the green elk http://greenelk.co.uk/blog Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:04:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 twittergems website created http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=44 http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=44#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:04:01 +0000 Admin http://thegreenelk.wordpress.com/?p=44 Do you see a real gem of a tweet and would like to share it ? I’ve seen a few really good posts recently so I created a website, http://twittergems.wordpress.com, where I can post them for posterity.

If you know of a really good tweet just Send us a Twitter Gem and I’ll post it for you, along with your thoughts on why you like it so much.

]]> http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=44 0 revamped website http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=38 http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=38#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:48:00 +0000 Admin http://thegreenelk.wordpress.com/?p=38 after playing with Joomla! for several years I thought it time my website had a complete makeover.

Emlyn, a colleague from IBM, had a very minimal site with just social media links, so I chose to emulate it.

I’m quite pleased with the results.

My site is http://www.greenelk.co.uk/

]]> http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=38 0 Twitter interactions http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=33 http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=33#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:44:08 +0000 Admin http://thegreenelk.wordpress.com/?p=33 I’m just starting to use twitter a bit more but am surprised at the sort of discussions that happen on there. It’s as if people have forgotten that they are not having private conversations and all the dark recesses of there mind are open to public scrutiny. In this case I think he was completely indifferent to people’s view of him.

 

]]> http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=33 0 New IBM ILOG BRMS Facebook page http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=5 http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=5#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 11:51:32 +0000 Admin http://thegreenelk.wordpress.com/?p=1 I’ve just created a new Facebook page. It’s for IBM WebSphere ILOG BRMS.

The overview page says…

“Welcome to the page for IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS. This page is dedicated to the BRMS professionals who are working on or using the JRules. This page helps the users to discuss the queries and the resolution, Ideas, corrections, suggestions…etc… Add this page to your favorites and keep abreast of devlopments in IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules BRMS.

On this Facebook page, you’ll find several tabs..

  1. Wall – All BRMS developerWorks demos, developerWorks articles, technotes and IBM forums discussion threads are posted here, giving you a one-stop-shop for all key BRMS activities in the place you check most – Facebook.
  2. Overview – This tab
  3. Resources – Pointers to key resources on the web
  4. Links – Pointers to articles on the web
  5. Events – Keep in touch about conferences where ILOG BRMS is being presented
  6. Discusssions – A place to chat about BRMS related items with friends”

Hope you like it …

]]> http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?feed=rss2&p=5 0 Logging Activities in Ant with the Jazz Build Engine http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=9 http://greenelk.co.uk/blog/?p=9#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:27:28 +0000 Admin http://thegreenelk.wordpress.com/?p=9 If you want to use the same ant build.xml for both local building and Jazz building it can get
problematic if you want to record Jazz build activity, as you probably won’t have the
jazz build environment (and associated jars to support com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.StartBuildActivityTask) on your own machine.

Here are a few ant “internal” targets I’ve created to wrapper the logging in such a way that they can be used for both types of build.

<target name="logBuildActivity" depends="logJazzBuildActivity">
   <echo message="******************* Starting ${actId}" />
</target>

<target name="logJazzBuildActivity" if="buildResultUUID">
    <taskdef name="startBuildActivity" classname="com.ibm.team.build.ant.task.StartBuildActivityTask" />
    <startBuildActivity activityIdProperty="${actId}" label="${actId}"
        buildResultUUID="${buildResultUUID}" repositoryAddress="${repositoryAddress}"
        autocomplete="true" userId="${userId}" passwordFile="${passwordFile}" />
</target>

Notes:

* Use of autocomplete means that you don’t have to mark the end of the build activity
* buildResultUUID is only set as part of the Jazz build

So when you want to log an interim step in the build you simply write

<antcall target=”logBuildActivity”><param name=”actId” value=”Windows Packaging”/></antcall>

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