tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137485612024-03-13T16:04:43.981-03:00Alex Hernandez's WeblogJust Another Blog In The WebAlex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1147355930823725162006-05-11T09:58:00.000-04:002006-07-28T11:58:34.086-04:00a Brand new sitework in progress, server RIP.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1145282863364025292006-04-17T10:07:00.000-04:002006-04-17T10:07:43.423-04:00Time goes by....... and there's nothing I can do about it.<br /><br />I'm just trying to become wiser than yesterday.<br /><br />I'm 36 years old.<br /><br />.::AleX::.<br />
<br />Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1144090825464827862006-04-03T15:00:00.000-04:002006-04-04T12:45:11.870-04:00Happy Birthday Cristobal<img style="margin: 5px;" alt="Cristobal's Birthday" src="http://static.flickr.com/37/122742260_b6b92ff979.jpg?v=0" title="Cristobal's Birthday" align="right" height="254" width="203" />Happy Birthday Cristobal!<br /><br />Cristobal is 2 years old since saturday April 1st. We had a little party, only with the closer friends.<br /><br />We had a good time! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexhernandez/">Check it out!</a>Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1143049781735040392006-03-22T13:49:00.000-04:002006-03-22T13:49:41.740-04:00The born of a commercial starwhy you didn't tell us <a href="http://www.bruceelgort.com">Bruce</a>?<br /><br /><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4527776308225007432"><img height="188" border="0" style="margin:5px;" width="303" alt="Novell" title="Novell" src="http://static.flickr.com/40/116415551_6f4e355c60.jpg?v=0" /></a>
<br />Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1143037290940361592006-03-22T10:21:00.000-04:002006-03-22T13:24:54.060-04:00Domino Security RedbookThe <a href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247256.html">Security Considerations in Notes and Domino 7: Making Great Security Easier to Implement</a> redbooks has been released. Check it out!<br /><br /><br /><br /><small>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Redbook">Redbook</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Domino">Domino</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Security">Security</a></small>
<br />Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1142962622296374982006-03-21T13:37:00.000-04:002006-03-21T13:38:01.053-04:00This nick...<blockquote>A problem, presented correctly, is a problem, practically solved.</blockquote><br /><br />... appeared today in on of my MSN contacts.<br /><br />:oP<br /><br /><br /><small>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/MSN">MSN</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/problem">problem</a></small>Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1142957296928215842006-03-21T12:08:00.000-04:002006-03-21T12:08:16.963-04:00AJAX/400When doing development you will frequently found that there's a lot of backend systems that store the real data that is used when implementing a business process into a business application. The biggest companies has the very unbreakable mainframe running OS/390 or whatever, or any UNIX flavor, or if working with IBM customers, an <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">AS/400</span>, <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">iSeries</span>, i5 system.<br />The tendencies when moving into the IBM branding are exposing the legacy applications to web applications (and lately as web services). Most of the time this integration is by using Host Access Transformation Services from Websphere, or Websphere portal or any other application server that interfaces the data stored in those systems. All in the Domino over i5 is a killer mix. The data stored into the i5 can be easily integrated with any Domino application by using LC or even DECS which can be a very useful partner when dealing with web applications that need to store data in the i5.<br /><br />One amazing thing is that you can use Domino agents (or servlets if you want) to retrieve the data from the system and throw the results as XML, HTML, plaint text or whatever. This is crucial when trying to create new applications or enhance application with stuff like AJAX, for example.<br /><br />The <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">AS/400</span>, oops again, i5 customers are resigned to use those ugly green screens that even when using transformation tools remain in the same way of old fashioned application. So, if you pretend to increase the user experience in your web applications and you don't what to spend a lot of money, just expand your AJAX skills and integrate Domino in the middle. You'll be providing high performance applications that only take a snap to retrieve information from a system that is famous by slowing down the user experience. You'll be a rock start after that.<br /><br /><br /><br /><small>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/AJAX">AJAX</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Domino">Domino</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/AS%2F400">AS/400</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/i5">i5</a></small>
<br />Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1142875432490008252006-03-20T13:23:00.000-04:002006-03-20T13:23:52.506-04:00Try it if you can<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1108353726933300599"><img height="238" border="0" width="320" style="margin:5px;" alt="Basketball" src="http://static.flickr.com/51/115359866_4150ac5f5c.jpg?v=0" title="Basketball" /></a>
<br />Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1142872505440074922006-03-20T12:35:00.000-04:002006-03-20T15:05:28.466-04:00Firefox 2.0 Alpha released<img height="99" style="margin:5px;" width="99" alt="Firefox" title="Firefox" src="http://static.flickr.com/47/115340298_8909ddfe3e.jpg?v=0" align="right" />Firefox 2.0 Alpha has been published. I'll play with it later. Will update any result.<br /><br />Download <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/pacifica-mozilla1.8/firefox-2.0a1.en-US.win32.zip">Firefox 2.0 Alpha</a><br /><br /><strong>Update</strong>: I've Installed it and it works fine (still don't crash) but one sad thing (as expected) is that all the plugins doesn't work :-(. But well, is a Alpha release I can't complain.<br /><br /><br /><small>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Firefox">Firefox</a></small>
<br />Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1142636429383933032006-03-17T19:00:00.000-04:002006-03-17T19:02:50.530-04:00Microsoft iPodCheck what would happen if Microsoft redesign the iPod.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0&search=microsoft%20ipod" target="_blank"><img height="301" style="margin:5px;" width="388" alt="iPod Box" title="iPod Box" src="http://static.flickr.com/54/113888042_7f5f739a02.jpg?v=0" /></a>Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1141139489033002572006-02-28T11:31:00.000-03:002006-02-28T12:11:29.046-03:00IBM goes for the Open Source ISVs market<a href="http://www.zimbra.com/">Zimbra </a>and <a href="http://www.scalix.com/">Scalix </a>both have been exposing their powerful features a lot and catching some attention and promising the collaboration heaven for companies that want to save some money on mail and basic collaboration. Both have commercial products and offer a community edition version that is an Open Source version with some restrictions in the features and functionality.<br /><br />With that philosophy in mind, sounds weird hearing that IBM is doing the same for some of their products: <a href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/community/">Websphere Application Server Community Edition</a> and <a href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/udb/db2express/download.html">DB2 UDB Express-C.</a><br /><br />You can download and use those products for free and optionally buy support from IBM. This is very useful for ISVs that need to deploy applications that need just a web container plus some other features and a SQL Database. Those ISVs that are actually creating applications using LAMP or WAMP are the main target, taking IBM a step further into the Open Source arena. How good will it go? Let's see.<br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1141063061186141362006-02-27T14:52:00.000-03:002006-02-27T17:43:38.306-03:00Dominoblogs.comHey, looks like the new <a href="http://www.dominoblogs.com">Domino bloggers</a> directory is taking shape. I've just signed up.<br /><br />Interesting that I'm the only one blogging from south america.<br /><br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1140791497695898652006-02-24T11:18:00.000-03:002006-02-24T15:32:33.850-03:00Back to the deskWow! 3 weeks in a row. I think that was in 2000 the last time that I took the whole vacations.<br /><br />On the following years after that date, I used to take from 1 week to 2 weeks only, and spending some time, alone here in Santiago, while the whole family is enjoying the south of Chile for a couple of weeks.<br /><br />This time we went to some green places in the globe near to Temuco, my hometown. We did, Temuco, Conguilio, Temuco, Lican Ray, Temuco, Pichilemu, Santiago. 3 awesome weeks with the kids and some relatives (we went to Conguillio with my sister in law and family).<br /><br />Foor those that have Google Earth here are the *.kmz files.<br /><br />The bad of the vacations is tha stupidly I have lost the digicam and can't find it :-(.<br /><br />Anyways I preferred to start blogging this "labor" year with an entry that reminds me that vacations are waiting for me again at the end of the tunnel.<br /><br />See you soon!<br /><br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1138228913142250742006-01-25T19:20:00.000-03:002006-01-25T19:51:33.053-03:00@SantiagoYes, no SWU 4th post. <span style="font-size:100%;">Had a problem with the hotel so I had to move to the Venetian (:-D) . The change was good but I didn't had time to post from there.<br /><br />The last tracks I attended were awesome:<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Designing SOA Solutions: was piloted by the SOA guru </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=490">Dr. Ali Arsanjani</a>, the session was incredible. It was a sort of interactive class were we were sitting in round tables instead of the tipical, "classroom" style, and with a lot of people that knows a lot of SOA. I definitvely learned a lot.</span></li></ul><br /><ul><li>The last track I took was Ed Brill's lecture about how to beat Microsoft and it's crappy Exchange stuff.</li><li style="list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside;"><br /></li><li style="list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside;">Way cool presentation from Robert Bry, (another Lotus hero), simulating being a MS excutive trying to convince me why Exchange and all the MS Application Army, can help me to be more productive. Even introducing this revolutionary concept.. errr.. how was the name?.... oh yes! Awareness!.<br /></li><li style="list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside;"><br /></li><li style="list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside;">After that Ed deconstruct all the MS arguments agains Notes and give us the key concepts to fight the Bill Gates's golden pot.<br /></li></ul>Thanks to you guys, today I had to sell Notes against Exchange and is very easy putting all the things clear on the table when you know exactly how your competition works. Know your enemy (if RATM says so...) then we could win.<br /><br />And as not everything is about work. <a href="http://84.244.7.244/venise05/mac_en.htm">I dislike this a lot.</a><br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1137725844637897782006-01-19T23:56:00.000-03:002006-01-20T00:00:32.136-03:00IBM Software University Day 3One of the latest IBM acquisitions was Pure edge, now known as Workplace Forms. Today I attended a Hands-on lab that teach us the basics on how to build some amazingly perfect forms to be used with any data repository, as DB2 Content Manager or Lotus Domino.<br /><br />It has an incredible Designer Client that is used to "paint" the screen with the imported form (can be imported from images, PDF, Word, etc) and is "pixel-perfect" in terms on how it position any element of the form to be completely accurate with the original paper form.<br /><br />One of the main uses that this will have is for regulatory compliance, were, formats of forms are mandatory in the way they look, but with the advantages of the electronic forms, providing security, background logic and integration with the existing systems.<br /><br />In my opinion, a great gem in the IBM e-business strategy.<br /><br />Check for tomorrow news.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1137640679974523992006-01-19T00:03:00.000-03:002006-01-19T00:17:59.990-03:00IBM Software University Day 2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6716/238/1600/vegas2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 228px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6716/238/320/vegas2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>oof! I'm really tired, distances are killing me but I've been having a really good time here at Las Vegas. Today I went to various sessions but the most interesting one was a Lab were I Installed almost all the IBM Middleware in a Linux environment.<br /><br />The lab consisted on installing Websphere 6.0, DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition 8.2, Websphere MQSeries 6.0 and Websphere Message Broker 6.0 in a Linux operating system to simulate an integration scenario. The lab was incredibly useful and didactic, the speakers really know what they were talking about and was very impressive to see all that good middleware running smooth and without pains.<br /><br />Check for more tomorrow.<br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1137456964584566412006-01-16T21:16:00.000-03:002006-01-16T21:27:40.530-03:00IBM Software University Day 1<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6716/238/1600/vegas1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 191px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6716/238/320/vegas1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>After a night walk under a freezing wind Gastón (a friend of mine from Chile who is attending too) went out to dinner and took some pics of the main attractions here in Las Vegas.<br /><br />Today is the official first day and the opening Meeting at the MGM Hotel was very cool, Mr Mills encourage to every one to have a winner attitude in this year and sent a direct message to Microsoft to be scared about they role in the SW market. After all, this event is to leverage everyone's knowledge of the IBM middleware software, to obtain more information about products, sales strategies by industry or by product. Tonigth I'm attending to the Developers meeting and reception and tomorrow starts the tracks that we'll be attending. I'm scheduled to be in the Ed Brill's lecture about how to beat Microsoft in the messaging and collaboration arena on friday.<br /><br />I'll keep up updated<br /><a href="http://alexhernandez.blogspot.com/"></a>Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1137289914386187442006-01-14T22:45:00.000-03:002006-01-14T22:54:01.583-03:00Arriving Las VegasHey, after a long tired flight Santiago-Dallas-Las Vegas I've arrived to my <a href="http://www.mirage.com/hotel/hotel_guestrooms.aspx">Mirage Hotel room </a>and I've enjoyed the benefits of arriving one day early. Registration for the Software University was fast, I've checked all the locations and now I have maps, directions and signs for all the sessions.<br /><br />Keep an eye on this blog if you can and I'll try to upload some pics as well.<br /><br />See you soon!<br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1137175759907436072006-01-13T14:49:00.001-03:002006-01-13T15:13:19.416-03:00Notes in your languageUna nueva traducción de <a href="http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf?Open">Alan Lepofsky</a>: Navigating Your Notes Calendar - Part 3, con su versión en español <a href="http://notestips.blogspot.com/2006/01/navegando-en-el-calendario-notes-parte.html">Navegando en el calendario Notes - Parte II</a>.<br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1137100435531987562006-01-12T13:10:00.000-03:002006-01-12T18:14:22.210-03:00Back to the Blogs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://www014.temporary.ibm.com/SU2006/images/Small_SoftwareUniversityGraphic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 141px;" src="https://www014.temporary.ibm.com/SU2006/images/Small_SoftwareUniversityGraphic.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Tomorrow I'll flight to Las Vegas, Nevada, to take part of the IBM Software University. This event is a unique opportunity for us, the Business Partners and Distributors to get the first source of "what's coming" no the software business for this 2006.<br /><br />Personally, I will take a big percentage of SOA related tracks, since my objective for this year is to certify my self on Websphere Business Modeler (besides my pending update certification from Notes/Domino 6.5 to release 7).<br /><br />SOA is becoming the hot topic of the year on terms of business integration, and the IBM offer is one of the most comprehensive, complete and right targeted solution in the market today. It covers from the design, analysis and modeling of processes, development, web services integration, process server and monitoring.<br /><br />I'll be blogging about the tracks I'm participating. If some of you guys still remember this busy chilean guy, stay tuned.<br /><br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1128358163896159222005-10-03T12:43:00.000-04:002005-10-03T12:49:23.906-04:00Spare time comingFinally I will enjoy of some spare time to develop some ideas and projects that I have in my mind.<br /><br />First, I will do some more translations from <a href="http://www.alanlepofsky.com/">Alan Lepofsky</a>, that I've have abandoned due to this over-work, and in second place I will start to write a sort of AJAX library for Domino.<br /><br />In fact I have some approaches on how to use Ajax with Domino development and I'm amazed on how fast you can build applications.<br /><br />I will post more in the following days on were is the best approach, how to facilitate the Domino development by using an Ajax library, etc.<br /><br />Of course I will post to get some feedback and ideas from the people that works with Domino.<br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1126108987142641222005-09-07T11:55:00.000-04:002005-09-07T12:03:07.150-04:00I want one of this!<a href="http://atomchip.com/">Atom Chip Corporation</a> has announced <a href="http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page4.html">this laptop</a> that promises to the solution for all of us that work with IBM software.<br /><br />With these specs (6.8GHz Processor, 1TB Memory, 1TB Disk Space) for sure that I could run, Websphere Business Integrator Server Foundation, Websphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, Websphere Business Integration Modeler, DB2 UDB Workgroup Edition, Workplace Collaborative Services, Workplace Designer, Lotus Domino (several flavors) and Lotus Notes (all Clients) all in the same machine with no memory restrictions, a lot of space to store a bunch of MP3 to hear music while working.<br /><br />Oof!<br /><br />definitively I want one of this.<br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1125417565848527082005-08-30T11:55:00.000-04:002005-08-30T11:59:25.853-04:00A new kid on the blockVia <a href="http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/notesdomino-7-released">Ed Brill</a> (again) Domino/Notes 7 has been released.<br /><br />I think that this is one of the hottest releases since R4.6. We are preparing a sort of migration pack for all our customers.<br /><br />Here we go...<br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1125066346215711322005-08-26T09:44:00.000-04:002005-08-26T10:25:46.223-04:00Workplace Designer is hereVia <a href="http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm-workplace-designer-has-shipped">Ed Brill.</a><br /><br />IBM Workplace Designer 2.5 has been released. Some weeks ago I took a look at the tool and it seems that it will speed the way the Domino developers makes the transition from the smooth, soft, nice, limited but known Domino Designer to the hard, rigid, confusing J2EE world.<br /><br />As I <a href="http://alexhernandez.blogspot.com/2005/06/next-release-hangover.html">mentioned before</a>, one of the issues is the "weight" of the tool. I still have Domino, and Designer installed in an old Pentium III with 128MB Ram at home and it works as good as in my Thinkpad R40 Pentium M with 1.2 GB of Ram. Do you need to change your machine? No problem! Just backup your data directory, take care of your notes.ini and voila!. Things become hard to maintain with Workplace.<br /><br />At least, one of the things that I found <a href="http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=19755">in the news</a> is that there's plans to include AJAX support in the next releases of Workplace Designer.<br /><br />Anyways and after all the cry out for the complexity added to the concept of developing applications in the easy Domino style, but integrated into Workplace, I think that the evolution is good, and we should be prepared to live the future. Right here.<br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13748561.post-1124827610228947422005-08-23T15:55:00.000-04:002005-08-23T16:06:50.233-04:00What?I always try to be very moderated when reacting to the news that fly over the internet.<br /><br />Working in an IBM software world I've learnt a lot about the great features that each product has and presenting charts with incredible numbers on sales and growth forecasts.<br /><br />Articles like <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/08/23/lotus-microsoft-email-cz_dl_0823lotus.html">this one</a> makes me think. How can the same research company can have such differents results? I know that may be I'm being innocent and I'm not considering that sometimes those companies are hired to conduct a research on the company performance or directly comparing with the competition.<br /><br />Anyways, the article is interesting if I would selling Microsoft, but as I am not, I'm worry. I hope <a href="http://www.edbrill.com/">Ed </a>could give us some light.<br /><br /><br />.::AleX::.Alex Hernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09866397732161061239noreply@blogger.com2