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Awards season, and good causes
Awards, part one I’ve been asked to present an award at the Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2010 which IBM is supporting this evening in central London. I speak regularly about my experience of using...
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A Smarter Planet needs lightweight messaging
One of the primary things I’ve been working on this year has been IBM’s new WebSphere MQ Telemetry product. I say “new”, of course, but the underlying technologies – WebSphere MQ itself, and the MQTT...
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In five years’ time we could be walking round the zoo…
A cryptic title (although a fairly easy lyric to identify) to note that five years ago I started blogging “seriously” outside of the corporate firewall… although I’d had a couple of little online...
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Message Broker goes Hyper with new updates
I’m excited. About a week ago we released the latest update to WebSphere Message Broker, version 7.0.0.2 (also known as fixpack 2 for version 7), as well as the new Hypervisor Edition of the product....
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Corporate blogging and “being social”
Back in November I spoke at the Coventry and Warwickshire Social Media Cafe. The organisers have now posted a short write-up of the talk, along with a video (embedded below) of a short conversation we...
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I’m an IBMer
When I see a piece like this it reminds me why I love doing what I do. Technology can take us forward and help to improve the human condition, and I’m part of an organisation that has been helping to...
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Inside the Sphere
One of the things I’ve taken on this year is a regular writing assignment for the Global WebSphere Community. If you’re a member of the community (and if you use or are interested in WebSphere...
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A very social week in London
Last week[1] was Social Media Week, a global event with presentations, seminars, open days and other sessions run in cities around the world. I got back from LinuxConf Australia just in time to take...
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Connectivity and Integration podcasts
As well as being WebSphere Messaging Community Lead out of IBM Hursley right now, I’m also part of what we refer to as our “Connectivity and Integration” organisation (middleware… plumbing… the hidden...
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Several weeks ago – in Lotus
A very quick, and very belated, post to note that I was one of the guests on the episode of the This Week in Lotus podcast recorded March 18th 2011 (episode 43, for those keeping count). A good fun,...
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IMPACT 2011 – and the Unconference
This week is the last before I hop on a plane a head over to The Venetian in Las Vegas for this year’s IBM IMPACT conference. I’ve been privileged to attend the last few of these customer and user...
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Photo post: IBM IMPACT 2011
I didn’t have a “proper” camera with me at IMPACT this year, but I did snap a bunch of images using my iPhone – they were either tweeted via yfrog, or through Instagram. Don’t expect the most awesome...
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Centennial
On June 16 2011, IBM is 100 years old – a little older if you include the companies that existed before the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (that was later renamed to International Business...
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Make Connections
Make Connections Originally uploaded by andyp uk A couple of weeks ago I was asked to run some elective “breakout” sessions at an IBM Global Services event in London. The venue was a great place near...
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Being social at work – for six years and more
I just posted to IBM’s internal blogging network, a short post to record my six-year anniversary as a user of the platform. I won’t share the exact content as it mostly had a load of internal links...
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Does the term “reverse mentoring” devalue the mentor?
mentoring present participle of men·tor Verb: To advise or train (someone). If there’s one thing social technologies can teach us, I believe it is this: hierarchies are so 20th Century. I came across...
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WebSphere doodle
WebSphere doodle Originally uploaded by andyp uk Some random doodling I did on the Nintendo 3DS a little while ago. Yes, I have little artistic talent. Tagged: Doodle, drawing, IBM, IBM WebSphere
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WebSphere MQ and Ubuntu (and other developer resources)
For some time now, I’ve been using Ubuntu as my desktop operating system. Although I’m yet to be convinced by Unity (it’s getting there, the more I learn the shortcuts and stick with it), I do know...
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Virtual Worlds and Technology Futures
Last week I was privileged to be invited to give the closing keynote at an event called ReLIVE 11 (Research and Learning in Virtual Environments) at the Open University. This was certainly a big deal...
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European WebSphere Technical Conference 2011
Although I realise that it seems as though I do little other than spin around “the conference circuit” at the moment what with the various events I’ve blogged about lately, that isn’t entirely true!...
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MQTT goes free – a personal Q&A
There has been a lot of coverage over the past couple of days of some exciting announcements that I’ve been involved with at work. I’ve spent the past three days at EclipseCon Europe 2011, which...
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WebSphere MQ 7.1 is out – here’s why it is cool…
I’ve been fairly quiet about the latest software from the Hursley lab here on my blog – although, over the past few weeks since the announcements back at the start of October during the European...
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WebSphere Message Broker version 8 is out!
Hot on the heels of the latest goodness in WebSphere MQ, it’s the turn of IBM’s Enterprise Service Bus – WebSphere Message Broker – to get a major new update. WMB v8.0 was announced back in early...
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Reflections on IBM
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about the company I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life with – IBM. A few months ago I wrote about the company’s centennial. As an historian this has...
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When “end of an era” doesn’t cover it
This week, I tendered my resignation at IBM, after 10 years and 4 months, to a manager who has been my team leader and friend for the past 3 years. I can honestly say that it was a really hard moment;...
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