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.

The Famous Deal - IBM and MS

A bit of history this time. When i was Googling about IBM and MS i found some interesting articles/deals. One of the article is about the famous deal between IBM and MS and how MS became a multi billion dollar company from nothing. Its definitely worth reading.

After completion, you will contemplate whether Bill Gates really a Genius or anyone can become so!!!

So the moral of the story is :
Sometimes, its not what you know that matters, its who you know really matters? Taken from one of the Singapore taxi drivers business card, who also happened to be a Letter writer for accidents etc.

Updated the last 2 lines on 19th Nov 2006.

LAUG 7th Meeting

The 7th LAUG meeting at IBM City centre today went pretty good. A Team (Mitsuru and Mike) from TeamStudio came all the way from Japan to give a presentation on some of their flagship products. Though i have seen some of their presentations through WebEx demos before (courtesy Benjamin Green - TeamStudio) today i managed to see it live. Almost all the tools are quite cool and some of them are a must in the Notes/Domino environment (CIAO - Check In And Out) is one among them.

Nowadays, we hear a lot of people saying their Notes environment is out of control. The reason is simple. Because Notes is a Rapid Development environment we tend to keep building applications and one fine day hundreds of applications sitting in the app server with the least amount of document possible. I have seen in many places, hundreds of design elements with many duplicate copies of the application/design elements with no version control at all. So, then it becomes tedious for anybody to maintain and people start saying Lotus Notes in not good.

But the fact is we didn't put any control in the first place. Had we put proper controls, source code controls etc etc. we would not have messed up this much. That's where TeamStudio products can help. For all other platforms there are tools available for team of developers to manage the versions of the application and if any problem a way to roll back to previous code and so on. Unfortunately they are not available for Notes environment. Products/Tools like Team Studio CIAO, Analyzer and Delta will help in bridging the gap and take the Notes environment a long way.

Visit teamstudio.com for more details

Made up my mind

Today, i finally made up my mind to use this blog much more than i have been doing so far. I am willing to cover all that has happened in the past with the present in my posts. But how am i going to differentiate this two? At the moment i am planning to include the month and date(if possible) in the title of the entry.

The reason am doing this is to remember all the good things i have had in the past and hope to continue the same in the future and more. I always think that my memory is so good that i can tell many of the things happened during my childhood, even my mom don't remember.

Ok, so there we go... lets see how it goes.