• Sat, Apr 23, 2016
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• Monitoring an UrbanCode linux server

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• categories: ibm
• tags: continuous-deployment urbancode-deploy urbancode

Monitoring here consists of three stock standard linux tools dstat, iostat, and pidstat I won’t even pretend that I know how to do this on Windows, but I imagine they have some equivalent, feel free to comment and educate me, but I don’t have the cycles to do the play around with Windows as well.

The dstat tool is a consolidated replacement for a few previous tools that did each task, so to simplify it is a good starting point to help us cover our system level monitoring, and pidstat. Let’s walk through some quick examples of each.

• Fri, May 18, 2012
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• Monitoring the performance of your IBM Jazz servers

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• categories: ibm
• tags: ibm jazz jazz-team-server rational

One helpful url for you to get a huge amount of data is the ICounterContentService service.

• Sat, May 19, 2012
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• Moving django data between vendors

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• categories: blog
• tags: database django migration postgresql python sqlite3

The out of the box tooling makes this pretty easy, just a few commands to get the data to a suitable serialized format, and one more to bring it into the new target. In order to prep for the new database, I created another db definition in my settings.py file…

• Thu, Jun 12, 2014
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• Part 1: Installing IBM Software using IBM Installation Manager Response Files

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• categories: ibm
• tags: software installation-manager ibm ibmim

Installing via the IBM Installation Manager is possible via the gui or the silently once you have recorded or crafted a silent install file, this post is specifically about how to create a silent install file and verify it is working.

• Mon, Dec 29, 2008
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• Part 2: Packaging with Packaging Utility

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• categories: ibm
• tags: software packaging-utility

IBM Packaging Utility is a helper to the IBM Installation Manager tool as it is used to manipulate Installation Manager Repositories. When creating installation media, the common use case is to include a bootstrapping version of Installation Manager and bundles Installation Manager Repositories to install from.

• Mon, Dec 13, 2010
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• People are crappy enough drivers in TN on a clear day nevermind when the roads are bad....

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• tags: awful-drivers nashville snow

Example of terrible driving in Nashville.

• Mon, Nov 18, 2013
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• Pillars of Agile Success Presentation for ACS

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• categories: presentations
• tags: acs agile agile-architecture automation collaboration

Pillars of Agile Success At the heard of successful agile development teams are highly skilled and highly motivated individuals working towards clear and common goals. In order for agile organizations to continuously deliver on their objectives, they need practices and tools to scale this beyond the team level