Collaboration Stack Community Agenda and Stuff

So the first Collaboration Stack Community Event Agenda is out, my slot in it has be nailed down, it is already half full and I’m getting over excited again!

Why you ask is Stickfight getting over excited about something that is not caffeine or alcohol.

Because this is the first “more than IBM” conference that I have been to that I have been anything more than just an attendee also I’m going to LEARN stuff as it does not use the normal “Sit there an listen to people talk” format.

This new format gives everyone a far better chance of telling people about the cool stuff they know about, with the best fringe benifit that as its in central London there will be tons of opportunities to have a quiet chat with people about stuff we can do together over a pint or two 🙂

If you want to hear me Rant, I will be getting my 10 mins in the fine company of Mark Barton and Steven Chapman at 2.15 – 2.45 speaking on Web Development Technologies.

Ah yes, you need to register as well at Event Brite

New Anime Series: No-Rin

First Episode(s) Review for: No-Rin
Summary:

A lad at a country farm school dreams of going to Toykyo and becoming a trendy farmer which is really just an excuse to send vegetables to the Idol that he is besotted with, when this Idol retires he is devastated, but then she turns up at his school as a transfer student….what could her reason be??

Animation:

Completely standard Anime animation, better than western but nothing to see here, moving on

Plot Potential:

This I feel will not be a plot strong Anime, but that’s OK, its lots of fun to watch

Music:

Lovely Idol Pop tunes with jolly opening and closing themes

Reminds me of:

Yakitate!! Japan and an “Popular person falls for everyday Joe” anime something like Maid Sama

Overall:

A genuinely funny Anime, the first one this season to make me laugh out loud, not one of the great plot series but treat it as a sitcom and you will be in for a good time

 

 

 

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

New Anime Series: Noragmi

First Episode(s) Review for: Noragmi
Summary:

A young down on his luck homeless God or as he calls himself “A delivery God” is struggling his way though life, till he is saved from a passing bus by a young girl, the incident gives the girl the ability to leave her body, something she wants fixed, enter the world of street level small gods and their regalia

Animation:

Good high detail animation the kind I associated with high action anime (I wonder if they get slowed down a lot and replayed one frame at a time), very nice and clear with excellent use of colour such as pastels at emotional times and mono chrome on the opening sequence

Plot Potential:

I have a week spot of any story to do with gods but this has tons of potential but currently no direction so I think it MIGHT be a great series, as long as the opportunity it has is not wasted.

Music:

Hooray the first MP3 player worthy opening theme this season, the rest of the music in this series is a bit ho-hum

Reminds me of:

bit of Yozakura Quartet bit of XxxHolic

Overall:

So its basically the life of a street gang but in the supernatural world, good stuff, the characters are nothing new, but its still very much worth watching especially if the plot lives up to its potential.

 

 

 

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!

Backing Up Websphere Config

As a connections developer you will be fiddling with you local Websphere configuration, and down that road madness lays, so before you touch anything the make the whole thing go BANG! (and quite frankly that can be anything, you need to know how to backup and restore the config.

To do this first go to the bin directory of your deployment manager, in my test server’s case that is (yours will most likely be very similar except for it being on “E”)

E:IBMWebSphereAppServerprofilesDmgr01bin>

and just enter “backupconfig” giving the location of a new zip file you want created for everything to be stored in and wait for the stream of little dots to finish,

backupconfig e:preLDAPchange.zip

On a web sphere server with a ‘medium’ Connections installation on it, This will give you a Zip file of about 775Meg so make sure you have the space (on a side note go have a look inside the zip it’s fascinating, like some sort of config abattoir)
hopefully you wont want it but say your change broke everything and you need to put it all back as it was, you run the ‘restoreconfig’ comand, as follows using the Zip file you created

restoreconfig e:preLDAPchange.zip

Again, just wait for it to be done, and things should start working again.
Of course its all fully documented on the IBM website if you know to look [Here](http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.websphere.express.doc%2Finfo%2Fexp%2Fae%2Frxml_restoreconfig.html) And [Here](http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.websphere.express.doc%2Finfo%2Fexp%2Fae%2Frxml_restoreconfig.html)
_NOTE: I’m not a proper Web Sphere admin, If you want proper Web Sphere and Connections admin you want [the Turtle Partnership](http://www.turtleweb.com/)_

New Anime Series: Nobunagun

First Episode(s) Review for: Nobunagun
Summary:

Violent dreams haunt a somewhat forgetful and easy goring girl, she is a bit of a flake but bumbles though life happily enough, that is until aliens arrive at a field trip, and she turns out to have the memories of a great Japanese military commander and the giant cannons to match.

Animation:

A mix of open and cheerful for the human areas and dark and brooding the the dream sequences, A very nice touch is the use of coloured shadows to show a persons type i.e. normal girls get flowers in their shadows while the heroine gets camouflage colours

Plot Potential:

This depends, it could be as a simple power ranger series or as serious a samurai drama, hard to tell at this point as there is a mix of smiling bouncy bits and people with swords thought their bellies

Music:

Alt Rock though out, fairly generic stuff but good beats

Reminds me of:

Time travel between Neon Genesis Evangelion and Samurai Gun with a chunk of the plot of Gate Keepers

Overall:

I am pleasantly surprised with this Anime it feels like it should be a jolly little jokey super powered team Anime, but it is far darker in execution, a real dark horse of the season, well worth watching.

 

 

 

Disclaimer: These are mini reviews of anime’s that are fresh out in Japan and are not licensed in the UK, buy them once they have been licensed or at the very least buy the merchandise, remember if the anime makers make a loss, THEY WILL STOP MAKING ANIME!!