tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69574462024-03-14T04:16:32.585+01:00EA DomeRoad to Enterprise ArchitectureAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-2203358784061954772011-08-19T19:37:00.000+01:002011-08-19T20:31:32.156+01:00TOGAF Day 4 (Final)Same rigorous sessions. Lunch was a drab. I so much hoped that my team wins the Most Innovative Name competition with Name Caravan Global with this Banner. John decided Team Ventura the winner. The name kind of remind me of the Ventura and does not directly connote Courier services that formed the core of the Case Studies. Anyway, the prizes were Mars chocolate bars and Team Ventura was nice Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-9090203996371356102011-08-18T11:16:00.000+01:002011-08-19T12:08:12.805+01:00TOGAF Day 3Today we were able to get as far as the F stage of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method. At this point I as already suffering a paralysis from the Information Overload. Just could not take much more and was distracted for most part of the day. I still tried to learn a bit more and participated in the group task. I Each of the teams were able to present their developed Artifacts. Quite Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-34261076804993660412011-08-17T10:21:00.000+01:002011-08-18T10:23:57.280+01:00TOGAF Day 2Day 2 is more puzzling as they sessions got more intense and so much more terms to note and models to understand. For a moment, I was swarmed but need to all I can not to get confused. Filled with renewed respect for the Boss I work with at MTN as he has been practicing this all these over the years and most people unable to figure out his act. Amidst the busy session. I was still able to take Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-8667593925972216752011-08-16T16:36:00.000+01:002011-08-16T19:32:53.274+01:00TOGAF Day 1Though I still continue in the IASA Mentoring program. I had to pause for a few days to attain a TOGAF Certification. Training facilitated by John Polgreen from Architecting the Enterprise. I have had a bit of experience with Frameworks having worked on eTOM and NGOSS over the last couple of years so TOGAF is not pretty new but I have a bit of issues understanding the Architectural models. I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-82206180451612272582011-08-04T17:20:00.000+01:002011-08-04T19:29:59.887+01:00Journey to EA: IASA Mentoring Day 4  Another Mentor just accepted  to indulge me. He is Lalo Steinmann. He has experience in Architecture Strategy and currently working on Public Sector Cloud Strategy for Microsoft. So far I have been able to set my learning goals with Lalo Steinmann. A little similar to Scott’s goals but more on Strategy which is Lalo’s obviously core strength. I mailed Scott to request permission Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-67115007742749300542011-08-03T15:38:00.000+01:002011-08-03T20:35:05.348+01:00Journey to EA: IASA Mentoring Day 3  Spent a bit time today reading about Business Architecture but then I got an interview to prepare for and still got a lot of the companies products to learn about. Buzzed Scott on GTalk around 7.30pm GMT +1. Just before then, I had a thought not to contact him today to give myself time to prepare better for his sessions. I can’t be seen asking dumb questions. This will mean having to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-78984517160562228082011-08-02T20:52:00.007+01:002011-08-02T21:54:10.481+01:00Journey to EA: IASA Mentoring Day 2After reading the IASA Mentee handbook just before bed the previous night. I realised a key Goal visibly missing in my goals set on day 1 which is toDevelop and build a healthy/cordial relationship with my mentorOn getting to work, I immediately responded to Scott's and composed another mail on my ipad about myself with a picture of my family and I. Discovered later through Scott that all test Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-62681928276081726642011-08-01T17:19:00.002+01:002011-08-01T18:27:29.068+01:00Journey to EA: IASA Mentoring Day 1Waking up this morning, I was so pumped about my IASA Mentoring program to commence today. A little downcast not being able to find any information yet in my email box; a situation exacerbated by my excitement. Last week's orientation Webinar was a blast. It was very informative and assuring of the value in this program. After a long wait due to the time zone difference, Paul Preiss sent an Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-1081561449351937582011-03-09T14:07:00.004+01:002011-03-09T15:13:55.691+01:00Motorola Xoom ReviewGot a Motorola Xoom from BestBuy but contrary to my expectation of making it my beloved tablet for a long time, I had to return it in a couple of days. I do see a lot of tweets from people claiming it's a great device and using video experiences as evidence and think it nice to share my own experience of the device. Disclaimer: This is not to prevent any buyer from going ahead with their wish Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-48568312817664852392010-11-02T15:45:00.004+01:002010-11-02T17:53:31.977+01:00My HTC Desire ReviewMuch have been said about the HTC Desire since it's release in February, 2010. Reviewers has showered quite so much accolades on the device that I hardly could find any thumb-down review of it.In all, honesty, it's a beautiful device, and with the Android 2.2 (Froyo) doing great on the device you'd think no device maker could ever get it wrong. I recently made a painful switch from the iPhone 3GSAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-75023908111993812432010-07-26T11:00:00.001+01:002010-07-26T11:00:14.151+01:00Unboxing New XBox 360 SlimAfter weeks of checking Best Buy stores all around Houston for availability of the new XBox 360 S, was finally able buy one. Shipping down to Nigeria took a bit longer too but alas I have it here at last.I would have loved it shipped with MS Kinect but that could be purchased later. THe pack include, the XBox Console, ever humongous power pack (though much smaller that the one I used to have), a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-14097453090455936142010-02-20T00:35:00.001+01:002010-02-20T00:35:48.552+01:00MVP Summit 2010 EndsThe day began like any other morning and MVP turnout at breakfast was quite scanty. A few MVPs had left at the early hours of the morning while the others are still in bed after a long night at the Garage, downtown Seattle.Keynote was at 9am with Nestor Portilo and his supporting entertainers on Stage. Quite some new NDA stuff which I consider cool. A lot of new eye-opener to the Bing Paradigm. IAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-1853139858045843242010-02-17T08:15:00.001+01:002010-02-17T08:15:58.859+01:00MVP Summit Day 1Arrived at Bellevue yesterday aternoon like a few other MVPs but not much activities though. My MVP lead (Ruari Plint) was benevolent enough to take all MEA MVPs out to the PumpHouse for dinner.Day One of the summit begin with MVP registration and the side sessions commenced 12pm till 3.30pm.All MVPs were looking forward to the Keynote address with Nestor Portillo and Toby Richard.Got my Team Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-65223762654845748652010-02-03T13:56:00.001+01:002010-02-03T13:56:39.029+01:00Windows 7 on MacBookHaving a MacBook is something I am quite proud about but then I am not ready to give-up the Windows that I have known all my life. I have been using Windows 7 for over a year and what a cool OS I find it to be. Even though the Mac OS X Snow Leopard is cool too. I still want my Windows running on it. What's the use of having an Intel-based processor if I can't run Windows as well. Even Linus if I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-57205706851917885092010-01-12T21:27:00.001+01:002010-01-12T21:27:24.536+01:00Things I hate about my MacThe Mac is a very good machine. I am like the Paul of the Mac machine formerly Saul of PC - prosecuting the Mac System and stoning Mac users (not literarily) if you happen to have read the bible at all or heard from those that have read (like I did). I find the Mac incomparable with the PC. The Spec of My Mac Book Air is about the Spec of my previously owned PCs I bought 2 years ago but much Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-4574400743437075822010-01-11T17:46:00.001+01:002010-01-11T17:52:38.242+01:00Fixing Ghosted FileJust a few weeks old on the Mac and I already experienced a peculiar situation twice. It's been fun configuring the Mac and getting it as close as possible to my previous Windows dexterity as possible though it's been a lot of distractions too. On moving files sometimes especially unto a destination NTFS partition, I realised some of the files moved are ghosted. I investigated and discovered thisAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-91707411414295458852010-01-11T17:45:00.001+01:002010-01-11T17:45:20.450+01:00SSIS vs InformaticaIn a recent outing, I met with a product vendor wanting to do ETL for a Siebel CRM product from Oracle database. Trust me, I was quick to recommend SSIS which I am very familiar and very recently just had a laudable success extracting and Migration of Billing Information from a Legacy ENDAN (SQL Server based) application to Singl.eView from Intec. On further discussion with the vendor, he would Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-41543883923983041582010-01-04T13:23:00.001+01:002010-01-11T18:54:48.592+01:00Happy New Year!It's a New Year! Happy New Year to all you guyz and Hope 2010 holds so much great Software Experience ...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-8844164094326341662009-12-14T11:28:00.004+01:002010-01-11T17:46:21.852+01:00Me & My MacJust got a Mac. It's been quite a while since I have been longing to get a Mac which resulted in saving up money and spending it before getting to the Macbook Pro 17" target and all assorted. Finally settled for a MacBook Air and it's such a beautiful machine.Such a great leap from my previous HP crap and even though the mac cost a lot more, it's worth every dime. I can go and on on features and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-74786572753171670152009-07-14T20:26:00.001+01:002009-07-14T20:26:35.617+01:00Some old PixSome very old pix of me and mi pals at Telnet Basement working with SoftWorks Limited. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-61882716157079445092009-07-14T18:17:00.001+01:002009-07-14T18:17:51.793+01:00Duplicate Filtering in SSISHaving being frustrated on lack of duplicate filtering in SSIS, I decided to take a work around, first dump the data in a temporary table and pick it up with "select distinct … “ in the next task. This work around works though but fails in instances that the filter had to be applied on some of the columns selected unlike “select distinct ..” that applies across all the selected columns. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-61457199769039968122009-07-06T15:53:00.001+01:002009-07-06T15:53:40.495+01:00Multipoint Collaborative ApplicationA client walked up to me after a recent presentation asking how to go about having a collaborative multi-mouse based application. I pulled back a bit before responding, quickly kicking around in my head. What will happen if I got multiple input device (mouse devices) in Windows? It should just work. Notebooks has had this features for years and it just work but then I gotta see what happens if I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-80594892992044839022009-07-02T19:35:00.001+01:002009-07-02T19:35:22.640+01:00Record Value Frequency In SSISI blogged last week about a problem on Record Value Frequency in SSIS. I suggested in the blog post on how to go about taking care of this. “The only way I could see out of this is to write a CLR function to achieve this which I am feeling so lazy to do but still has to be done.” This I finally had time to do and pasted below is the simple CLR User Defined Functions (UDF) static Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-35623766969924118282009-07-02T19:34:00.001+01:002009-07-02T19:34:34.759+01:00PDC 2009 I have always known that PDC event will be in November but not sure if the date has been fixed. Today, I had to start writing plans for November and realized I have no idea of the actual date. After some Googling with ‘Bing over the net, found the dates to be from Tuesday, November 17th through Thursday, November 19th. Not so excited that it’s going to be in LA (LAX Convention Centre) again!.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6957446.post-33766507496456952372009-06-29T15:42:00.001+01:002009-06-29T15:42:06.609+01:00Pimp my Notebook After months of feeling so sorry for my Hp notebook and prayed silently that i can afford a new mac pro. decided to shape it up a bit. Stepped up d RAM to blazing 4G, OS to Win 7, HD to 320GB (7200rpm) and then adorn it with these stickers. That should get d Mac off my mind 4 some months hopefully till apple rethinks its pricing. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13146951618753203725noreply@blogger.com0