Monday, February 22, 2010
Integration of Google Search Appliance & LANSA
We are experiencing amazing client results when we integrate the Google Search Appliance with our custom LANSA WAMS. We trigger searches from our LANSA code and integrate the results back to the LANSA WAM working lists. Below is a little video about some of the New GSA Features.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Installation of LANSA V12.0 - my personal experience
I've just finished installing the new LANSA V12.0 onto both a "Master" I-Series and a "Slave" Windows XP workstation as a fresh new LANSA install.
There are a number of improvements. Firstly, all of the numerous CD's of the LANSA software have now been combined into one single DVD disk... Nice... Secondly, the installation DVD comes with a much newer, nicer, and improved Visual C++ engine wrapper.... So just working with the new software and documentation is much improved.
However, the largest changes and improvements ( that I have run into thus far... and I am still exploring ... ) are in the VL IDE workstation installer upgrades...
As most of you know, LANSA V12.0 is where LANSA introduces the change from running on the older Sybase SQL Anywhere SQL platform to running on the newer Microsoft SQLServer 2008 Express SQL database platform. That alone is a major change ( Make sure you follow the documentation on this on upgrades...)...
The installer, however, has a whole new look and feel and some improved dialogs too to go along with the new SQL database platform. You can relax though as many of the dialog questions remain the same as before... although there are some changes too...
The installation process ran very smoothly.... I did have to go through one "normal" reboot, but the installer just picked right back up again without so much as a single touch...
Starting the VL IDE for the first time caused the Partition Initialization to kick off and this set of dialogs has been changed into a nice neat little checklist.... so you can actually tell exactly where you are at, what is done, and what is left to do...
My first start of the VL IDE crashed, so I was a little disappointed at first... I called LANSA Support and they were very fast to respond... There was a small registry path error that me and my "fat fingers" had apparently introduced while answering all of the new dialogs... Once we had that ironed out, then the VL IDE came right up and ran like a champ... So, I'm chalking that one up to me and my "fat fingers"...
All in all - aside from my "fat fingers" episodes - the new LANSA V12.0 installation ran very smoothly and seems to include a lot of nice improvements...
I'm going to be back to exploring LANSA V12.0 next and then maybe try a little LANSA install upgrade action later on once I get a little more comfortable...
Meanwhile, I would definitely recommend that everyone give the New LANSA V12.0 a try...
There are a number of improvements. Firstly, all of the numerous CD's of the LANSA software have now been combined into one single DVD disk... Nice... Secondly, the installation DVD comes with a much newer, nicer, and improved Visual C++ engine wrapper.... So just working with the new software and documentation is much improved.
However, the largest changes and improvements ( that I have run into thus far... and I am still exploring ... ) are in the VL IDE workstation installer upgrades...
As most of you know, LANSA V12.0 is where LANSA introduces the change from running on the older Sybase SQL Anywhere SQL platform to running on the newer Microsoft SQLServer 2008 Express SQL database platform. That alone is a major change ( Make sure you follow the documentation on this on upgrades...)...
The installer, however, has a whole new look and feel and some improved dialogs too to go along with the new SQL database platform. You can relax though as many of the dialog questions remain the same as before... although there are some changes too...
The installation process ran very smoothly.... I did have to go through one "normal" reboot, but the installer just picked right back up again without so much as a single touch...
Starting the VL IDE for the first time caused the Partition Initialization to kick off and this set of dialogs has been changed into a nice neat little checklist.... so you can actually tell exactly where you are at, what is done, and what is left to do...
My first start of the VL IDE crashed, so I was a little disappointed at first... I called LANSA Support and they were very fast to respond... There was a small registry path error that me and my "fat fingers" had apparently introduced while answering all of the new dialogs... Once we had that ironed out, then the VL IDE came right up and ran like a champ... So, I'm chalking that one up to me and my "fat fingers"...
All in all - aside from my "fat fingers" episodes - the new LANSA V12.0 installation ran very smoothly and seems to include a lot of nice improvements...
I'm going to be back to exploring LANSA V12.0 next and then maybe try a little LANSA install upgrade action later on once I get a little more comfortable...
Meanwhile, I would definitely recommend that everyone give the New LANSA V12.0 a try...
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Eclipse or Studio Plugin for LANSA
Allow me to ask everyone this question? Is it time for LANSA to provide a plugin for Eclipse or Microsoft Studio? (Maybe both!) Perhaps this might trigger some conversation at the Summit.
Friday, February 12, 2010
LANSA 2010 Solution Summit
Looks like the folks from LANSA are going to provide a teas of things to come.
Preview the LANSA Solution Summit at a Sneak Peek Webinar!
Thursday, February 19 - 1:00 p.m. ET
Register for the "Sneak Peek Webinar" by contacting Sherry Barnvos at 630.874.7071 or sherryb@lansa.com.
Friday, February 05, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Are you still using IE 6.0?
If you are still using IE 6.0, you should take note of a notification from Google. It might have an impact on your users.
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.
Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.
Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.
In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.
Thank you for your continued support!
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