Category: Grab Bag

Shamu Rocks America Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo. Last nights Lotusphere 2006 party saw 6,000 attendees make their way to Sea World for an night of food, drinks and shows. This is quite a logistics exercise in moving all the attendees from various hotels, to the park and back, requiring a large fleet of buses. Read More …

Presence Everywhere In the browser, website, mobile device, application. Sametime on the Blackberry. Goal: Federated Model, multiple protocols, Enhanced User Experience Integrated collaboration – awareness in email & calendar, collaboration in context. Voice/Telephone/Video/IM Interoperability Click-to-call using existing telephony system or VOIP or whatever. ST 7.5 Click-to-talk. Reduction of voicemail. Presence ? Text chat ? Voice Read More …

So, I’m sitting in a session all about the buzz technology and what IBM is doing in this space, so what better time to do a little bloggin’. The session provided a brief and quick overview of the three technologies, blogs, wikis & feeds. Blogs On the CIO radar and being adopted bottom up, like Read More …

Great opening session with a strong emphasis on the Lotus Notes/Domino product having a long and strong future and that IBm is committed to the technology and that it’s an integral part of the overarching SOA strategy.

Man, I’m so glad to be outa’ here! Las Vegas is just too much and I’m so looking forward to a couple of days with friends in a more “normal” city. The hotel had been quite quiet all week, at least up on our 23rd floor location. But, last night some party neighbors checked in Read More …

Last session of the week and I’m tired. So many people, so many packed days. All in all the conference has been great and I’ve learned a little bit more about several new areas. These new insights will be useful for the year ahead. Insights into products, strategies and directions for the company. I’ll be Read More …

TechFest Logo Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo. My first TechFest at SWU! Just me and 1,200+ friends all hooking up our laptops on a network to a zSeries mainframe for some hands on enablement. [Picture] We explored Websphere Portal, HATS, MQ, RSA and other software on a single 18 CPU zSeries running multiple LPARS. [Picture Read More …

Opening session was very good. The usual exec presentations from Mike & Steve, a dance presentation from Alume (sp), a song on the “Power to Win” theme with the SWU house band (the MGM has a kickin’ sound system),a musical performance by Mobius 8 , and a motivational presentation from Jamie Clarke, a mountaineer from Read More …

Up at 5:50 and out of the Mirage by 6:20 for the hike to the MGM for the Opening General Session. Man, it’s always farther that I think, it’s a 30 minute walk, but good to be outside for a while and get some fresh air while the city is still pretty quiet. This year Read More …

One hundered and forty four of the elect will get to experience the SOA (Services Oriented Architecture) Battle Day as a pre-SWU event. I’ve arrived a little early and it’s looking pretty impressive. 144 laptops with multiple Vmware images so it won’t just be theoretical lectures, but a mix of information and hands-on learning. Should Read More …