Went along to see my UK colleague Andy Piper‘s presentation on "Using Social Software to Improve Your Effectiveness at Work". Andy’s an engaging speaker and his presentation was well thought out and put together. As a result I signed up for a twitter account but we’ll have to wait and see whether it gets much use let alone improving my effectiveness at work. It did also prompt me to revisit an internal file sharing tool which, having previously not realised that access could be restricted, I had discarded as much of the material I want to share is of a confidential nature.
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Thursday @ WSTC
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Wednesday @ WSTC
Thursday, May 8th, 2008The first slot of the day was one of those rare occasions where I wasn’t quite sure what to attend. In the end I opted for Alex Polozoff’s "Large Topology Tactics and Tradeoffs" presentation as I have great respect for his opinions. The emphasis here was not so much on the technology but the processes and the people. Most of it seemed common sense (at least to me) but the presentation should be a useful resource for anyone embarking on large scale WebSphere topologies.
Tuesday @ WSTC
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Woke every couple of hours in the night but otherwise didn’t sleep too badly and managed to stay in bed until a reasonable time. Perhaps just as well as I was re-presenting my WebSphere ESB pitch first thing. Thankfully I hadn’t been given quite such a large stage to stand on this time! Some good questions from the audience to keep me on my toes.
Return to Vegas
Monday, May 5th, 2008It’s that time of year when IBM’s WebSphere Services and Support organisation (plus a whole host of interlopers) descend on Las Vegas for our annual technical conference. As usual, I didn’t take up the opportunity of spending more time here than is absolutely necessary and flew out yesterday. Norway doesn’t have the luxury of direct flights so I flew Continental from Oslo to Newark and from there to Vegas. The first flight was probably only half full which was a nice luxury. Sadly, it arrived an hour early and the flight to Vegas departed over an hour late so I had over six hours to kill at Newark and didn’t arrive at the Rio in Vegas until about half eleven.
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Impact announcements
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008IBM’s “Smart SOA” conference is taking place in Vegas this week as a result of which there have been a number of announcements pertinent to the product set that I work with…
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Stealing warmth
Monday, April 7th, 2008As looking out the window doesn’t appear to be as reliable an indicator of the temperature here in Oslo as it is in the UK (probably just because there is a greater range and variation from day to day) I bought one of those all-singing all-dancing electronic weather stations last week. (OK – it wasn’t the super-duper model with rain gauge and anemometer but you have to draw the line somewhere.) I no longer need to experience that “oops I should have put more clothes on” feeling when I step out of the door.
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Web messaging lack of service
Monday, March 31st, 2008Last week I spent a not entirely constructive hour or two with a customer trying to get them started with the web messaging service. This is a component of the Feature Pack for Web 2.0 which provides a bridge between the default messaging provider’s publish/subscribe capabilities and an Ajax (Comet) client. The InfoCenter contains a great quick start guide but it was missing one vital piece of information.
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I’ve got the power
Monday, March 10th, 2008I picked up two new batteries for my Thinkpad this morning. The originals now barely last for an hour so it’s great to have over six hour’s battery life once again. If nothing else it means I won’t have to spend ages wandering around airports trying to find a seat somewhere in the vicinity of a power socket!
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