Easter egg in Verse on Premises

At Engage I met with Dan Dumont, from the Verse team in HCL, and he told me what is the Easter egg in VoP.

Open your mail, then in the search bar type “I am an easter egg” then press Ctrl+Alt+Enter

A reversed Verse logo will appear scrolling at the bottom of the screen

Now if you press the space bar, it will start shooting yellow spots across the screen, the goal is to hit the faces in the ITM bar at the top 🙂

Press Esc to stop.


High Usage Views and publishing statistics to New Relic. Bug in Domino 10.0.1

I found a bug, or better an incompatibility between two new features of Domino 10.

If you enable the High Usage Views feature, it will break the publishing of the statistics to New Relic.
Looking in the log you will find an error like this one

[16D4:0090-11B0] 26/03/2019 07:32:23,23 StatPubFlushPostData> Failed to POST metric data using URI: ‘http://platform-api.newrelic.com/platform/v1/metrics’; Unable to load specified URL.

I had confirmation from Support that this is a bug and it will be fixed in Domino 10.0.2

“Hello Roberto,
Greetings !
We have confirmed with our development team that Fix for this issue will be in 10.0.1 FP2. Hopefully Domino 10.0.1FP2 will be released in june.”



I will be speaking at the ISBG Meeting

The agenda for the ISBG Meeting that will happen in Stockholm on June 11 and 12 has been published here

I will speak about installing Domino on Docker. Hope to see many of you there!


Error ADMN0022E (Access is denied because of insufficient or empty credentials) when working with WAS ISC

I have a Connection environment installed for a customer and I have always started and stopped the servers using the ISC.

All of a sudden I could not do that anymore and got the ADMN0022E error in the SystemOut.log. I had to start and stop servers and nodeagent manually from the command line.

A quick check with my friend Andrea Fontana gave me the solution. For whatever reason the administrator credentials in the file soap.client.props, located in profiles/Dmgr01/properties were blank.

com.ibm.SOAP.loginUserid=
com.ibm.SOAP.loginPassword=

I filled in the correct values, synced the nodes and the problem was solved


Farewell Twitter and btw, fu*k off

The evening before the HCL Factory tour started I went out for dinner with some friends coming from abroad for the event. We went in a pizzeria and there I showed my friend Andreas Weinbrecht a thing on the menu

It says : Pineapple, is absolutely forbidden to consider it an ingredient for pizza.

After a few days Andrea tweeted that after three days of eating Italian he wanted an Hawaiian pizza and i replied “if you do that I will kill you”

After two days I received a mail from Twitter saying that my account was suspended because in one of my post I incited to violence.
Now….

I understand that the minions that are doing the censors on Twitter ( btw same applies to Facebook ) have an IQ between a demented monkey and a fruit fly but, my God, try at least to understand humor. Do you think is really possible that I menace to kill a person in public ? Do you see I am Italian ( you do know ) and understand that Hawaiian pizza is considered a joke here ? Try to understand the context before banning someone because it used the word “kill”.

Social media is, to quote Lady Gaga, “the toilet of the internet”, people use them to to post racial slurs, offend other people, disturb elections, incite to violence for real ( ISIS and Islamic terrorist post regularly ), and all you minions can do is extrapolate a single word from a post and suspend me ?

I am sorry for those who followed me, maybe they found my ramblings funny or interesting, and too bad for me that I will not be able to follow anymore my friends and miss some interesting news, but if these are the rules of the game, I will not play.

Farewell Twitter, is been good while it lasted but now you can fuck off.

Truly yours
RoB





IBM Champion for 2019 in ICS

Just before Christmas I received a great gift, a mail from IBM telling me I have been confirmed as a Champion for 2019

Being an IBM Champion is a great honor and privilege. It is a recognition of the work I have done and it means to be part of a fantastic group of people, very knowledgeable, top experts in their field, and always willing to help. I have learned a lot from other IBM Champions in those last years, and to have the chance to do so again is really great.

For those who do not know what an IBM Champion is, you can read it here

I would like to thank all the people who nominated me, and our IBM Champion wranglers, Libby Ingrassia and Alan Hamilton