MoPhos

Check out this link to learn more about modern lifestyle in Phoenix, AZ. Modern Phoenix is a neighborhood network featuring information and photos of art and architecture in the Valley of the Sun.

Tips for keeping Maven projects portable

A recent posting on the DevX.com site asks " How portable is your Java project? How many modifications must be made to a build environment in order to produce a successful artifact?"

Word order ...

I was listening to an American football game a few days ago. One of the announcers made some comment about " ... an awful lot of players ... ". This made me wonder what would happen if he had talked about " ... a lot of awful players ... " instead.

Bucky's Bean Bag

The last two times I visited Prescott, I bought a bag of Whiskey Row coffee beans from Bucky's Bean Bag. This shop is located on fabled Whiskey Row. My co-workers and I enjoyed the coffee we made from the whole beans.

Arizona Coffee information

While stumbling around the Internet the other day, I found this interesting site about coffee. I live in Phoenix and I like good coffee. I hope to make good use of the information that Chris and others provide.

Link to Arizona Coffee

Word order ...

Many months ago after listening to a radio commercial for a local tire company, I began to ponder the difference between

• a wide variety of tires


• a variety of wide tires

Willie got busted again ...

According to a story on MSNBC, Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana.

Branching with cvs or subversion

Found these links while researching branching and tagging with cvs ...

• Link to Ish : Creating a subversion project with trunk, branch and tag directories…
  
• Link to Neeraj's Tech Scribbles: Creating a branch in CVS and using it from Eclipse
  
• Link to Jared's Weblog
  
• Link to CVS - Confluence
  
• Link to David Van den Brande's Weblog
  

DB2 News & Tips: 2006Q3 issue of DB2 Magazine available

DB2 News & Tips: 2006Q3 issue
of DB2 Magazine available

Reference site for online documentation

I found this link in today's email from SD Times.

A recent edition of The NewOrleans.Com - WEEKLY FOODFEST LETTER by Tom Fitzmorris contained these WORDS TO EAT BY:

"Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus."--Peter Ustinov.

Coffee Fool site

Another site for the coffee fools of the world

Programming Quotations

Ideas to ponder ... Link to Programming Quotations

Dark Reading - IBM Fights Crime in Canada - Security News Analysis

Link to Dark Reading - IBM Fights Crime in Canada - Security News Analysis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 When it comes to data classification and search, IBM has adopted a "grow your own" stance via Java-based development tools called the Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA). But a project in the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia could yield something more generally useable.

IBM is working with a local company called ADM Solutions (no Website), Cape Breton University, and the Cape Breton Regional Police Services, all of Sydney, Nova Scotia, to create a system that stores, classifies, and searches police crime data.

Naked Truth from a Motley Fool email message

Three-fourths of workers age 55 to 64 have less than $56,000 saved for retirement.

CVS: Tag files in multiple projects with same version

Invoke the following script to add a cvs version tag to multiple files ...

cvstag ver-1_2_3

------------ cvstag ------------
#!/bin/sh -x

export version=$1
export parts="part1 part2 part3"

mkdir /tmp/app
cd /tmp/app

for prj in $parts
do
cvs co $prj
cvs tag -R $version $prj
done

for prj in $parts
do
du -msk $prj
done

cd /tmp
rm -r app

Interesting Tee-Shirt

Tonight at the grocery store, I noticed the following on one man's tee-shirt, "Silence is Golden; Duct Tape is Silver"

The Next Generation: Q Replication

 

The Next Generation: Q Replication

By Anthony J. Ciccone and Beth Hamel

A new messaging-based architecture keeps latency low for even the most demanding applications.

Ten years ago, IBM first shipped DataPropagator Relational (DPROPR). Now, IBM is preparing new replication technology: Q Replication. DPROPR (now called DB2 Data Propagator), has been expanded over the years, and the resulting set of replication products has experienced substantial commercial success. So why has IBM put so much research and development effort into the creating a new replication architecture?

Source: The Next Generation: Q Replication

IBM Software - Information Management Books

Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
Authors: Scott W. Ambler, Pramodkumar J. Sadalage
ISBN: 0321293533

Source: IBM Software - Information Management Books

IBM Software - Complimentary Professional Certification Preparation Documents

 

The following preparation documents have been created to help you prepare for Information Management certification exams. Each document covers role descriptions, requirements, objectives and preparation suggestions.

Source: IBM Software - Complimentary Professional Certification Preparation Documents