Little different feeling

We decided to put our son (Jai) in Childcare nearby home. Registration is done and he is gonna go there from 3rd Jan 2007. It was a nice feeling altogether the one my dad would have had when he put me in Lower Kinder Garten. In Singapore, we have 2 more optional levels before i put him in K1 or LKG.

First in Nursery1 or N1 which i have put my son in and after that N2. Look forward to see him in classes in the coming days, he has already started saying take him to school. I really hope he will enjoy the classes and hopefully i would facilitate with a learning environment at home too.

MS - Sharpoint Server 2007

I attended a 5 days training session on MOSS (Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007) in Avantus.
Originally it was intended only for MS tech guys in my company but i managed to get inside. The prime intention is to learn and some obviously draw some comparisons between my favorite LND and SP. I know i cannot compare LND with just SP cos SP requires many other things to get it work.

I will try to write this in detail later but the conclusion i had to draw is - if your infrastructure is Lotus already, i don't think its a good idea to use Sharepoint. If you are a MS shop yes you didn't had anything of this kind before and oh yes, you could move with additional M$.

In my opinion, if you are already LND shop and also use Quickplace, you are in the game already :)

Things i missed to cover - IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5 Demo

I gave a presentation recently to one of the prospective customer on IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5. That made me learn about Eclipse RCP and overall Eclipse. I am sort of new to Java world but it seems like i have to learn more in the near future. Lotus Sametime 7.5 is really a huge way forward based on Eclipse. The fact that it is very extensible and it can even inlcude your Workflow applications real time is amazing.

I have to become a Java guy to do all this, but i think i don't mind to become one :)

Things i missed to cover - LAUG 8th Meeting Dec 2006

This was our last session for this year and we had a little dull crowd as it was a festive season everywhere. We had a gentleman from AXS-ONE explaining about the compliance management of everything from Email to Digital Records management and the entire life cycle of the records management.

I had a detailed chat with Stephan Wissel who is now the "Lotus Technology & Productivity Advisor" from IBM Asean about the future of Domino Designer, Domino Server and Lotus Expeditor, Lotus Ventura. It was really an enlightening session for me and i get to know the happenings in IBM toward Lotus Notes and Domino. I was damn happy to hear all the great news and look forward to see everything in the year 2007.

Thank you very much Stephan for the wonderful session.

Things i missed to cover - PMI Training

We had a Project Management training in our company to get more people to become PMP certified professionals. One of the prerequisite to appear for PMP exams is to attend 35hrs of training which will earn you 35 Professional Development Units or PDU in PMP terminology. A gentleman from ProWiz by name Mr.Ravindran took the sessions for us, and i must say its no sleepy sessions.

He made the sessions very interesting by giving us many exercises to do as teams and individuals. The entire crowd was split in to 4 groups and challenged by questions from every topic.

The easiest of all is the Initiation stage and thereafter its was all very challenging. Planning, Execution, Quality and finally Completion. I loved almost all the sessions and i managed to get a passing score in the mock test provided on the last day :) I will definitely write the exam this year and i initially thought i cannot for more than 6 months to take the exam. I have already missed close to 3 months. Let see how it goes from here.

Things i missed to cover - IBM Lotus Quickplace Demo May 2006

One of the key resources was down with fever and i was asked to do Lotus Quickplace 7.0 presales demo for one of our prospective customers. I have worked QP3.5 before but haven't seen QP7.0 yet, the time line for the demo was just 4 days away and i just started doing QP setup in my Notebook.

I wanted to show my customer some POC with fair bit of customization, themes that matches the needs, with their corporate logos and some related corporate content i took from the Internet. I must say i really enjoyed working for that 4days. It was real fun and its was very simple and transparent for end users that they could create sites on their own in few minutes time.

The audience were really impressed when they saw some of the features and one particular feature they are very impressed is the mailing the content from your favorite mailing tool to the QP content site. You don't have to really login in the QP site to post the content, QP sites are associated with mail IDs and users can post the contents from the favorite mail tools.

Things i missed to cover - LCTY 2006

There are lots of things i missed to cover in the year 2006. May be i am very lazy to update every now and then when things happened or may be our culture also has got to do something in this. I cannot say that i am damn busy all the times that i don't have any spare time. There are definitely times, when i feel like blogging but just couldn't do it. So i take this opportunity to blog some of the things that i missed when it happened.

First of the things is the LCTY (Lotusphere comes to you) sessions in Singapore. In the month of March when the preparations was on for LCTY i went and had a discussion with my SM(Senior Management) about having an IT stall during the LCTY session. The obvious things are to get additional branding and additional projects :) In April, IBM Singapore also announced sponsors from partners to have their logo and names in the Singapore CABS (Taxis) for LCTY. We decided to do both and went for taxi sponsors and also put up a stall. We started seeing the cabs hitting the roads with IBM Lotus on it and IBM also covered some nice ads in Singapore Straits times. All this taxi ads were there for a month and lucky for me i could see one near my block car park itself. My son and i are in the picture.

On April 21, 2006 my team went early and set up the stall with Scandent Group flyers and a nice little presentation for stall visitors. I must say it was an eventful day, i met lots of people from various companies and did some boxing :) as it was the overall theme for LCTY.

Well, i look forward to this year LCTY and i am sure it is gonna be good as always.