The snow continues to fall

So... It started again yesterday and it must be at least another 40cm of snow that has fallen... Although I love the winter, I don't like shovelling snow :D

As long as one get to be inside, it is really nice to have a cup of coffee and look out at all the snow... But driving home is a whole different story...

Feeds from Lotusphere

I spent some time yesterday (Sunday) trying to follow the news feed from Lotusphere and the amount of Tweets that was sent was huge! However the amount of blog entries was rather decreased! I guess Twitter is the place to follow the Sphere??

Maybe today (Monday) and the OGS will be different, with lots of people live blogging... Of course I wish I could be there in person, but for sure looking forward to follow blogs and tweets instead!

Virtual memory on Domino?

Page File and Domino.... We have had the standard in Windows Server (for Domino) to have Page File Size set to 1.1 times the physical memory. I brought this up with our Windows Server experts a couple of months ago and they recommended to use 'System Managed Page File'. So far so good...

When we started the upgrade to Domino 8.5.1 we decided that the upgrade of Domino is a perfect opportunity to change the page file settings as well. It works great for 32 bit servers but our 64 bit servers (64 bit Domino on 64 bit Windows) have now started to alert on low virtual memory. So apparently it is not perfect to have 'System Managed Page File' on 64 bit systems.

Does any one have any good suggestions? Is there a best practice for Page Files for Domino on Windows?

A new development sprint is born

After a couple of months of not so good control over what we are doing in technical development we decided to move back to "Scrum Light". Basically we divide 2010 into 11 sprints and we will plan each sprint in detail. It will be the responsibility for each member that all tasks assigned to them will be solved. We will hold weekly meeting where we discuss the status of each task and make sure we can, together, resolve any issues that have risen.

The scary with sprints is that it is always so many things we want to squeeze into a four week time box. I guess it is a learning period before we all understand that we have to have fewer things added to each sprint... I mean, reality is always there and steals time away from your plan...

On the positive side I really believe that if we can manage to focus on a few important tasks, those tasks will be delivered with much greater speed and quality...

Looking forward to many sunny days in 2010!

Not going...

Unfortunately we are not going to Orlando this year. The financial situation means we have travel restrictions and they are still very much in place. Hopefully there will be a lot of news to read about from home - but of course it would have been much nicer to be there in person... Maybe next year?

In the mean time I will work on the Sametime 8.5 and Domino 8.5.1 upgrades...

Sametime 8.5 is really great!

During 2009 we have been part of the beta testing of Sametime 8.5... And now that it is finally out there, I thought I'd share some of the reasons why we will plan for a migration from our current 802 infrastructure as soon as possible...

- The first thing that surprised me was the sound... The extremely good quality of the sound... The best VoIP sound I have ever experienced...
- Second, the startup speed and stability of the new meeting client...
- Third important factor is the new proxy that finally will make it possible to use Sametime and create Communications Enabled Business Processes (CEBP).

Well done the Sametime team...

The christmas tree? Well it was drawn in real time, together with a few of my colleagues... In Sametime...