Monthly Archives: June 2016

Big brother is watching (you buy underwear)

Edward Snowden raised the stakes of privacy in June 2013 when he released the scope of the internet and phone surveillance by American intelligence agencies.  We learned quite a bit about what types of data collections were being done. Phone records … Continue reading

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IBM Websphere MQ manipulations – part III

The curse of technology The cool thing about technology demos is how everything just works, well unless you are demoing it to the boss.  The equipment is usually quite new, the scope is simple enough and there are never any … Continue reading

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IBM Websphere MQ manipulations – part II

In my previous article IBM Websphere MQ manipulations – part I, I provided an example on how to put and get messages into the queue.  What we were doing was essentially performing a stateless transfer of information between systems.  The data … Continue reading

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IBM Websphere MQ manipulations – part I

Quite some years ago on a project that I was involved with, I was exposed to Websphere MQ.  Our needs were actually very basic to put it mildly.  We were using it as a secure method for transferring not messages … Continue reading

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command line fun – getting to the base of things

Just a short time back I received a mail from a colleague with an error message.  The question from him was about the error and more importantly was this my program.  I did find some code that generated the same … Continue reading

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