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Last week in Düsseldorf

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Last week I attended the IBM WebSphere Technical Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. As always a good event when it comes to the stuff I’m working with, and also good for networking.

Some pictures – first two from the airport train to Gardermoen

The first hotel room I got, missing something important…the bed

At Saturn trying 3D-TV. A bit cool, but if you ask me “Do you want it?” the question is no, just look how stupid the glasses are 🙂

Monday evening at Brauerei Schumacher trying the Schumacher Alt-beer

Traditional German food

Out walking next to the Rhein river

Sorting in Perl

Work/Geek

I have had it with a menu in Build Forge – could not understand why the elements where not alphabetically sorted even though the Perl script generating the menu had a line like this

sort( @entries );

So Google to the rescue, I found this article about Perl Sorting Techniques http://www.perlfect.com/articles/sorting.shtml and just had to change the line of code to 

@entries = sort { $a cmp $b } @entries;

Problem solved!

Vidunderbarn – Roy Jacobsen

Books

Needed something to read when heading for Düsseldorf earlier this week, and this time I wanted something that more fiction than facts. Many years ago I read Seierherrene so I knew that he is a good writer. So therefore I did choose Vidunderbarn when at the book store at Gardermoen. Really enjoyable reading, even though the book leaves you with some unanswered questions – “…what did really happen…”. Well worth spending a few hours reading the book.

I am certified – RAFW

Work/Geek

I am now allowed to call myself “IBM Certified Deployment Professional on Rational Automation Middleware Solutions“.

The Deployment Professional has extensive product knowledge of some or all of the IBM WebSphere family of products, IBM Rational Build Forge and IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere and can independently perform configuration, training, and mentoring tasks on these products for deployment projects, with limited assistance from peers and vendor support services.

Extensive amount of RAFW usage the past few months and about two hours of preparations reading the Infocenter did the trick

Test Title: Test 000-055, Rational Automation for WebSphere
Start time: 10/14/2010 10:51:32 AM (GMT+0:00) (cst)
End time: 10/14/2010 11:21:41 AM (GMT+0:00) (cst)
Passing Score: 70%
Your Score: Pass (90%)

Xterm colors

Work/Geek

If you are using Xterm I assume that every once in a while you get annoyed by the colors. Today I just had to do something about it and I found the script provided at http://www.steike.com/code/xterm-colors/ … lovely!!