skywayradio.com

Technics

1. About this site
2. developerWorks
3. Certifications
4. WebSphere World
5. WebSphere Journal
6. Redbooks
7. PMRs
8. Partnerworld

Portal

1. Portal v6.1
2. Portal v6.0
3. Enterprise scale
4. Best Practices
5. Portal v5.1
6. WCM best practices

WebSphere

1. WAS ND v7.0
2. WAS v6.1
3. WAS v6.1 and AIX
4. WAS v6.1 Infocenter
5. WAS v6.1 HA
6. WAS v6.1 tuning
7. WAS v6.1 administration
8. WAS v6.0
9. WebSphere MQ
10. WAS v5.1
11. WebSphere XD v6.1
12. WebSphere XD v6.0
13. i5/OS
14. iSeries
15. Usenet

UNIX and Web

1. Linux
2. sed
3. tcpdump
4. lsof
5. SSH reverse tunnels
6. awk
7. rsync
8. Scripts
9. CGI
10. ebooks
11. PHP
12. HTML
13. Apache 2.0
14. Samba
15. DNS
16. Multicast
17. snort
18. security
19. Lucene

1. Saberriffic
2. 112211,1120
3. Many Left Uncounted in Nation's Official Jobless Rate
4. Minus the photographer's standard annoying flash interface!
5. He-man! He-man! I am He-man!
6. Wasn't Han Solo a Correllian Chancellor?
7. Rubik cubes and classic album covers by the Beatles and the Clash.
8. Joint oil ventures with attitiude
9. The Squares of the City
10. Sarah Palin to resign
11. Hurricane Chris
12. Emirates Flight attendants
13. Violating Terms of Services and Cyberbullying
14. Rest Stops, R.I.P.
15. Storytelling in sand.
16. Mass webcam choreography

1. Palin resignation leaves questions on 2012 run
2. SKorea says NKorea fires 7 missiles off east coast
3. 2 US troops die in attack on base in Afghanistan
4. Powerful sedative found in Michael Jackson's home
5. Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent
6. SC serial killer conjures memory of 60s murderer
7. Michelle Obama bringing glamor to Moscow
8. Group Sotomayor advised fought job tests
9. The old is new again at Saturday Evening Post
10. Dodgers' Ramirez hitless in return from suspension
11. Palin resigning as Alaska governor in surprise move
12. North Korea defies U.S. with new missile launches
13. Putin rejects Obama criticism before meeting
14. Many Iranians unconvinced about poll result - cleric
15. Suicide bomber attacks foreign base in Afghan east
16. OAS set to suspend Honduras as it renounces charter
17. U.S. drone kills 10 in Pakistan, copter crash kills 26
18. Medici lawyer says Kohn didn't get Madoff payments
19. N.Korea fires seventh missile: S.Korea
20. Myanmar junta blocks UN chief from meeting Suu Kyi

The World

1. Reddit
2. The ServerSide
3. Slashdot
4. NY Times
5. Star-Tribune
6. Bloomberg
7. James Wolcott
8. Alex at Gawker
9. DeadSpin
10. The Register
11. NY Review of Books
12. MNSPEAK.com
13. City of Lakes
14. Yahoo! Actualites
15. Netherlands
16. New Scientist
17. Smithsonian
18. The Guardian

Media

1. Developerworks
2. WebSphere
3. Hulu
4. MSNBC
5. CNN
6. Joost
7. Veoh
8. Netflix
9. TidalTV
10. Book TV
11. Book Notes
12. MIT World
13. Democracy Now!
14. C-SPAN
15. NOW
16. Frontline
17. Yahoo News
18. Google
19. YouTube

Music and Talk

1. 770 Radio K
2. KEXP Seattle Archive
3. Last.fm
4. Air America
5. Princeton
6. WMBR Cambridge
7. WFMU NYC
8. KZSU Stanford
9. KGNU Boulder
10. KPFA
11. KDHX
12. BBC Radio 1

Hi

Welcome to skywayradio.com. My name is Michael Pareene and this is my personal site.

I do middleware infrastructure and development work, these days mostly in the WebSphere domain. Here is my resume. If you would like to engage my services, send an email inquiry to michael.pareene@gmail.com

This site is independently owned and not affiliated, supported by, or endorsed by IBM.

For copyright reasons, I am no longer able to offer some sections of the site to the public. Sorry.

This site..

1. Uses scripts to automatically add hyperlinks for all key words and phrases.
2. Strips out redundant tags, so pages are lean and load fast.
3. Places, in context, supplemental material from my own and other people's experiences.
4. Adds white space and makes fonts scalable.
5. Strips out out useless verbiage. For example, removing every occurrence of the word "easy".
6. Dozens of other more or less idiosyncratic tweaks.

The data center as invisible metropolis

Informative long-form article on modern data centers from the author of How we drive.

Want to generate heap dumps?

Don't forget to set your JVM options...

-Xdump:java+heap+system+snap:events=user

...before running your kill -3 pid.

Install Firefox theme from command-line

cd Firefox installation directory
./firefox -install-global-theme /path/to/theme

More useful Firefox add-ons

Tired of filling out forms? Get the Formfiller add-on.

wsadmin one-liner scripts

WebSphere Application Server one-liner scripts. Userful for the stoopid (like me).

Must to have Firefox add-ons

Acquire the Firebug and the Web Developer add-ons to debug client issues...

Contracting work

Have not actually tried it, but odesk.com looks like an interesting place to quickly find programmers to work on your project...

Syndication and jcr:uuid

When importing content or component items into your Web Content Management system, either though xmlaccess, or custom scripts that employ the WCM API, pay attention to how jcr:uuids are created. If, for example, the content you are importing is referenced by existing components, you need ensure that referential integrity is maintained.

JCR Explorer and XPath

Been running a lot of XPath queries in JCR explorer these days, trying to fix some syndication issues.

For example, getting error...

Could not save item with id DepRef(id:121212121 type: com.aptrix.pluto.site.SiteArea nonDraft:true draft:false purged:false parentId:919191919 timeStamp:123 stateUpdate: false versions:null moved: false) because it could not find its parent.

...means parent uuid on subscriber does not match parent uuid on syndicator. To verity, in JCR Explorer, run the following queries on both systems...

//element(*, ibmcontentwcm:siteArea)[@jcr:uuid = '121212121']
//element(*, ibmcontentwcm:siteArea)[@jcr:uuid = '919191919']

You will undoubtedly find both uuids on syndicator, but not subscriber. This will be the case even if site areas show as existing on both machines from within the authoring portlet on the subscriber.

One way to fix...

1. Delete site area child and parent on subscriber
2. Edit site area on syndicator and then save, to give item a fresh time stamp.
3. Re-syndicate

Personalized portlet

One key thing to note about personalization in WebSphere Portal v6.1 is that for Web Content Management items you can implement most functionality using the Personalization component mapped to rules. You don't need to use Rational Application Developer personalization features to create personalized content. RAD comes into the picture if you want to personalize non-WCM content. For WCM content, you probably do not need to fire up RAD.

Secure Gmail

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
3. Set 'Browser Connection' to 'Always use https.'
4. Click Save Changes.
5. Reload Gmail.

Augustus Ceaser

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesers, Augustus Caeser project management tips...

Hasten slowly

...and...

That is done fast enough, which is done well enough.

Web page testing tool

You can use the WBox HTTP testing tool to stress test servers and apps...

% wbox http://localhost clients 4
WBOX localhost (127.0.0.1) port 80
0. 200 OK    9939 bytes    14 ms
0. 200 OK    9939 bytes    22 ms
...

...or obtain splitted timing information...

% wbox digg.com timesplit 1
WBOX digg.com (64.191.203.30) port 80
0. 200 OK    44134 bytes    1326 ms 
       [0] 0-4095 -> 728 ms
       [1] 4096-8191 -> 254 ms
       [2] 8192-12287 -> 16 ms
       [3] 12288-16383 -> 17 ms

Signal vs. Noise

Scientific research conducted by Walker Reading Technologies, a small Minnesota startup that has been studying our ability to read for the last ten years, has concluded that the natural field of focus for our eyes is circular, so our eyes view the printed page as if we are peering through a straw.

Here is an example...

This site believes in a lot of white space and blockquotes too. Might have to expand formatting even more...

Using Mainsoft's Visual MainWin, .NET developers can deploy ASP.NET applications as pure JSR 168 portlets.

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