http://ktn.blogsome.com Technology, Web 2.0, Domino, System i, etc. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:36:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s more and more common that the things we buy or are given come without manuals, documentation, drivers, etc. At least when you receive something as a gift from a company there’s no wonder the product is cheap and comes from we-know-where. It’s a shame that (I’m generalizing here) the entire ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2009/11/21/and-the-product-comes-from/ I just saw a blog post that Joydipto created about cscope. It made me remember of those days when I used it for my Domino for IBM i development on AIX + ClearCase. I really liked cscope, the only problem is that the machine where it was running wasn’t fast. Well, ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2009/10/09/i-used-cscope/ For several months now I’ve seen that when going to most of the IBM developerWorks articles, the main home page itself, and some other IBM sites like PartnerWorld, the CSS files don’t load and I end seeing plain Web pages without good navigation nor design (for obvious reasons). I didn’t care ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2009/08/04/ibm-developerworks-css-and-adblock-plus/ Man! It’s been a while since I last posted on this blog… Lots of changes happened at the end of last year and beginning of this one. Hope to have time later to create a post with that. I was reading an article about HTML and XHTML and wondered whether or ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2009/07/08/dynamic-loose-strong-strict-or-not/ This week I noticed that the Starbucks near my house changed the design and names of the list of items they sell, and the prices also changed. At first it gave me the impression that the prices had gone down a bit, but after seeing the prices on purchases I ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/11/08/starbucks-prepared-for-christmas/ The IBM Systems Magazine, Business Systems edition created a 5 page PDF with an illustration containing a 20 years timeline of the AS/400, now IBM i operating system on Power Systems hardware. When I joined IBM in 1998, development of OS/400 V4R4 was on going and obviously there were support for ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/11/08/20-year-timeline-of-the-as400/ I read an article that came in the September issue of the Harvard Business Review named “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity” containing a sentence that I’m not sure if Ed Catmull, the author, was the one who said it or not, but I really think it’s true. If you give a ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/09/15/mediocre-or-not/ You would remember that several weeks ago I was asking if Juice will ever support Atom feeds because internally in IBM we have a huge repository of podcasts, videos, webcasts, presentations, etc., for which Atom feeds are provided to subscribe with a podcatcher. So I tried to use iTunes to subscribe ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/08/31/apple-do-you-know-what-atom-is/ On Wednesday I received my July copy of Communications of the ACM and I have to say that it looks nice, and new! The content has always been very good, but now the feeling is like you really have in your hands a magazine that features and talks about the ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/07/26/the-new-communications-of-the-acm/ I have been very interested lately in articles, studies, etc., about Virtual Teams scattered in different locations throughout the world and their interaction. Primarily because I’m in one Global Virtual Team since several years ago working on the development and support of IBM Lotus Domino for System i (including QuickPlace, ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/07/05/global-virtual-teams/ Anybody knows if Juice will ever support Atom feeds? It has been sleeping for several years now that I’m sure there are not developers left doing anything with it. Anyone knows how can I get the source code? I would like to take a look and see if I can add ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/07/05/juice-please-meet-atom/ Some hours ago I read this post and it’s sad and unfortunate that when pride and you-know-who reign in your soul it’s obvious that you won’t believe in anything, in fact I have seen and heard people that say they are god. Success, happiness and wisdom are essential things that ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/06/15/pride-what-a-shame/ With great excitement I can tell you now that IBM Lotus Symphony 1.0 is available for everyone to download for free! It has good support for ODF, OpenOffice, MS Office and Lotus SmartSuite documents, so you can get rid of all of those other office applications and have just one installed ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/06/02/ibm-lotus-symphony-10-now-available/ I just finished hearing episode 27 of the No Agenda podcast and the stuff about China is pretty interesting. Worth a look. http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/no-agenda-episode-27-china-syndrome/ I was just informed today that one of the few supercomputers that UNAM got last year partially burned. It never worked well, and when it reached the 50% utilization it burnt. Won’t mention here any of the strange things that seemed to happen in the deal between HP and the ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/04/22/unam-loses-its-hp-supercomputer/ Some months ago I read a magazine that I would rather call Software Newbie due to the basic nature of its articles, it comes with some translated articles from some other sources but anyways I don’t recommend it much. What was interesting, but not surprising, was the survey that they made ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/04/07/mexico-2007-it-salaries-survey/ I just read the article “Some Viruses Come Pre-Installed” by the Associated Press in ABC News and the fact that any type of gadget (hardware) coming from China could contain several viruses and infect your computers is very bad. Not only gadgets come with several viruses each like iPods, digital picture ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/30/beware-of-products-made-in-china/ Some time ago I read Andrew McAfee’s article “The Ties that Find” where he cites a really good article created in 1973 by Mark S. Granovetter called “The Strength of Weak Ties“. I didn’t have the chance at that time to read the article but, some weeks ago I decided ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/26/social-networking-and-weak-ties/ I just read an article in the IBM Systems Magazine titled “Preparing for V6R1” which I suggest you go and read if you’re planning to move to V6R1. It’s concise and well explained. The only thing that seem to not work is that I get a Server Error when trying ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/19/good-article-on-program-conversion-on-v6r1/ I just installed iTunes 7.6.1.9, the one that also contains Quicktime, but at the end of the installation my firewall software told me that a mDNSResponder.exe was trying to access the Internet so obviously what I did is to block it. Since it was in a Bonjour directory over the ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/18/apple-bonjour-why-doesnt-itunes-told-me/