Archive for July, 2006

Keep banging the rocks together guys

July 20, 2006

In a previous job (a Synon/Cool/Advantage/Allfusion/Whatever/2e shop) I had a conversation with our “technical” manager regarding my approach to developing an RPG application to send and receive Websphere MQ messages formatted in XML. Whatever/2e is rather good (if a little out of date) at some things but rather bad at others: interfacing with Webshere MQ [...]

Big brother

July 4, 2006

For a while now, Sam has been asking when he can have a little brother or sister. Yesterday Cathy and I were able to tell him – mid January. Cathy had her 12 week scan yesterday revealing a very wriggly little neveratosser with all the bits in the right place. Sam is delighted at the [...]