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TOGAF Day 4 (Final)

2011-08-19T19:37:00.000+01:00

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

TOGAF Day 3

2011-08-18T11:16:00.000+01:00

Today 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

TOGAF Day 2

2011-08-17T10:21:00.000+01:00

Day 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

TOGAF Day 1

2011-08-16T16:36:00.000+01:00

Though 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

Journey to EA: IASA Mentoring Day 4

2011-08-04T17:20:00.000+01:00

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 to pass as

Journey to EA: IASA Mentoring Day 3

2011-08-03T15:38:00.000+01:00

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 mail him

Journey to EA: IASA Mentoring Day 2

2011-08-02T20:52:00.007+01:00

After 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

Journey to EA: IASA Mentoring Day 1

2011-08-01T17:19:00.002+01:00

Waking 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

Motorola Xoom Review

2011-03-09T14:07:00.004+01:00

Got 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

My HTC Desire Review

2010-11-02T15:45:00.004+01:00

Much 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 3GS

Unboxing New XBox 360 Slim

2010-07-26T11:00:00.001+01:00

After 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

MVP Summit 2010 Ends

2010-02-20T00:35:00.001+01:00

The 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. I

MVP Summit Day 1

2010-02-17T08:15:00.001+01:00

Arrived 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

Windows 7 on MacBook

2010-02-03T13:56:00.001+01:00

Having 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

Things I hate about my Mac

2010-01-12T21:27:00.001+01:00

The 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

Fixing Ghosted File

2010-01-11T17:46:00.001+01:00

Just 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 this

SSIS vs Informatica

2010-01-11T17:45:00.001+01:00

In 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

Happy New Year!

2010-01-04T13:23:00.001+01:00

It's a New Year! Happy New Year to all you guyz and Hope 2010 holds so much great Software Experience ...

Me & My Mac

2009-12-14T11:28:00.004+01:00

Just 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

Some old Pix

2009-07-14T20:26:00.001+01:00

Some very old pix of me and mi pals at Telnet Basement working with SoftWorks Limited.

Duplicate Filtering in SSIS

2009-07-14T18:17:00.001+01:00

Having 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. Alas!!!

Multipoint Collaborative Application

2009-07-06T15:53:00.001+01:00

A 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

Record Value Frequency In SSIS

2009-07-02T19:35:00.001+01:00

I 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

PDC 2009

2009-07-02T19:34:00.001+01:00

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!.

Pimp my Notebook

2009-06-29T15:42:00.001+01:00

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.

Hi Pal!

2009-06-24T15:48:00.001+01:00

A dear friend I met at the summit earlier in the year. He had this as cover of his presentation in China just after the summit. Hi Pal!

Record Value Frequency

2009-06-24T10:52:00.001+01:00

First I’d like to quote my recent tweet on this issue Have always considered SSIS to be extremely flexible but lately found wrong. Nevertheless, yet to find any ETL too that can beat itI think I may have been wrong to blame this on SSIS but rather on limitations of TSQL itself. My situation is a need to have frequency of a record value indicated in a column as indices as below.csharpcode, .

Ftp’ing files in Folder in SSIS

2009-06-08T13:05:00.001+01:00

Recently, I came across a need to copy all csv files generated from an SSIS process to a Unix server. FTP became handy for this purpose. The FTP SSIS task will not work with folder/directories – came up with error message File Usage type of connection "xxxxxx" should be "FileExists" for operation Send.csharpcode, .csharpcode pre{ font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier

Gearing up for TechEd Africa 2009

2009-06-03T11:18:00.001+01:00

TechEd Africa 2009 – Potential Lives Here ‘TechEd is in its 10th year and is positioned to be the best yet! As promised, this is your pre-notification that the TechEd Africa 2009 website is now live and open for registration! Be sure to take advantage of the Super Early Bird offer and forward this invite to your Colleagues and friends’ Be part of the experience. So much to discover. Hundreds

Pix from Events

2009-06-01T14:52:00.000+01:00

Picture from some of the Developer Events I attended recently. Just thought I should share this. With Anders Hejlsberg (MVP Summit ‘09) with Don Box (PDC ‘08) With Scott Guthrie (Mr. Red Shirt – PDC ‘08) with Ingo Rammer (PDC ‘08) with Ken Spann (PDC ‘08)

ADAM on Windows 7

2009-06-01T14:42:00.001+01:00

Recently has a need to program authentication for an application using ADAM. This is something I have done in the past so got a good existing code I could leverage on. Alas! ADAM would not install on Windows 7. I It kept returning “Out of Storage” error! This has been a known problem in Windows Vista as can be seen in the blog post Shawn Cicoria – CedarLogic, Extemporaneous Mumblings Tried

Visual Studio 2010 Extensions

2009-05-27T08:52:00.001+01:00

Using the Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager. So far, I found these extensions useful I guess the plan to use WPF for Visual Studio development is beginning to pay off. I still miss GhostDoc though :)

Intel VT not in HP nc6400

2009-05-26T11:03:00.001+01:00

Just think it time to check out the Windows 7 XP mode out and after wasting 445MB of my monthly internet Quota to discover that my HP nc6400 most priced notebook will not run XP mode. Windows 7 XP mode requires Intel VT for hardware assisted Acceleration to run. I exactly don’t know whom to blame, Intel or Microsoft or HP. Intel for failing to include such feature but of course they got

Tuple in C# 4.0

2009-05-25T14:14:00.001+01:00

Tuple is defined as a Sequence (or ordered list) of finite length. Other definitions exist but I particularly like to see it as such. I have been craving for this feature ever since seen in Cw(C-Omega). This is particularly useful when you want to return multiple values from a function/method especially when they are not related enough to want to put then in a class or struct. Some developers

Implicitly Type Local Variable & Multiple Declarators

2009-05-22T14:04:00.000+01:00

It is perfectly legal in C# to have declarations written this int x, y; which with initialized values is int x= 5, y=6; Alas, the C# compiler rejects this var x=5, y=6; This is because the C# Compiler does not allow multiple declarators on the var keyword. I wondered where this is not allowed and if you ask me so much restrictions on the use of the var keyword (can't use as method

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET FX 4 Beta 1 ships

2009-05-19T15:57:00.003+01:00

The Beta 1 version of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 shipped to MSDN download subscribers early yesterday. It can be downloaded here. I have already downloaded it and the first test performed is co-existence with my VS 2008 and so far no problem yet with the little test I have done on it.

Imagine Cup (Nigeria) '09

2009-05-15T11:07:00.008+01:00

The Nigeria final of the Imagine Cup competition ended yesterday with Team X emerging the winner. The competition was quite keen and winnings was just by a slight margin. I was particularly impressed with Team X for their presentation and having a cool extensible application. The judging criteria allowed extensibility just 10% but the fact that they are the only one with extensible application

Lessons on WPF

2009-04-14T14:45:00.001+01:00

Ever since the release of WPF, I have had no chance of running a live project on it. I have done quite a lot of mini testing of some of it's cool features but never a live application. Recently, a client requested for a small File Generation application in an attempt to drop their current legacy file generation application. These files are later sent to suppliers messages based Ordering systems.

ResolverOne - IronPython Spreadsheet

2009-03-25T09:09:00.002+01:00

I met Michael Foord (the kind of guy that runs Windows on MacPro. He also wrote a book IronPython in Action still in print by Manning ) recently and he was so passionate about what he's been doing in the IronPython Space. He has this cool programmable spreadsheet application dubbed ResolverOne . Believe me, this will make you never want to touch VBA. A similar implementation was demoed at

MVP Summit Update!

2009-03-02T14:40:00.003+01:00

Arrived at the Seattle on March 1, after a very long flight and airport waiting. Checking my Lagos local time, I realized I had been awake for over 29 hours. That's crazy. My head was heavy, I was quick-tempered too. Finally checked in to The Westin Hotel around 1am Seattle local time. Replied mails and other web stuff for another hour and went to Bed.My room mate is a great guy - Joel Hebert. He

Gearing up for the Summit!

2009-02-23T20:09:00.002+01:00

Gearing up for the upcoming MVP Summit! Cool that I will be able to attend this year's edition. Almost always saddled with so much around this time of year that I will have to bust plans of attending at the last minute! Breaking up the ginx this year! I should hope that's a good sign.This year is particularly different, not only my decision to attend crippled by saddled workload, also the global

.Net and Java Inteoperability

2009-02-05T13:35:00.002+01:00

I recently was saddled with the task of developing a component for a Telecoms (GSM) company. This is a company that has huge investment in Java-based applications on Sun Solaris boxes. The requirement of the component warrants a need to connect my ASP.Net based application to an existing connection pooling java-based socket application. Immediately, interoperability comes to mind. Which is best?

Google Cloud

2009-02-04T20:47:00.003+01:00

Spent half the entire day cranking at a Silverlight application and just when I got fedup with work for the entire day, I decided to get my hands dirty with the Google App Engine alt="Powered by Google App Engine" />. I have read quite a bit about it but scared of investing in a learning curve coupled with the fact that I am not going to be writing a c# code.It is python! thats something I love

Back to work!

2009-01-29T15:48:00.004+01:00

Compliments of the new year! Just getting back to work after weeks of vacation with family that unavoidable ate up the whole January for me. So great to be back home and wonders if I still remember a what a Hello World program in C# may look like (lol! won't get that bad).

Replace NewLine in TSQL

2008-11-26T16:41:00.003+01:00

It's quite frustrating how tiny task become so time-consuming and worrisome. Never would have imagined this hard to do. Had a situation where records gathered from an application will serve as input to a large application. The data first had to be cleaned (glad I got Sql server tools). This was done in seconds. On export to CSV, it was discovered that one of the fields (address field) had newline

MSFT's Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta 2

2008-11-21T20:22:00.003+01:00

Microsoft Patterns & Practice team has recently released the beta 2 of the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 offering significant changes from Beta 1 among which areTechnology matrixes for choosing technologies like Presentation, Data Access, Workflow, and Integration technologies. New Agile Architecture Method Tuned and pruned the recommendations across the entire guide. Restructured the guide

Microsoft Expression Web Inline Styles

2008-11-20T12:18:00.003+01:00

I like to agree that Microsoft Expression Web is a great tool to use. I instantly saw the need to need for such tool to complement Visual Studio and considering that it's has less memory footprint tool and I can get my tortoise- performing notebook (Never seem to get a machine fast enough -HP Compaq nc6400) to deliver working on a web page faster. It is also very cool with css and I consider

ASP.Net Textbox watermark

2008-11-19T13:22:00.004+01:00

I don't like to do javascript! Asked myself several times over the past years why my javascript has been so poor even it has several syntax semblance to C# and other languages with same cancer of the semi-colons ;).What I have been able to identify a reason for dislike is the poor IDE support for javascript. Visual Studio brought quite a bit of cool supports and features but not enough for an

e-Commerce Development

2008-11-17T18:14:00.003+01:00

I really do not like to do websites. In fact, I used to hate to do one and though I develop quite a bit of web-based business applications with C# and ASP.Net, website development seems not what I'd like to do.Recently, I had to take a full e-Commerce website using ZNode and LinkPoint payment gateway from First Data. ZNode is pretty interesting and intend to do a service site using this. I did

PDC 2008

2008-11-12T16:23:00.003+01:00

Just returning back to serious work after PDC 2008 at Los Angeles. Had lots of fun with co-developers. The technology show-cased were cool and got new insights too. My utmost interest is with Azure. I am yet to start drilling through my 160GB hard disk given to us but will do soon and pump lots more content about my accomplishments here. Hang on ...Check out more pix of the event at PDC 2008

Back to Blogging here

2008-11-12T14:48:00.002+01:00

I guess I will have to return to blogging here. Inthril that host my blog for a while has been having problems and so I could not log in.It's been a while I blogged. Been clogged down with lots of task and thinking and having done a lot. I Need to showcase quite a bit ot what's going on in my head.

My blog has moved

2006-05-10T19:18:00.000+01:00

I have resumed blogging and my blog has moved to http://inthrill.com/weblogs/dapo/Thanx

Alfa version of my Current Project

2004-05-15T01:03:00.000+01:00

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