AlbeesOnline has posted a great article showing how difficult integration projects can be when you need to work with teams spread across an organization. A relatively straightforward project turns into a Frankenstein of text files and workarounds. It also shows the reason why projects have meetings that involve 20-30 people five times a week, you […]
Is SOA Dead? – Webinar hosted by the WebSphere User Group
Well I sure hope not but the Global WebSphere Community is holding a one hour chat on the subject: begin a Session dates: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Starting time: 3:00 pm, GMT -05:00, Eastern Standard Time (New York) Many organizations have started down the path of SOA, only to find that reality is more challenging […]
Feature Request: Product Exceptions should include a Hyperlink to a Wiki
One of the biggest pain points in any IBM product are the non-sensical error messages that are generated by the products when something goes wrong. The exception itself usually doesn’t provide much of a clue as to the root cause of the issue. To proceed you either need to be an expert in reading stack […]
WebSphere Education YouTube Channel
If you like browsing YouTube and actually want to find something educational between all the pet videos, you can check out IBM’s WebSphere Education YouTube Channel. Who knows, maybe you’ll discover the next great internet meme there that will sweep the world. Or not.
IBM Podcast: Michael O’Connell interviews Steve Mills
I was listening to the podcast of Steve Mills being interviewed by DeveloperWorks. The nice thing about these podcasts is that they are transcribed, so you can read along. There were a few bits of information that were interesting to me. I was listening to the podcast passively, so I may have missed some even […]
My Contributions To The IBM External Community – The 24/7 Answer Man
I think some of my readers need a refresher course on exactly what I’m doing here and everything that I’ve contributed to the external IBM community (aka, the community that IBM does next to nothing to help thrive). I constantly post and answer questions of all levels in the two external newsgroups for WebSphere Integration […]
WebSphere User Group: Ask the Experts Session RIGHT NOW
In a case of the worst marketing for an event ever, I just received an email informing me that the Global WebSphere Community is holding an “Ask The Experts” event online from 10am Eastern to 10pm Eastern. You can join the conversation right now. The event is free, you just need to sign up with […]
WebSphere Process Server Discussions
The first question kicked off about the use of BPEL for non-business relevant flows. The answer was that it’s not a good idea in the long-term vision and hard evaluation of Java or BPEL should be performed to ensure it’s the right solution. The lack of a store-and-forward capability in the product was the next […]
ESB-CON VI: An Online Conference for the Enterprise Service Bus
Just a quick note that I plan on virtually attending the ESB-CON VI where some people are going to talk about ESB for four hours. This is my first time attending a virtual conference, so I’m interested to see how it all plays out. It starts Today at Noon Eastern Time (ie one minute). It’s […]
Nike: Successful Online Community Drives Product Sales
My thanks go out to Twitter’s SamLawrence for pointing out what Nike is doing in the Social Community Space and the success they are having. You guys sell apparel, what does an online community have to do with that? For Nike, you are no longer just buying a sneaker. You are joining the largest global […]
ROFLCon2008: Random Musings About Social Web And Community Building
In case you are out of the loop, ROFLCon 2008 is a day long conference out in Boston where they bring together the owners of the current internet meme phenomenons to talk about the state of internet culture. It’s a very interesting topic and I think, relevant to understanding how you can build a community […]
Part 3: IBM and the self-sufficient WebSphere Community – Developer Chats
Previously, I talked about what steps I think IBM could take in order to foster an external WebSphere Community with the goal that one day it would become self-sufficient. In the previous posts in the series: I talked about the benefits to IBM I talked about the holding an external conference call for practitioners I […]
Twitter Objectives with the ‘danZrobok’ Account
I’ve now been part of the Twitter community for about two weeks so I think it’s about time that I give my impressions of the medium. Tweet Styles So far, I’ve seen a few different styles of twittering: One one extreme end are people that treat it like a blog entry. They make good use […]
Part 2: IBM and the self-sufficient WebSphere Community – An External Conference Call
Previously, I talked about what steps I think IBM could take in order to foster an external WebSphere Community with the goal that one day it would become self-sufficient. In that first post, I outlined what I thought were the benefits for IBM to make it happen. In these next series of posts, I’m going […]
Impact 2008: SOA Jam – “Foster an External Community for Practitioners”
I’m going to use this post to record the discussion that generated during the Impact 2008 SOA Jam for my idea about “How IBM can foster an external community”. Now that Impact is over, I’d like to keep a copy of it’s point in time, and also allow any future readers to add comments. Foster […]
Impact 2008: SOA Jam – “ESB: Too Many Products, Skill Spread too thin”
I’m going to use this post to record the discussion that generated during the Impact 2008 SOA Jam for my idea about “Too ManyESBs, Skill Spread too thin”. Now that Impact is over, I’d like to keep a copy of it’s point in time, and also allow any future readers to add comments. ESB: Too […]
Impact 2008: SOA Jam Day 3
So today is apparently the final day of the SOA Jam at Impact 2008. Overall I saw a few overall themes in the ideas: Ideas on how to engage the business with SOA Tons of Ideas on How to create a “Smart SOA” community Ideas for needed case studies mostly from a generic non-provider viewpoint. […]
Impact 2008: Web 2.0 Social Networking Missing In Action
Over a twitter yesterday, James Governor lamented about the lack of official web 2.0 happenings a conference where we’re all talking about mash-ups, integrating communities and mass enablement. IBM’s youTube Channel has a single 1 minute video from day one, theres a twitter account created of the name “Impact2008“* which has no activity. Heck, even […]
Steve Mills Responds to My SOA Jam Idea about ESB
Well I must say I was taken aback when I saw that that my SOA Jam ESB question was responded to by Steve Mills: Steve Mills is a senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group. In this capacity he is responsible for directing the development, marketing, sales and support of IBM’s software portfolio. […]
Impact 2008: Impressions of Day 2 – SOA Jam
It’s now day two of SOA Jam and it’s has been running for about 48 hours now. While the overall rate remains the same as yesterday, it feels like there’s more going on in the Jam. As of today, we have 44 ideas and 146 comments. It look like the Jam will produce about 20 […]
Impact 2008: My impressions of Day One – Blogs & Twitter
I like Twitter for it’s honesty and humor, and I have enjoyed reading all the blogs that mention IBM Impact 2008. One thing that is a little surprising to me is that the universe of blogs on the topic is pretty low. My list of links includes about 6-8 people that I’ve been able to […]
IBM Partners Blocked from Rational Conference
From the newswire (eWeek), IBM Partners Blocked from Rational Conference. At least one vendor, Genuitec, maker of the MyEclipse IDE (integrated development environment) has said an IBM official called its representative and told them Genuitec was not welcome at the Rational Software Development Conference this year. Another company, AccuRev, which markets software configuration management and […]
Impact 2008: My impressions of Day One – SOA Jam
Seeing how I’m not at Impact 2008, my impressions are going to be more geared towards what I see being said in the blogs, the twitter stream and the participation in the SOA Jam. My first impression comes from the SOA Jam, where I think I’ve posted two pretty good ideas. The first being that […]
Impact 2008: Twitter HashTags.org #impact2008
Shout out to James Taylor who has identified how to follow the tweets that are going on during the conference. I also suggest that people follow Michael Cote on Twitter, I added him to my mobile device updates yesterday afternoon and got about 40 updates so expect to feel like you are there on the […]
Smart Enough Systems Blogging Impact 2008
Just quickie that Smart Enough Systems are also blogging Impact 2008 in depth. Very In depth. Like three articles already posted depth. Good job!
Impact 2008: Dana Gardner and Michael Coté Blogging the Conference
I’m not at Impact, so I’m a little diminished in my capacity to know who’s there, who’s blogging, what’s being talked about or exactly how many boat races Steve Mills can win in a row. Thanks to Michael Coté who is also blogging the conference and has his recap of the first few hours of […]
SOA Jam: Unify The Numerous Enterprise Service Bus Products
I’m on a roll right now with the Impact 2008 SOA Jam (a few hours before it opens officially of course) Anyway, the link is here and the content of the jam follows: What would implementing this idea accomplish? Some kind of consolidation needs to occur at either a runtime level, or tooling. Unify […]
SOA Jam: Foster an External Practitioners Community
I’ve posted my idea for an External Practitioners Community to the Impact 2008 SOA Jam. It can be viewed here (if you sign up) For those of you not inclined to participate, I’ve included the text below: What would implementing this idea accomplish? Currently, if I am a non-IBM practitioner on the WebSphere stack, I […]
IBM SOA Jam for Impact 2008
For Impact 2008: The SOA Jam is a 72-hour online discussion hosted at IMPACT 2008. Join your colleagues at IMPACT and worldwide in sharing your insights between 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. PDT on April 7-10, 2008. Don’t miss this opportunity to provide IBM with your input and help influence SOA success. Sign in to […]
Part 1: IBM and the self-sufficient WebSphere Community – IBMs Business Case
Previously, I lamented about the lack of a non-IBM community dedicated to WebSphere. In this series, I’m going to put myself in IBM shoes and describe what I would do to encourage the formation of an external community. Before I get into that, I’d like to reflect on the benefits it would bring to IBM […]