Archive for the Category: Programming

Head, Apply Wall To It Several Times!

October 6, 2015 Roger Lacroix

If you don’t like that title, how about “How to out smart yourself and shoot yourself in the foot, all at the same time!” or “No smart deed goes unpunished!”. In the summer of 2014, I decided to clean up up some compiler warning messages that certain compilers (HP-UX cc comes to mind) were complaining […]

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A Better MD Class than IBM’s MQMD Class

August 14, 2015 Roger Lacroix

This is a follow up to my blog posting last week titled: Java MQMD class Weirdness. After beating my head against the wall, I gave up on the ‘com.ibm.mq.headers.MQMD’ class and went back to my own MD (Message Descriptor) class. At least I know it works. 🙂 The reason I originally created my MD class […]

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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi

August 11, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Today, Microsoft announced the public release of Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi 2 and the MinnowBoard Max. Microsoft also announced a “build a home automation solution that leverages the power of Windows 10 IoT Core running on Raspberry Pi 2” contest. For more information, go here. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Oracle CSO Rant to ‘Sinner’ Customers

August 11, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, Oracle’s chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson posted a rant about customers who reverse engineer Oracle products then send Oracle information on security vulnerabilities in Oracle products. She wants customers to “stop sending vulnerability reports already” because she wants “to go back to writing murder mysteries”. I’m not kidding, the Oracle CSO wrote that. […]

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Java MQMD class Weirdness

August 5, 2015 Roger Lacroix

I’m trying to use the MQMD class in a Java application and I’m getting weird results. I tested it with both MQ JAR files from v7.5.0.2 and v8.0.0.2 with JVM of v1.7.0. Note: All of my testing was done in ‘client mode’ (not bindings mode). The first odd thing is that MQMD class is in […]

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SQLite v3.8.11 Released

July 27, 2015 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.11. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Configuring Eclipse to develop Java/JMS programs for MQ 8.0

June 30, 2015 Roger Lacroix

IBM has published a tutorial on how to configure Eclipse for developing Java/JMS programs for MQ 8.0: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27046013 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Apple to Open Source Swift

June 8, 2015 Roger Lacroix

Today at WWDC 2015, Apple announced that it will open source its Swift language: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=29 http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/apple-open-sources-swift/ And the best part of the announcement, is that Linux will be supported. As SNL’s church lady would say “Well, isn’t that SPE-CIAL?”. 🙂 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Perl 5.22.0 Released

June 2, 2015 Roger Lacroix

The Perl developers have just released Perl v5.22.0. http://www.perl.org/get.html Perl is a high-level programming language with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands. It derives from the ubiquitous C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and […]

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SQLite v3.8.10 Released

May 8, 2015 Roger Lacroix

D. Richard Hipp has just released SQLite v3.8.10. http://www.sqlite.org/news.html SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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