refreshing SSL certificates in websphere MQ

The first project I was given when I started at Evergreen Investments involved IBM’s WebSphere MQ messaging application. I took a development instance of the application and translated that to the requirements for a production deployment of the application. It has been completely bulletproof. Set up correctly and sized appropriately, it just works. Eventually all…

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stupid shell (and UNIX) tricks

I love using abobe photoshop C2’s automation – especially when resizing a series of images for the web. I would love to run linux entirely – but linux keeps falling short in graphics programs (yes, I use gimp – sorry, but Photoshop is better) and printer drivers – linux still can’t run my Canon Pixma…

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the engineer

I was searching for an image to put at the top of the page on this weblog – I searched for engineer. I figured I would find a triangle and a compass, something engineer-like – perhaps a slide rule… And I found… this. The engineer as superhero? Outstanding. I found this comic book at daraja.com…

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new design…

UPDATE 20181003 Wednesday… Genesis Framework and Child Themes from StudioPress. Extremely easy to customize, responsive design with beautiful mobile presentations. I get bored every 2 – 5 years and redesign and tweak. This makes that doable, without relearning everything from scratch.     This is very old… Like beginning of the internet old. -Ish, anyway….

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