19 June 2008
Rational Project and Portfolio Management e-kit
by BlueVoodooAs a member of the Project Management Institute’s corporate council, IBM has more than 12,000 certified project managers and has been honored for its educational programs. Now, you can learn more about the difference that IBM's project management curriculum makes with six free courses based on IBM's best-practices processes and tools.
17 June 2008
IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox
by BlueVoodooThe IBM Enterprise Modernization sandbox for the IBM i environment is designed to help you quickly evaluate our latest products for modernizing and deploying core IBM i applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment that lets you evaluate multiple products without downloading and installing them.
16 June 2008
Concepts of WPARs and configuring DB2
by BlueVoodooWPAR (Workload Partition) is a licensed program product shipped with IBM AIX 610. Tthis article teaches WPAR concepts and configurations. By following the examples in this article, you will be able to install and configure DB2 on a system and application WPAR.
13 June 2008
Live Application Mobility in AIX 6.1
by BlueVoodooLive Application Mobility is an important component of workload partitioning and provides for increased availability for workload partitions (WPARs). Simply put, it allows you to move WPARs from one logical partition (LPAR) to another while the WPARs are up and running. This article explores how and when to use Live Application Mobility and how to configure a system and its applications to run it.
12 June 2008
Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise and Developer Ed V11.5
by BlueVoodooInformix Dynamic Server offers outstanding online transaction processing (OLTP) database performance, while helping to simplify and automate many of the tasks associated with deploying databases for medium to enterprise business applications.
dtach
by websdtach is a tiny program that emulates the detach feature of screen, allowing you to run a program in an environment that is protected from the controlling terminal and attach to it later. dtach does not keep track of the contents of the screen, and thus works best with programs that know how to redraw themselves.
10 June 2008
Speaking UNIX: It’s all about the inode
by BlueVoodooHave you ever wondered what Iused and %Iused mean in UNIX commands like df or what people are talking about when the say inode? UNIX and Linux systems both use inodes, and IBM AIX is no different. Discover what an inode is and why inodes are important to UNIX, the structure of an inode, and commands for working with inodes.
06 June 2008
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
by nhoizey & 1 otherAn in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting
05 June 2008
Download the Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise v11.5
by BlueVoodooUse IBM Informix Dynamic Server Developer Edition for applications development and prototyping. Developer Edition is available free of charge, for development use only, with no time limits, and no support.
Practical threaded programming with Python
by BlueVoodooThreaded programming in Python can be done with a minimal amount of complexity by combining threads with Queues. This article explores using threads and queues together to create simple yet effective patterns for solving problems that require concurrency.
04 June 2008
Make an Admin’s job easier with HACMP/XD-PPRC
by BlueVoodooHACMP/XD uses PPRC mirroring technology to provide disaster recovery for critical applications' data. This involves collecting configuration data from the storage as well as from the cluster nodes; at times this can be tedious. This article shows you how, using pprc4hacmp, configuration data is generated automatically for HACMP/XD-PPRC.
02 June 2008
Kerberos and AIX v6
by BlueVoodooLearn to make use of the Kerberos authentication tickets in the day-to-day network services on IBM AIX V6 and discover how Kerberos can be useful in getting rid of the password hassles for network service logons. This is another method towards achieving single sign on (SSO) on an AIX system network.
30 May 2008
IBM Web 2.0 Developer Kit
by BlueVoodooOrganizations want to take advantage of open, flexible Web 2.0 technologies. They want to use social software and mash-ups to add a new dimension of imagination and innovation. IBM's Web 2.0 solutions are already helping businesses apply Web 2.0 technologies across the globe to gain a competitive advantage.
Learn 10 more good UNIX usage habits
by BlueVoodooAs a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up!
29 May 2008
10 time-saving techniques in Eclipse Europa
by BlueVoodooThis tutorial shows how to be more productive with Eclipse Europa, providing 10 ways to speed up your development in Eclipse. Many of the features shown for productivity are either new or improved features introduced in Eclipse Europa.
27 May 2008
Tips on designing a preprocessor for C++ with Antlr
by BlueVoodooLearn how to use Antlr to create a C++ preprocessor. Using this approach to create the C++ compiler, you don't need a separate preprocessor engine. Instead, the preprocessor engine can be integrated as part of the lexer.
What is wxPython?
by Emaux & 1 otherwxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a Python extension module (native code) that wraps the popular wxWidgets cross platform GUI library, which is written in C .
Like Python and wxWidgets, wxPython is Open Source which means that it is free for anyone to use and the source code is available for anyone to look at and modify. Or anyone can contribute fixes or enhancements to the project.
wxPython is a cross-platform toolkit. This means that the same program will run on multiple platforms without modification. Currently supported platforms are 32-bit Microsoft Windows, most Unix or unix-like systems, and Macintosh OS X
22 May 2008
Configuring Infiniband for AIX
by BlueVoodooInfiniband is an interconnect technology that breaks through the bandwidth and fanout limitations of PCI bus by switching from traditional shared bus architecture to a switched fabric architecture. This article explains how to use RDS (Reliable Datagram Sockets), a protocol (similar to UDP) designed to work over Infiniband to send and receive data using sockets.
15 May 2008
13 May 2008
Getting Started with awk
by srtThis qref is written for a semi-knowledgable UNIX user who has just come up against a problem and has been advised to use awk to solve it. Perhaps one of the examples can be quickly modified for immediate use.
Shared library memory footprints on AIX 5L
by BlueVoodooLearn about shared library mechanisms and memory footprints on IBM AIX. This article is essential for developers writing server code or administrators managing production AIX systems. It offers developers and administrators commands and techniques, and gives the understanding necessary to analyze memory requirements of server processes on AIX.