New Year, New Start
Very slowly, my brain is coming round to the idea of getting back in to some work today. Any minute now I will boot my development server, which has been resting for the last two weeks, and see what I can remember. Then I have to decide where to start. Besides having real work to do I have give priorities to some of the resolutions I've made and make sure I keep to them. There's more to it than weight loss!
The changes that you lot will be interested in should help keep codestore.net interesting for at least another year. One promise I will make is to guarantee at least one article for every month of the year. There, I've said it. Now I have to do it! I will also try and keep blog entries interesting and topical. For the most part last year I was guilty of straying off-topic, while I was enjoying the time where I wasn't working. I know some of you enjoy reading about what I am doing away from the PC, but the majority of you simply want to learn useful stuff. Don' you?
Not wanting to be outdone by Mike's brilliant new overhaul I will also be making some changes to this site. Nothing quite as radical though. Most of the changes will be backstage and you probably won't notice them at all. For a while now I've been slowly upgrading the site's template to use all the new Domino 6 features. When I've done I will probably write an article about the changes I made, and why I did.
This year will also be either make or break for my new business venture - Rockall Design. If, at the end of the year, I am no better off I will have to make a decision about its future and whether or not to return to office-based employment. You can expect a lot of self-promotion throughout the year.
All in all, it should be an interesting year. Stick around won't you...
No comments until now!?
For me, I'll stay with you again this year :-)
In spite of my comments being ignored most of the time just because I am a bit off-topic or philosophical some times...
Maybe you can show us a useful application on websphere this year? I installed WSAD and went through the examples but installing millions of EJBs and JSPs does not mean that I can create ONE useful EJB or JSP etc by myself.
Would I ignore you mt? ;o)
How did you install WSAD? Don't you need a huge server with 2GB of RAM?
Hi Jake,
hope you are well. WSAD (Application Designer) is the Development IDE but includes a Websphere Server afaik. The concept may be similar to Domino Designer. As it is Java based I think first of all you need RAM, RAM, RAM but it should run on a quite modern Desktop PC or Laptop 1 GHz+, 512 MB RAM and more. Unfortunately it is not free so to work beyond a testing period is quite expensive afaik.
For Rockall Design. I do not want to be offending but the website looks some kind of.. How should I say this, well I think you expect that people know codestore. This might not always be the case. Good luck. I am going on my own this year too.
Cheers
Heini
Heini. Don't worry. You won't offend me. The site is just a "holder" at the moment. Within the next month I really MUST get something there to dazzle the pants off visitors...
Installation of WSAD: As Heini said, 1GHz and 512MB RAM, but it is slow !!! We are BusinessPartner for Software and purchased the Value Package (2000$) so I can play aroundwith all IBM software :-) It includes licences to 'run your business' too !