Escape from boredom

I am now allowed to call myself “IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0” after completing the test “Test 000-377 – IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0, Core Administration” Required passing score 58%, my score 100% – I sure know how to prepare myself 🙂

Have spent some time the last week teaching myself the basics of Rational Automation Framework (RAFW) together with WebSphere Application Server 7. The RAFW-version I’m using is just an old beta, so it misses some features and have some bugs which the current release 7.1.1.2 have taken care of.
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WAS 7 have a new feature which enables you to provide a custom name BASE application servers. Not the most important feature, but using a more meaningful name than the default “server1” can be useful. But the beta-version of RAFW did not have this feature, so at first I thought “close, but no sigar” until Scott Bybee at Ascendant encouraged me to try to create a custom action providing this feature. Spent two days figuring this out until I was able to create a custom action providing this feature. It was really all about understanding the ANT-scripts RAFW is using, when that was taken care of it was really just a walk in the park to adjust the action into providing the custom name feature.

This was not a big issue, but the main purpose of doing this was understanding how to create a custom action in RAFW, which might be useful for other more critical features or needs which out-of-the-box RAFW does not provide.

Iphone and the Stockholm syndrome, funny reading in Norwegian http://www.digi.no/830770/%ABiphone-er-som-stockholm-syndromet%BB

– iPhone-brukere elsker og tilber mobilen sin, skriver Strand, og legger til: – iPhone er omkranset av et antall folk, medier og selskaper som gladelig tøyer sannheten for å forsvare produktet de har kjøpt fra Apple.

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Read the actual report here http://www.strandconsult.dk/sw3896.asp

Up until now I have posted work related stuff on http://blog.workplace.no, but since I’m not working there anymore I’ve created a new category in my own blog. So from now on I will be also be posting work related stuff which I want to shear with the rest of the world.

Today I want to share how you can find “Port number settings in WebSphere Application Server versions“. It lists default ports for WAS from 4.0 to 7.0, also valuable if you have changed the default ports and need to know which xml-file that contains this info. Saved me today…

Long time ago we bought a Canon video camera. To import and edit movies I use Imagemixer 3 SE, which was provided to me along with the camera. I’ve once before blogged about this application describing how I managed to find the solution of a totally stupid error message. Once again I do get a totally stupid error message, but this time I’m not able to find a workaround.

I’ve spent a couple of hours, way to many I now realize, editing a movie and all that was left was just to save it. No problem, the progress bar shows 10%, 20%, 90%, 98%, 99%, it even disappears, but just to let me see a dialog box saying “Could not create the file”. What a bunch of fu#”# crap!!! Stupid, freaking application from hell. But, ok, counting to ten, then do a search on the Internet. Go to http://www.pixela.co.jp and download the latest update…downloading…downloading…7 Mb, reading “This file only works if you have Imagemixer already installed” No problem, I have, so I click on the update.exe-file and get to click “next” once. Then

If you are having trouble understanding Norwegian it says “No previous version of Imagemixer 3 SE found, aborting…” What a bunch of crap!!! It is installed, arrrghh!!! I want to throw it all away, but for now I’m stuck with the shitty application.

@Update: Realized that it is not enough to just search for “Imagemixer 3SE”, but I had to add “Canon”. Then I found by using Google, not by looking at the Pixela homepage, a direct link to the download for ImageMixer 3 SE SD 3.1.2, not 3.1.3 for some other brand which I found first. So, now my app is updated from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2, but still, same freaking error.

Every now and then I get stuck with a Linux or Unix environment with no GUI available. Whatever the intention is, it does not take more than 2 minutes before I have to at least edit a single line in a file, leaving me with the only option to use vi. Like for instance now. Been using vi quite a lot the last week, learning geek-commands such as ZZ, y, p, i, I and A. Off course I knew :q! in advance. Just gotta love the tool I love to hate when using such commands, leave work for a week and try to remember them…impossible, you then need the Cheat Sheet.

You can also visit the VI Lovers page

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Marius, a colleague of mine from Workplace, told me once about this service, which I’ve now tested when configuring my new laptop. Just go to the website, check off the apps you want, download your customized installer and you’re on http://ninite.com/

Today is my last day as Senior Consultant for Workplace Consulting AS. Tomorrow I will be heading of to Fornebu, working for Telenor as System Specialist Middelware.

Been three very good years at WPC, but heading off to Telenor to get even more hands-on on WebSphere. Looking forward to that, also looking forward to be working at Telenorsenteret. Will be using bicycle as my main tool for transportation, maybe not during mid-winter, but from late March until early November it should be possible.

It is not that straightforward, meaning – you really need the user guide to figure it out, but when I finally found it, piece of cake. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=8870

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