Author Archives: Roger Lacroix

My name is Roger Lacroix and I am a die hard programmer. I have been programming since the 80s. My favorite programming languages are Java, C and Rexx. I have worked in the airline, retail but I have spent most of my time doing middleware work in the financial services industry. In 1994, I was introduced to IBM MQ (aka WebSphere MQ & MQSeries) and I thought it was the next best thing since man created fire. This blog will be about IBM MQ, Java, C, Rexx and any other interesting items that I can think of. I hope you enjoy it.

Fedora 18 Released

January 15, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Fedora Project Contributors has just released Fedora v18. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/index.html Fedora is a Linux-based operating system, a suite of software that makes your computer run. You can use the Fedora operating system to replace or to run alongside of other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X. The Fedora operating system is 100% […]

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Middleware Messaging FUD

January 14, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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I was reading various articles today and I stumbled upon this article: AMQP: The new king of middleware messaging at SD Times. When I first read it, I started laughing so hard because I thought it was a joke. Then I realized it was not some sort of time-warped joke but rather just straight FUD […]

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New: MQ Message Encryption v2.0.0

January 10, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Capitalware Inc. would like to announce the official release of MQ Message Encryption v2.0.0. MQ Message Encryption (MQME) provides encryption for MQ message data while it resides in a queue and in the MQ logs (i.e. all data at rest). In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information into an unreadable form (encrypted data). […]

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Football Divisional Playoff Games

January 10, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Small Sliding scale picks for divisional playoff games (least probable to most probable): Fibonacci Sliding scale picks for divisional playoff games (least probable to most probable): So what does it mean? U1 means that underdog team will beat the spread with the lowest probability of success (don’t bet on it). F4 means the favorite team […]

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Rogers internet was broken on Wednesday

January 10, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Once again Rogers Communication totally screws its paying customers. Yahoo article: Rogers Internet back online after outage. Around 6:40PM on Wednesday, I started getting errors in FireFox and Eudora (email client) around domain name resolution. Usually, resetting the cable modem box fixes the issue but not last night. I checked the internet on my iPhone […]

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Football Wild Card Playoff Games

January 5, 2013 Roger Lacroix
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Small Sliding scale picks for wild card playoff games (least probable to most probable): Fibonacci Sliding scale picks for wild card playoff games (least probable to most probable): So what does it mean? F1 means the favorite team will cover the spread with the lowest probability of success (don’t bet on it). U4 means that […]

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End-To-End Encryption with Universal File Mover (How To #4)

December 28, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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In the Universal File Mover (UFM) How To #2 blog posting, UFM ran in “client mode” when it connected to the queue managers. In this blog posting, I will show how to implement a simple file transfer using End-To-End encryption when connecting to the queue manager in “client mode”. UFM’s MQSend Action uses Advanced Encryption […]

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Football Week # 17

December 27, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Well, week # 16 was a great week. Small Sliding scale picks were 11-5 and Fibonacci Sliding scale picks were 11-5. Small Sliding scale picks for week #17 (least probable to most probable): Fibonacci Sliding scale picks for week #17 (least probable to most probable): Enjoy. 🙂 As they say in the stock market, past […]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

December 24, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. 🙂 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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GSS Chat Starter Edition v1.0.0 Released

December 20, 2012 Roger Lacroix
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Grail Software Solutions has just released GSS Chat Starter Edition v1.0.0 (aka SupportPac MA99). http://www.grailsoftwaresolutions.co.uk/chatse.html GSS Chat Starter Edition is a set of Eclipse features which can be used to enable real-time conversations between the administrator and end-users of applications and systems using an IBM WebSphere MQ. Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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