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Science at work – Blue Fusion 2008
I’ve previously written about the annual Blue Fusion event that we run as part of National Science and Engineering Week at IBM’s Hursley Lab in the UK. It is one of the highlights of my year… I have...
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The Hursley blogging network
It is interesting that I’m usually identified as “an IBM Hursley person”, but officially I’m actually not – I’m a mobile worker with an office maildrop in London. It is true that I’m in Hursley as...
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IBM Hackday 5
I just uploaded a small set of images from the local Hackday event at IBM Hursley to Flickr. Feel free to add tags or notes if you took part.
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Current Cost
The buzz There’s a bit of a buzz going on at work at the moment – a bunch of us from “the Hursley crowd” have started playing with Current Cost meters. These devices are intended to enable consumers to...
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What’s up with MQ?
I haven’t blogged about my core work for a while, so it’s probably about time. This is a bit of a round-up of some of the things I’ve observed happening around in the MQ space lately. WebSphere MQ...
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Time to make a change
It’s time to move on. Maybe there’s something in the air, since Roo left recently, and Dale has just written about his switch to new things. A seven-year itch? Almost exactly seven years ago, I was...
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Office space
Although the new job officially starts next week, I now have a place to sit and I’m starting to get involved with activities for my new team. Kinda cool since I’ve not had a “regular” office for a...
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In the office
Taken by Aaron Kim in Hursley today, shared on Twitpic. Click through for the non-thumbnail version, since I apparently can’t display the full image from Twitpic here on my site. Features of note –...
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One photo, eight views
Although the iPhone camera is not the best by a long shot (although the recent addition of the Clarifi has helped, in the case of close-ups anyway), it is still possible to do some interesting things...
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Blue Fusion, the 2009 edition
One of the first Hursley-related things I wrote about here and on the eightbar blog back in 2006 was how much I enjoy helping with our annual schools event for National Science and Engineering Week in...
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The future of enterprise collaboration
I have just finished talking to a group of university students who were invited to IBM Hursley today. I had about 15 minutes to discuss Enterprise Collaboration, and I used the time to take a quick...
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WebSphere Message Broker for the win…
The very brilliant Martin Gale joined my team at work last week. I’ve known Martin for a few years now and we had a bit of a shared experience last year going through our professional certification at...
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WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Redbooks
One of the products I’ve been becoming increasingly involved with as part of my work at Hursley has been WebSphere Service Registry and Repository. Rather than redefine what the product is here, I’ll...
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MQTT: the Smarter Planet Protocol
I’m at the SHARE conference in Boston this week. Earlier today I gave a talk about one of IBM’s significant software announcements of this year: the forthcoming WebSphere MQ Telemetry feature....
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Message Broker goes Hyper with new updates
I’m excited. About a week ago we released the latest update to WebSphere Message Broker, version 7.0.0.2 (also known as fixpack 2 for version 7), as well as the new Hypervisor Edition of the product....
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Inside the Sphere
One of the things I’ve taken on this year is a regular writing assignment for the Global WebSphere Community. If you’re a member of the community (and if you use or are interested in WebSphere...
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Connectivity and Integration podcasts
As well as being WebSphere Messaging Community Lead out of IBM Hursley right now, I’m also part of what we refer to as our “Connectivity and Integration” organisation (middleware… plumbing… the hidden...
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Centennial
On June 16 2011, IBM is 100 years old – a little older if you include the companies that existed before the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (that was later renamed to International Business...
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WebSphere MQ 7.1 is out – here’s why it is cool…
I’ve been fairly quiet about the latest software from the Hursley lab here on my blog – although, over the past few weeks since the announcements back at the start of October during the European...
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WebSphere Message Broker version 8 is out!
Hot on the heels of the latest goodness in WebSphere MQ, it’s the turn of IBM’s Enterprise Service Bus – WebSphere Message Broker – to get a major new update. WMB v8.0 was announced back in early...
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