Successfully deployed stored procedure and created a new operation in the webservice and executed it. Added materials for more pages to the chapter. Around 10 AM, we got this announcement on PA to observe a moment of silence for victims of 9/11. Don't recall hearing such an announcement at Wachovia PA anytime.
Quotable Quote: "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Redbooks residency:Day 7:Monday September 10
Still couldn't deploy the stored procedure. Authored 22 more pages for this 2nd chapter. It is amazing at the amount of time it takes to gather and write out these technical materials.
Quotable Quote: “What you are is God’s gift to you; what you become is your gift to God.” -Andre Agassi
Quotable Quote: “What you are is God’s gift to you; what you become is your gift to God.” -Andre Agassi
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Redbooks residency:Day 6:Sunday September 9
Taking a weekend break. With recommendation from the hotel front desk, myself and Mario decided to hike in Locust grove, Samuel Morse Historic Website http://www.morsehistoricsite.org/. The Morse code founder lived in there. Nice trail with scenic views into the Hudson river which BTW is deep and wide enough to support ocean liners up to Albany in the north. Looking forward to watch the US open final between Federer and Djkovic this evening.
Scenic Hudson river with train tracks skirting it.
Beautiful trail
Samuel Morse house.
Quotable Quote: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm - Churchill.
Redbooks residency:Day 5:Saturday September 8
Cleared out all Wachovia e-mails. Successfully created the stored procedure but couldn't deploy on DB2 z/os. Will have to wait till Monday to get support on this. Authored 3 pages of the chapter giving a sense of accomplishment.
Redbooks residency:Day 4:September 7
Successfully used the BETA product (The next generation IBM data developer for Web services ) to expose a DB2 table sql as webservice. You can download at:
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=swg-vd95ob&S_PKG=swg-vd95ob&S_TACT=Developer
Tested the deployed webservices. (REST bindings with the web browser and SOAP bindings through the built in IBM Webservice Testing wizard).
Target for tomorrow:Build and deploy a stored procedure and expose it as webservice.
Quotable Quote: "When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” - Paulo Coelho
https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=swg-vd95ob&S_PKG=swg-vd95ob&S_TACT=Developer
Tested the deployed webservices. (REST bindings with the web browser and SOAP bindings through the built in IBM Webservice Testing wizard).
Target for tomorrow:Build and deploy a stored procedure and expose it as webservice.
Quotable Quote: "When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back.” - Paulo Coelho
Redbooks residency:Day 3:September 6
Kept going in a direction leading to some dead ends. Realized that product supporting webservices between WAS and DB2 is really a beta product. Redbooks are not meant to illustrate beta products, but since this product is available in a public website, it is OK to document this in the Redbooks. The demo illustrating exposure of DB2 stored procedure and table data as Webservice with SOAP and REST bindings was really cool though.
Quotable Quote: Doing things right is always good, but what matters most is doing the right things right.
Quotable Quote: Doing things right is always good, but what matters most is doing the right things right.
Redbooks residency:Day 2:September 5.
The last redbooks resident "Ron Townsend" came on board today. He flew in from Indianapolis. He had given a proof of technology for Wachovia for the printing solutions replacement system, and worked with David Weddle and Jerry Sienkewiz (Coincidence or what).
Framemaker/Writing English class (9:30-12:30). The instructor gave some background on "Kill" names for places around here ( Fishkill/Catskill ). It is terminology for Streams. Asked us to be wary of black bears,deers,chipmunks and poison ivy when doing outdoor activity. The lunch at IBM cafeteria was not much different from yesterday, it is turning out to be more monotonous.
The redbook may be titled: Integrating back-end systems through websphere using webservices.
Finalised the scenarios for the redbook. Topics covered could include:
1. WAS to CICS inbound/outbound with MQ and HHTP transport.
2. DB2 V9 (Viper client) Webservices between WAS and DB2. (Stored procedure and dynamic SQL)
3. WAS to IMS ( MFS based webservices and SOAP IMS gateway)
4. WAS to WAS ( WMQ,SIB, ESB....)
I am teamed to work with Ronald on 2 and 3. Sergio and Mario to work on 3 and 4.
Alex mentioned that he will be out for 2 weeks giving seminars and workshops in B'lore and Chennai,India. Came to know that his India trip was planned 2 months in advance. Beats me as to why he would schedule himself as a residency lead with such a conflict ( Bad planning???)
Quotable Quote: "What you did yesterday is history. What you promise for tomorrow is mystery. What you can deliver today is reality." - Anand P. Shah.
Framemaker/Writing English class (9:30-12:30). The instructor gave some background on "Kill" names for places around here ( Fishkill/Catskill ). It is terminology for Streams. Asked us to be wary of black bears,deers,chipmunks and poison ivy when doing outdoor activity. The lunch at IBM cafeteria was not much different from yesterday, it is turning out to be more monotonous.
The redbook may be titled: Integrating back-end systems through websphere using webservices.
Finalised the scenarios for the redbook. Topics covered could include:
1. WAS to CICS inbound/outbound with MQ and HHTP transport.
2. DB2 V9 (Viper client) Webservices between WAS and DB2. (Stored procedure and dynamic SQL)
3. WAS to IMS ( MFS based webservices and SOAP IMS gateway)
4. WAS to WAS ( WMQ,SIB, ESB....)
I am teamed to work with Ronald on 2 and 3. Sergio and Mario to work on 3 and 4.
Alex mentioned that he will be out for 2 weeks giving seminars and workshops in B'lore and Chennai,India. Came to know that his India trip was planned 2 months in advance. Beats me as to why he would schedule himself as a residency lead with such a conflict ( Bad planning???)
Quotable Quote: "What you did yesterday is history. What you promise for tomorrow is mystery. What you can deliver today is reality." - Anand P. Shah.
Redbooks residency:Day 1:September 4.
Checked into Residence Inn yesterday. Nice room with kitchen and seperated bedroom. Homely atmosphere and everything looked new ( probably newly remodelled room).
Morning breakfast ( Buffett) is free and had quite a good varietyof food. Drove to IBM site at which is behind the inn. Finished with Security and badging. Met two other residents from Sao Paulo, and Brazillia, Brazil ( Mario and Sergio ). It was a 11 hour flight for them from Brazil to US. Mario is IBM level 2 support for Banque De Brazil. Sergio was not really good in english.
Met with the residency leader Alex and Mike. Had lunch at the IBM cafeteria. The residency format is going to be fairly open and flexible which is nice that we are not really going to be constrained.
2 pm Orientation: Our residency leader Alex will be away for 2 weeks for some business trip. Mike will be taking over the residency project management. Tomorrow we are scheduled for 3 hour framemaker training. In the afternoon we will be finalising the scenarious for the redbook ( Hopefully we will have the 4th person checked in by then)
This site is where IBM makes its z/os machines. IBM System Z9 machine at the lobby. Not sure if it is a skeleton or working model though....
IBM System Z9 machine
The walls are decked with many many Redbooks published from this site on one side and many many redbook residency leaders on the other side.
The Redbooks library and current ITSO residents. ( See if you can spot me ...)
Quotable Quote: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." –- Aristotle
Morning breakfast ( Buffett) is free and had quite a good varietyof food. Drove to IBM site at which is behind the inn. Finished with Security and badging. Met two other residents from Sao Paulo, and Brazillia, Brazil ( Mario and Sergio ). It was a 11 hour flight for them from Brazil to US. Mario is IBM level 2 support for Banque De Brazil. Sergio was not really good in english.
Met with the residency leader Alex and Mike. Had lunch at the IBM cafeteria. The residency format is going to be fairly open and flexible which is nice that we are not really going to be constrained.
2 pm Orientation: Our residency leader Alex will be away for 2 weeks for some business trip. Mike will be taking over the residency project management. Tomorrow we are scheduled for 3 hour framemaker training. In the afternoon we will be finalising the scenarious for the redbook ( Hopefully we will have the 4th person checked in by then)
This site is where IBM makes its z/os machines. IBM System Z9 machine at the lobby. Not sure if it is a skeleton or working model though....
IBM System Z9 machine
The walls are decked with many many Redbooks published from this site on one side and many many redbook residency leaders on the other side.
The Redbooks library and current ITSO residents. ( See if you can spot me ...)
Quotable Quote: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." –- Aristotle
Monday, September 03, 2007
Quotable Quote: Never Rest on your laurels. Keep challenging yourself. Keep raising the bar and keep reaching new heights.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Accepted for IBM redbook residency
I will be doing a 6 week IBM redbook residency in Poughkeepsie, NY for updating the existing Websphere for Z/OS Connectivity handbook from Sep 4th to Oct 5th. This will provide an excellent learning opportunity. IBM Redbooks are developed through a unique residency program that teams IBM technical professionals with Business Partners, clients, and IBM product development staff. Depending on the market needs of a product or solution, a team of residents is chosen through a competitive nomination process and works at one of the IBM centers for two to eight weeks, devoted to developing IBM Redbooks.
Quotable Quote: You'll never have all the information you need to make a decision. If you did, it would be a foregone conclusion, not a decision” - David Mahoney
Quotable Quote: You'll never have all the information you need to make a decision. If you did, it would be a foregone conclusion, not a decision” - David Mahoney
Monday, July 09, 2007
In our initial round, we played against teams from Hickory, Durham and Winston Salem. Lost to Winston Salem in a close match ( 2-3). Here is article about our team: http://www.ncadultleaguetennis.com/pdffiles/DayThreeStory.pdf
Friday, June 29, 2007
Lake Norman USTA local league champion team
Was proud to be part of the Lake Norman USTA local league champion team. Our team won with a record 12-0 played at state championships at Pinehurst scheduled for 7/4,7/5 and 7/6.
here is my record:
here is my record:
| NORTH CAROLINA | 2007 Lake USTA League Adult | |||
| Match Date | Winning Player | Opponent | Score | Match Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3/8/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | Kevin Fontana | 6-1, 4-6, 1-0 | #2 Singles |
| 3/13/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | Chip Aprile | 6-1, 6-1 | #2 Singles |
| 3/20/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | David W. Stewart | 6-4, 6-0 | #2 Singles |
| 3/22/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | Paul M. Begley | 6-3, 6-3 | #2 Singles |
| 4/12/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | Default | 6-0, 6-0 | #2 Singles |
| 4/24/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | David J. Walton | 6-1, 6-1 | #1 Singles |
| 4/26/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | Jacob Lee Henault | 7-6, 7-6 | #1 Singles |
| 5/1/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | Default | 6-0, 6-0 | #2 Singles |
| 5/10/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam Sanjeev Dange | Michael Baldelli Dale Kiel | 6-1, 6-3 | #3 Doubles |
| 5/24/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam Sanjeev Dange | Bob Santoli Rusty Pittman | 6-3, 6-0 | #3 Doubles |
| 5/31/2007 | Karthik Shanmugam | Dominique Falewee | 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 | #2 Singles |
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Developer tasks
Talk to customers and figure out requirements.
Define system architectures.
Create task estimates and help prioritize tasks.
Explore new technologies.
Brainstorm solutions when my team is stuck.
Make sure my team is running effectively.
Write code.
Define system architectures.
Create task estimates and help prioritize tasks.
Explore new technologies.
Brainstorm solutions when my team is stuck.
Make sure my team is running effectively.
Write code.
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