Yesterday and today are relatively meeting free - a great and unique rarity!
I'm utilizing the time to work through some of the paper work I need to ackomplish for some upcoming project proposals.
Looking forward to this coming weekend - Memorial day - Long weekend! Woohoo. My parents will be visiting from Friday night through Tuesday - should be lots of fun.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Saturday, May 22, 2004
the Silent Week
No posts this week. Eriely silent?
This week I gave a presenation to a group of abotu 200 people about the direction I have my group moving in about web application development.
In the presentation I covered why these techniques were required, what gaps there were, how we were addressing the gaps currently, and where we were going in the future.
Technology wise I focused on .NET and Plumtree, but mentioned Websphere parallelism and tools like DataDynamics ActiveReports and Coalesys PanelBar and WebMenu.
The presentation went fairly well - I feel I handled the Q&A at the end very strongly.
I also like the fact that it helps me keep my team focused on realizing the goals we have set forth.
Additionally we have a big project thats a go, as well as 7 more to estimate formally.
Went to a AA ballgame last night - Jessica's boss had purchased a luxury box at the game to celebrate the 200th new home sale by his company. We had a great time.
My parents are coming to visit next weekend as well - should be a great time. Probably going to get them to King of Prussia mall, as well as out for Indian food for something different.
This week I gave a presenation to a group of abotu 200 people about the direction I have my group moving in about web application development.
In the presentation I covered why these techniques were required, what gaps there were, how we were addressing the gaps currently, and where we were going in the future.
Technology wise I focused on .NET and Plumtree, but mentioned Websphere parallelism and tools like DataDynamics ActiveReports and Coalesys PanelBar and WebMenu.
The presentation went fairly well - I feel I handled the Q&A at the end very strongly.
I also like the fact that it helps me keep my team focused on realizing the goals we have set forth.
Additionally we have a big project thats a go, as well as 7 more to estimate formally.
Went to a AA ballgame last night - Jessica's boss had purchased a luxury box at the game to celebrate the 200th new home sale by his company. We had a great time.
My parents are coming to visit next weekend as well - should be a great time. Probably going to get them to King of Prussia mall, as well as out for Indian food for something different.
Monday, May 17, 2004
Weekend
Had an excellent weekend overall, even if my desktop decided to misbehave. It looks like something in the ide raid controller. Since the harddrives(3) are the loudest part of my desktop if they start acting up I may well just grab a S-ATA PCI card and newe S-ATA silent harddrive. I like finding excuses to get new toys ;)
Kasey the yellow lab had an excellent weekend. It was full of playing, annoying me (is it time to play yet? is it? is it?), and eating REAL bones (a pig femer and a Mamoth bone). Her behavior is getting much better as she matures a little - I'm impressed with her intelligence and she's only 8mo old.
Saturday night I had hibachi for the first time. I enjoyed to cooking style, however the food nearly killed me. Perhaps I'm exagerating slightly but it wasn't pleasant. Its suspected that I may be alelrgic to MSG.
Saw TROY on Friday night. Good movie. Brad Pitt did a great job, and it was an excellent production. No complaints, although I'm not raving either. Definetly worth seeing in the theater if you enjoy that sort of pass time.
Began working on my presentation for this thursday also - starting to get nervous, but excited at the material at the same time. I'm going to cover three main topics - IT industry (direction, undercutting, and outsourcing), my group and our response and alignment, and .NET/Plumtree.
Kasey the yellow lab had an excellent weekend. It was full of playing, annoying me (is it time to play yet? is it? is it?), and eating REAL bones (a pig femer and a Mamoth bone). Her behavior is getting much better as she matures a little - I'm impressed with her intelligence and she's only 8mo old.
Saturday night I had hibachi for the first time. I enjoyed to cooking style, however the food nearly killed me. Perhaps I'm exagerating slightly but it wasn't pleasant. Its suspected that I may be alelrgic to MSG.
Saw TROY on Friday night. Good movie. Brad Pitt did a great job, and it was an excellent production. No complaints, although I'm not raving either. Definetly worth seeing in the theater if you enjoy that sort of pass time.
Began working on my presentation for this thursday also - starting to get nervous, but excited at the material at the same time. I'm going to cover three main topics - IT industry (direction, undercutting, and outsourcing), my group and our response and alignment, and .NET/Plumtree.
Thursday, May 13, 2004
I like thursdays...
I was not looking forward to a weekly meeting this morning - blah!. I got there and it was actually a pretty good meeting, even if it was 30 minutes longer than required.
One client is a pain, they refuse to do any upfront design, or think things through. Then when things work as expected they panic and want us to undo them, which would take a considerable amount of time and effort and would be pointless.
Good news on my automated build/release initiative front: getting an almagamated source repository may not be an issue after all. Additionally one of my staff did a great job taking something that extra step for me - a welcome relief.
Jessica is great - starting to go a little nuts on planning but not to bad :)
Other good news - my RIM pager that I was sure I had lost, and I put in a request for a new one is found.
Pretty good Thursday, even if its 6:30pm and still at work.... 11hour day, no wonder I feel I got a fair bit accomplished.
One client is a pain, they refuse to do any upfront design, or think things through. Then when things work as expected they panic and want us to undo them, which would take a considerable amount of time and effort and would be pointless.
Good news on my automated build/release initiative front: getting an almagamated source repository may not be an issue after all. Additionally one of my staff did a great job taking something that extra step for me - a welcome relief.
Jessica is great - starting to go a little nuts on planning but not to bad :)
Other good news - my RIM pager that I was sure I had lost, and I put in a request for a new one is found.
Pretty good Thursday, even if its 6:30pm and still at work.... 11hour day, no wonder I feel I got a fair bit accomplished.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
places
Jessica went and looked at the Palace yesterday, but was concerned that it was a little too large ornate for our tastes. Also concerned that the construction might not be completed, so we'd probably have push out to end of April 2005... the search continues.
build/deploy
I'm pleased with the CruiseControl.net/nAnt integration. I have it working for 3 projects now and its doing exactly what its supposed to.
Next tasks will be to do a few more of the projects, and work on a task to register a MTS dll.
I'm also looking at our version control system - currently VSS, thinking we may need to upgrade to CVS, subversion, or BitKeeper in the future.
Next tasks will be to do a few more of the projects, and work on a task to register a MTS dll.
I'm also looking at our version control system - currently VSS, thinking we may need to upgrade to CVS, subversion, or BitKeeper in the future.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
synergy
I'll admit I feel like I trying to push a really heavy object up a hill.
Recently a reorg occured here at work, and my team got shuffled up, some of my best team members went to another manager, and I ended up with an almalgamation of a few groups.
The reasoning for this is to try to find the synergies from the groups and build some alignment amoungst them and their development processes.
Some of this is pretty clear, while in the same technology (ie .NET or Java) but gets more complicated looking accross more technologies such as Broadvision and Domino.
I'm trying to get back focused on improving our development standards - focusing on build, release consistancy, as well as automated unit testing.
To this end I'm trying to get CruiseControl.NET, nAnt, and nUnit working cohesively for a number of applications.
Recently a reorg occured here at work, and my team got shuffled up, some of my best team members went to another manager, and I ended up with an almalgamation of a few groups.
The reasoning for this is to try to find the synergies from the groups and build some alignment amoungst them and their development processes.
Some of this is pretty clear, while in the same technology (ie .NET or Java) but gets more complicated looking accross more technologies such as Broadvision and Domino.
I'm trying to get back focused on improving our development standards - focusing on build, release consistancy, as well as automated unit testing.
To this end I'm trying to get CruiseControl.NET, nAnt, and nUnit working cohesively for a number of applications.
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