a few years now and we had a bit of a shared experience last year going through our professional certification at...
View ArticleLearn WebSphere Message Broker
A couple of weeks ago I noted that the highly talented Mr Martin Gale is allowing me to absorb his genius by osmosis, or at least by working in the same office. I also mentioned that he’s successfully...
View ArticleWebSphere Service Registry and Repository Redbooks
One of the products I’ve been becoming increasingly involved with as part of my work at Hursley has been WebSphere Service Registry and Repository. Rather than redefine what the product is here, I’ll...
View ArticleWebSphere Connectivity products v7 announcements
I briefly tweeted a few Fridays ago about one of the new products IBM announced at the start of this month. Regular / long-term readers will know that WebSphere Message Broker is one of my technology...
View ArticleWebSphere Message Broker. Seven.
Seems there’s a whole “7” theme going on around here lately… Barcamp London 7, WebSphere Connectivity v7… I’m very excited that WebSphere Message Broker version 7 has shipped today. I have a huge...
View ArticleAlpha, beta… [aka try stuff for free!]
A couple of small IBM Software announcements, depending on your point of view 🙂 WebSphere Application Server version 8.0 is now available to try out as an alpha version. This was announced over on the...
View ArticleImpact 2010 (and the cloud – no not that one!)
Despite the efforts of the volcanic cloud of doom, I’m currently teaching some of my peers from across north-east Europe (NE IOT in IBM parlance) at an education event in Germany. My specialist...
View ArticleMQTT: the Smarter Planet Protocol
I’m at the SHARE conference in Boston this week. Earlier today I gave a talk about one of IBM’s significant software announcements of this year: the forthcoming WebSphere MQ Telemetry feature....
View ArticleOS X mosquitto “bites”…
In my post last week about the new MQTT support coming to WebSphere MQ I very briefly mentioned that there are some third-party tools that already implement MQTT. One of those I pointed to is the very...
View ArticleProduct updates and new releases
I don’t have time to post an in-depth update on the latest announcements from IBM Hursley today but will hopefully have a chance to dig deeper on some of these later in the week. My colleagues in...
View ArticleA Smarter Planet needs lightweight messaging
One of the primary things I’ve been working on this year has been IBM’s new WebSphere MQ Telemetry product. I say “new”, of course, but the underlying technologies – WebSphere MQ itself, and the MQTT...
View ArticleInside the Sphere
One of the things I’ve taken on this year is a regular writing assignment for the Global WebSphere Community. If you’re a member of the community (and if you use or are interested in WebSphere...
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