Monkey-Programmer-Boy: Trapped on planet Lotusscript

WEBSPHERE: War and Peace

There's some good stuff in developer works, like this:

"Recommended Reading List: Websphere Application Server"

I am going to download it all to the Dell pocket pc alongside all the Redbooks. I now estimate I will be dead before I finish it all. My grandson will finish it posthumously for me in 2086.

WEBSPHERE PORTAL: desperate measures

I have just returned from my son Eddie's school xmas panto. He bellowed out his number like a short Howard Keel; splendid as ever. Whilst waiting for the Nedmeister's stellar performance, I killed time by reading the rather informative "IBM Websphere Portal Handbook V5" on the Dell Pocket PC.

I couldn't help but notice the following sentence:

"At the core of the challenges currently being faced by Web developers is the integration of desperate user content into a seamless Web application and well designed user interface."

How very true.

WSAD: It can be manly in the debugger.

Debugging HTTP posts with WSAD:

1. Create a TCP/IP monitoring Server


2. Create a form.


3. Post to a servlet.


4. Right click to debug the form on the server.


5. WSAD browser Launches.


6. Fill in the form and post.


7. Debugger kicks in.


8. Step thru the servlet code.


9. Gaze in wonder at all the windows.


10. Check out the request input stream. (see pic)

It can be manly in the debugger you know.

Dodge City

In the Dodge City that is corporate IT, who are we? Are we the handsome, young Clint Eastwood in a Fist Full Of Dollars; chewing on a cheroot; hand twitching nervously over our Smith & Websphere revolver?

Or

Are we stuck in "Every Which Way But Loose" next to a big Orangutan that farts and thumps people? Beats me. But I think we all know; that down in the saloon; Doc.net Holiday has a royal flush; he's drinking bourbon and he's just finished his crisps.

WEBSPHERE: Is that a redbook in your pocket?

This week I find myself downloading all the Websphere Redbooks to my Dell Pocket PC. They are very readable with the rather fab Adobe Acrobat reader for Pocket PC. The diagrams are a bit iffy but otherwise a very handy resource. Much better that carrying around a shed load of books.

I estimate I will have read them all by 2031, by which time I will be incontinent and living in a residential home near Brean Sands.