Yesterday afternoon the Hursley Photo Club hit Winchester for a two hour photo challenge. I made the mistake of starting up at the Great Hall but quickly realised that it was far too dark inside to be shooting without a tripod. Unfortunately it was also pretty grey outside with the blue skies from the morning having clouded over. I wandered down towards the Cathedral where many of the others had congregated. There were some great shots to be had of the Light Division buglers having a fag break outside. Sadly, I wasn’t sufficiently bold to take them (or at least don’t have a sufficiently long lens!).
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Winchester Photo Challenge
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Faster upload
Friday, December 8th, 2006I eventually gave up on the 9 hour upload but, with a little help from Adrian, tracked the problem down to my use of sftp. Having switched to ftp the speed shot up five-hundred fold from 200KB/s to 10MB/s bringing the upload time down to just over 10 minutes! Over the IBM intranet I think I can cope with the lack of security for that much an increase in speed.
Performance, adapters and food
Thursday, November 16th, 2006Busy day today. Sweated off the remainder of the last night’s alcohol with a morning run. After grabbing a bite to eat (and having another interesting breakfast-time conversation with a colleague) I went to Luc Maquil’s presentation on WebSphere Process Server performance. Luc is one of the authors of the WebSphere Business Integration V6 Performance Tuning Redpaper and consequently knows a thing or two about the subject.
Sightseeing and SOAP
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Presentation and dinner
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Many of the presentations at the conference are repeats from our internal services conference earlier this year which means I have some spare time to catch up on other work. One session I did go to today was Eric Herness (Chief Architect for WebSphere Business Integration) presenting the new content in Version 6.0.2 of WebSphere Process Service and ESB. I think it’s safe to say this is a refresh pack with more than a few functional enhancements!
Conference begins
Monday, November 13th, 2006Arrived in Salzburg
Sunday, November 12th, 2006Joined a long line of IBMers at Gatwick earlier today taking the Thomson Fly direct flight to Salzburg bound for the WebSphere Technical Conference and WebSphere Transaction and Messaging Technical Conference. It made a nice change that there was nowhere for the senior management to upgrade to! I can’t help feeling that the CICS development area will be looking a little empty next week though.
As Chris predicted it was raining when we arrived but the steep-sided mountains, capped with snow, somehow looked all the more impressive with brooding clouds perched on top. Decided to leave the DSLR at home but hopefully I’ll get a chance to take a few snaps later in the week. I should be in for a relatively easy time as I just have two introductory presentations to give (twice each) although I’m on the hook for a third should it’s presenter not arrive in time tomorrow.
Hursley fireworks
Monday, November 6th, 2006Friday night was fireworks night at IBM Hursley. There was a good mix of new fireworks and old favourites and some nice long combinations. Having watched most of last year’s display through a viewfinder I was banned from taking a camera but Adrian has some good shots.
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