Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Interesting Post on WLP / Beehive Custom Events

I ran across this while working on tweaking some of my own flows. As luck would have it, I never got a chance to test it out, but wanted to keep a note on it just in case I run across it again:

Struggling BEA WLP fireCustomEvent in begin action

Saturday, December 19, 2009

SVN Subversive Plugin For WebLogic Workshop 10.2

The usual URL at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/0.7/update-site/ doesn't work for Workshop for some reason. This URL does: http://www.polarion.org/projects/subversive/download/1.1/update-site/

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Finally: An Answer To What I do

The most dreaded question for an IT professional is "What do you do"?

I've finally found the answer. I solve problems.

What kind problems? All kinds. The key piece is, my efficiency in solving a problem is directly proportional to how interesting I find the problem. It's true for all IT pros.

For an MIS guy, it's fascinating to find the best way to get file A to point B while keeping away hacker C.

For a Web Services guru, it's all about getting data from one place to another, and the further apart they are, the more interesting it is.

I have a lot of problems I find interesting, but the one I find most interesting is how to get user A to use system B and for system B to do something useful with system C while user A has no idea that there is a system C. It just happens.

That is what I do.