Memo and mindmapping

Reading books brings me into a lot of areas, at the moment my passion lies in the improvement of my abilities to remember and recall information and knowledge. I start by reading a really good and easy to read book which has the title memo, this book is wrote by a Norwegian guy who are able to remember really good by using route plans and visualization in the mind.
I think i need a good bit of training to be able to do this, but i have used it for remembering some list and some really important numbers.
And i think if i had to make a very important speak i would also use this technique to recall and remember the headline, for sure if i went back to school this would be the first book i would reread to improve my study skills.
But now i would like to also be able to refine my way of making notes, i think the combination of the memo and the mindmapping could be an excellent way of storing and remembering complex stuff.

Apache Quartz

It have been a while .. seen my last blog.. but better late than never.

I have the last couble of days been working with Quartz which has all in all been pleasant.
But a few comments.

• unschedule a job will remove it, if u dont remember to set durability on the job when its is created.
• Durable jobs should not been unscheduled use the the unschedule(jobdetail,trigger) method but the unschudule(trigger)

Hope this can helps someone.

WebSphere Portal RAD 7.0

I had today a lot of trouble getting my portlet project deployed into the the WebSphere Portal server.

The server was started the publish progress bar was at 100 %, then the deployment failed "could connect to WebSphere Application Server"

I have try doing a lot of differnent things.. but what that resolved my problem was to create a new workspace..

Hope this help other ..

Eat the frog

I have read some excellent book lately the first one was "eat the frog" .. the books is about been more productive by avoid postpone the "boring" tasks .. I have decided to let some of these advice come into my live..

Another book i'm about to read is the 8'the habit this is a very good book, the goal is to explain how to be a leader in business as well as you personal live. Some of the conclusions/advice in the book is very good but still om think the book maybe has a to wide a scope.

gPhone

At last Google announced there gPhone.. or its was not a phone anyway but a mobile infrastructure called Android.
I have looked at it and I think it look very promising, when that is said I think its a problem that Google create there own JVM instead of using existing ones.

But anyway I will take it for a spin, actually I have downloaded it on my Linux and installed the IDE part and created my first application yesterday.
My plan is to run through all the tutorials and try to make an interesting application.. that maybe can be a part of the Google contest..

WebSphere Portal action url

I been working today with creating action url from within WebSphere Portal using the excellent article from developerworks.

But i keept getting a classcast String exception when adding action parameter to my generated call.

The answer was that the provided map to the PortletAccessorController should contain item if type String and String[]

like this:
Hash map = new HashMap();
map.put("test",new String[] {"myTestItem"})

Hope this help someone outthere

Open social

I've just seen the presentation of the opensocial created by Google and the concept is really good. If you had asked me a month ago I would have thought that the FaceBook platform was the right approach for creating social apps.. but I think with Google and MySpace backing the OpenSocial.. FaceBook has to go that way .

I have played around with FaceBook and a Think it was nice but I still the value add of using a shared API for Social apps us an important point.

I hope to get some time trying out the opensocial.