Rebirth of T-rex

Many things have kept me busy lately. The main focus was supporting a few prototypes
delivered to the potential customer and trying to improve the performance.

The one that really make our team and company proud is that we managed to convince the customer with a 188 vs 6 server hits figure during the testing. It may not make sense with that figure without understanding what it stands for. Basically, the figure shows the total number of server hits for a booking process in the existing system implemented using JSP/Javascript against the prototype we built. It clearly shows that with JSP/Javascript cause 188 server hits for the entire process, while our prototype only need 6. Therefore, the network traffic has been reduced tremendously (it's 31% of the original). It also means with the same infra-structure, it can supports more concurrent transactions. I can really see the sales and marketing personnel, especially my CEO, are really excited with this figure. They have been using this case studies every where when approaching prospects. I have heard it several times during the Novell Open Source Developers Conference at Sheraton Hotel, Subang Jaya.

I was also busy with the Novell Open Source Developers Conference. The event was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, in which Tuesday was the Conference at Sheraton Hotel, while Workshop was on Wednesday at KMDC, Plaza Sentral. I was sort of coordinating on the preparation for the workshop. I am really glad to have a great team members contributing a lot of effort to make the workshop successful. Though some struggles were met during the process as it is our first time, however, we managed to get through it. Really appreaciate their effort.

On Tuesday, my partner and I went to KMDC to set up the necessary software for the workshop. When we reached the venue, we were shocked with the training room as it's really very conducive and I haven't really seen one like this before. The room is sound proof, there is a special white board which you can't write with normal white board marker, instead, there is special electronic marker and duster. The most impressive part is the electronic marker can act as pointer to drag the mouse pointer on the projected screen, while it also reflects on the computer screen. Cool! Besides, the machines the vendor provided are really elegant!

After the installation process has completed, my partner and I got a call from my VP who was at the conference in Sheraton Hotel. Then, we decided to go over to the conference to attend a session on UML. We took KTM train from KL Sentral then took a book from Subang Jaya KTM station to Subang Jaya Medical Center. It was great as I haven't been taking train for quite a while. The fare is pretty cheap and the journey is smooth. When we reached our company's booth in Sheraton Hotel, I can see that the crowd at our booth really attracted many participants of the conference. That's where and when I heard 188 vs 6 figures several times. :) Really proud of it!

Anyway. starting from Monday, I will be working on a new project, yes, this time is a real project! I was notified on Wednesday that the project might start on Monday and I will be involved. However, the confirmation only came in this evening. In fact, I am really excited and a bit of worry also. Hopefully, everything will go well. As I always have my lovely gf supporting me, I will never give up so easily :)