Currently Listening

Currently Listening

Oracle Technology Day

Was at the Oracle Technology Day at the Park Sheraton. Lot of informative sessions on two tracks . After the keynote on Grid computing I decided to attend the first track that included sessions on Business Integration, Business intelligence and then switch to track 2 to attend the sessions on RFID. The speakers did a thorough job to demystify the jargon surrounding 10g. Dont miss it when it comes to your city.

Productivity Tools

Here are a few cute tools that you can use to increase your productivity.
LinkedIn
Flickr
Wikipad

GMail

Looks like Gmail is going to roll out soon. Yesterday I had 3 invites left. Today I have 50 !!!

Requirements Management

Worked on RequisitePro to do some requirement modelling. Its been quite sometime since I worked on it. I found that the user interface has changed for the better. The explorer like bar on the left displays all that you have created, in a tree structure, at a glance you can find the meaning of a specific term, view the use case or for that matter any requirement type, locate the occurrences of this in the document, view traceability, integrate with Rose to continue with your modelling and a lot more. This indirectly also promotes re-usability

Reading Lists

At my early morning ritual of reading my mails and TP's posts. TP's recommended two books that he's read on a flight from Houston to Bangkok. Noted it down in my planner only to figure out that I have plenty of reading lists that seem to grow with each passing day. Here they are

1. Books to read in my library (Non Fiction) - 38 entries
2. Books to read in my library (Fiction) - 11 entries
3. Management - 35 entries
4. Unanamed list! - 35 entries
5. Another Unanamed list!! - 9 entries
6. TP's recommendations - 38 entries
7. TP's collection - 11 entries
8. Peter drucker collection - 1 entry
9. Personal Finance - 9 entries
10. Edward De Bono Collection - no entries !!
11. India Collection - 21 entries
12. The Hindu (newspaper) list - 51 entries
13. Forbes List - 4 entries
14. Boigraphies - 6 entries
15. Sigmund Freud collection - no entries
16. Yet another unnamed list!!! - 52 entries
17. Technical Books - 39 entries
18. Dan Brown's To Ten - 12 entries
19. William Dalrymple list - 2 entries
20 Books to Buy - 16 entries
21. Antiques and Heritage - 15 entries

Phew!