Archive for 2009

Gen:2009 a year in review

Just like last year’s post around this time (2008 Gen:2008 – a year in review), I’m looking back to each month and highlighting a single post from that month to see how the Gen world has progressed in 2009

Jan Gen – 1st Impressions
Feb Gen APIs
Mar Gen-o-sphere
Apr New whitepaper from ARIKAN – code restructuring
May Wouldn’t it be good if…
Jun UK & Ireland CA Gen Users Day Review
Jul Ease of use
Aug APG gets the seal of approval from CA
Sep New German-speaking Gen user group
Oct CA Application Development Newsletter from CA
Nov Unbelievable – 50,000!
Dec Maybe I’ll raise a DAR!

I wonder what 2010 will bring – certainly with the release of r8 and CAWorld 2010, it should be an exciting 12 months !

Leaving the NoughtIEs behind…

… is the strapline of the December edition of SpotlIEt – the IET newsletter – go grab it to see what they’ve been up to this year….

Maybe I’ll raise a DAR!

I have been looking at Transaction Enabler lately (unix environment) and know that you can control the user funnel and asynchronous daemon at startup by using a bunch of parameters – this is good simply becausae the funnel/daemon infrastructure can be tuned to your installation – memory, load modules, etc…

But what you can’t do (apparently) is stop the asynch daemon and user funnel by sending it some sort of signal – you have to use the unix “kill” command which (in my opinion) is a little scrappy.

Does anyone else feel that this might warrant and enhancement request ?

What you should be able to do is (after starting the UF, for example), be able to use a control tool to send it a signal to close down – either with or without flushing currently in flight transactions.

Maybe I’ll think about it over Christmans and raise a DAR anyway  – but I’d be interested to see what others think.

Youtube Feedback

In this post, I asked readers if it would be a good idea to follow QAT’s example and put some Gen-related content on YouTube.

All the votes I had stated “Yes” – they’d like some Gen-related content on YouTube. So – early in the new year I’ll put something up (not sure what yet !) to “continue the ball rolling” – I can’t say I started the ball rolling, since QAT already did that !

In the meantime, here‘s an interesting video that might be of interest on the CAInc Channel on Automation, Virtualization and Cloud Computing.

CA World 2010

I signed up for the CA World 2010 newsletter a while ago, so I could keep abreast of the goings-on, and get genned up on the event.

I had the first email newsletter today – I’m not going to expose the content, but suffice to say it is good, solid information.

I’d urge you all to sign up for the newletter, at www.caworld.com , also, follow CAWorld2010 on Twitter here: