Monthly Archives: April 2013

Video Game that Teaches Kids How to Program in Java

April 12, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Computer scientists at UC San Diego have developed a first-person video game designed to teach young students Java programming. In CodeSpells, a wizard must help a land of gnomes by writing spells in Java: http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1347 What a great idea!! Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Exits and WMQ installed in a non-default location

April 11, 2013 Roger Lacroix

I have been testing Capitalware products (various exits) on different platforms with WebSphere MQ v7.1 & v7.5 and life was going along very well. I had a customer (who uses our security exit) just contacted me saying that they have a Linux server with 3 different releases of MQ installed (v7.0.1.9, v7.1.0.0 and v7.5.0.1) where […]

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Security and the Development Process

April 11, 2013 Roger Lacroix

From the article: Developers aren’t security experts, and most security experts aren’t developers. That’s so true. John Jacott has posted an arcticle at Venture Beat that every developer and security expert should read: http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/06/developer-first-security/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Ten Web Sites that teach Coding

April 11, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Cale Guthrie Weissman at PandoDaily has put together a list of web sites that teach coding: http://pandodaily.com/2013/04/05/ten-websites-that-teach-coding-and-a-bunch-of-other-things/ Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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MQTC v2.0.1.3 Gold Sponsor: Cressida Technology

April 9, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce that Cressida Technology is a Gold Sponsor of MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.3 (MQTC). Cressida Technology will also host a session for an MQSeries.net Get Together at MQTC For more information, please go to: http://www.mqtechconference.com Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Capitalware’s MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.3

April 8, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Capitalware would like to announce a new 3-day MQ Technical Conference v2.0.1.3 (MQTC). MQTC is an event that will educate attendees on current practices, methodologies, administration, problem determination, security best practices and technology trends for IBM’s WebSphere MQ. MQTC will offer over 40 sessions that are designed to enhance the skills of IT professionals who […]

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Big news coming Monday!!

April 5, 2013 Roger Lacroix

On Monday, a BIG message will flow to everyone’s queue. 🙂 Make my day and guess. 🙂 No, its not a new product. No, its not a new open source product either. Its not a customer announcement either. Go ahead – take a guess! Hint: I have a big month, so I’m going to put […]

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Capitalware’s Twitter Account

April 4, 2013 Roger Lacroix

I have created a Twitter account for Capitalware. If you would like to follow Capitalware then here is a link to our account: https://twitter.com/Capitalware Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Multi-threaded version of amqscnxc

April 3, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Tim Zielke has updated amqscnxc to support multi-threaded on Linux. You can find the updated version of amqscnxc here: https://www.capitalware.com/mq_code_c.html Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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Mozilla Firefox 20.0 Released

April 2, 2013 Roger Lacroix

Mozilla Firefox has just released Mozilla Firefox v20.0. http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine, which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to […]

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