Friday, October 26, 2007

Leopard - No Java 6

So, I went, stood in line, got T-Shirt and checked out the latest and greatest OS X - Leopard at the Providence Apple store.
Ran a terminal and typed java -version.
Sad, but true, it returned version 1.5.
The java in OS X is officially still at 5, and no idea when apple will release Java 6. Btw, leopard looks way cool and pretty fast just like Tiger.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

More to Awesomeness!!!!!!!

Came across http://www.goowy.com accidentally during a Google search and I was totally taken in!! This is an "on-line desktop", your own personal computer over the internet. They call it a "Web Top".
The user interface is so cool that it can compete with any modern desktop environments. The beauty is that you have all your apps - mail, calendar, chat, widgets of interest available on an online deskop no matter where or from what you are accessing it. Here is a screenshot from Firefox.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

This can not be considered as a blog. But however, I wanted to record this somewhere so that it gets picked up by search engines and provides a useful clue to a developer struggling with setting up IBM DB2 CLI (TYPE 2) JDBC XA Connection pool.
Scenario:
Setting up an XA Connection pool with "COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.DB2XADataSource"
Database server on remote host. You have IBM DB2 client installed.

Exception:
DB2 DSRA8100E: Unable to get a XAConnection from the DataSource
Root Exception:
[IBM][CLI Driver] SQL1032N No start database manager command was issued. SQLSTATE=57019

If you got this error, got to your command prompt and issue "DB2START" command.
This is a hidden action associated with CLI drivers to work. Hm!