Author Archives: Roger Lacroix

My name is Roger Lacroix and I am a die hard programmer. I have been programming since the 80s. My favorite programming languages are Java, C and Rexx. I have worked in the Airline, Retail but I have spent most of my time doing middleware work in the financial services industry. In 1994, I was introduced to IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) and I thought it was the next best thing since man created fire. This blog will be about IBM MQ, Java, C, Rexx and any other interesting items that I can think of. I hope you enjoy it.

FreeBSD v9.0 Released

January 12, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has just released FreeBSD v9.0. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms. FreeBSD’s code base has undergone over thirty years of continuous development, improvement, and optimization. It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. FreeBSD provides advanced networking, impressive […]

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Watching a Directory and Sending Files with MQ File Mover (How To #5)

January 12, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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In this blog posting, I will show you how to configure MQ File Mover to watch a directory for new files and send the new files immediately. In this example, MQ File Mover will connect to the queue manager in “client mode”. In the MQ File Mover’s Watch Action, the user can specify all files […]

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NASA launches code.nasa.gov

January 11, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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NASA just launched code.nasa.gov to “continue, unify, and expand NASA’s open source activities.” You can browse NASA’s open source projects, the first 4 projects are now available: OpenMDAO – a Multidisciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization framework written in Python World Wind – a 3D interactive world viewer created by NASA’s Learning Technologies project Vision Workbench […]

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Free e-book from McGraw-Hill: Understanding Big Data

January 11, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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McGraw-Hill is giving away free copies of the e-book: Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/signup.do?source=sw-infomgt&S_PKG=500016891 Authored by IBM experts, Understanding Big Data will get you up to speed on big data technology, help you understand the big data opportunity, and provide criteria for choosing the right big data platform […]

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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science

January 9, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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If you need new reading material and/or want to stretch your mind then have a look at this site: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html Jeff Huang has a web page devoted to Best Paper Awards in Computer Science. The papers are categorized under the following topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Databases, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, […]

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WebSphere MQ v7.1 and MQAUSX

January 4, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware has begun testing MQAUSX with WebSphere MQ (WMQ) v7.1 and everything is working very well. There are 2 items that everyone needs to be aware of when using MQAUSX with WMQ v7.1. 1. WMQ v7.1 has a new feature called Channel Authentication Records. (A poor name as no authentication is actually taking place. IBM […]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

December 22, 2011 Roger Lacroix
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I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. 🙂 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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New: MQ Visual Edit v1.5.5

December 21, 2011 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Edit v1.5.5. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Edit. MQ Visual Edit allows users to view, manipulate and manage messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a […]

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New: MQ Visual Browse v1.5.5

December 21, 2011 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Visual Browse v1.5.5. This is a FREE upgrade for ALL licensed users of MQ Visual Browse. MQ Visual Browse allows users to view messages in a queue of a WebSphere MQ (formally MQSeries) queue manager and presents the data in a simplified format similar […]

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ProGuard v4.7 Released

December 21, 2011 Roger Lacroix
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Eric Lafortune has just released ProGuard v4.7. http://proguard.sourceforge.net/ ProGuard is a free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. It detects and removes unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It optimizes bytecode and removes unused instructions. It renames the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short meaningless names. Finally, it preverifies the processed code […]

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