April 1, 2011
Yesterday I ran into a familiar SSL problem. I learned that a Sun engineer named Andreas Sterbenz had written a handy utility to solve the problem, and posted it on his Sun blog. I looked to see what else he had posted. The last entry mentioned that he had jumped ship to Google, and pointed [...]
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July 10, 2009
This week saw the 40th anniversary of IBM CICS, the Customer Information Control System. It had 7 releases before being re-engineered as CICS TS (Transaction Server); CICS TS has just seen the release of version 4.1. I’m going to take a guess that they don’t use agile software development methods in the CICS department at [...]
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July 17, 2008
IBM is one of the more forward-thinking companies when it comes to equality of opportunity and lack of discrimination.
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