May 2008 Archives

Well... I finally did it. I spent quite a long time procrastinating, an equally long time choosing a blogging platform, and an even longer time migrating all my posts and making sure the links were up to date.

And boy am I glad it's done.

There are still a few formatting issues to work out (expect changes at some point), but overall I'm happy with Movable Type and my own hosting.

The reason I went with my own site is I can now control my post format and I don't think publishing the blog via Oracle is going to gain me any more credibility or readership than I already have. Plus I am hoping I will never have to migrate posts again!

As I mentioned previously on this blog, I'm at  BEA Participate this week. In order to convince the powers that be to send me out here for free, I gave a presentation on Search Server. As usual, it was based on my initial lack of understanding of the product and subsequent painful discovery of its inner workings.

If you were here, I hope you enjoyed it. If you weren't, I'll try to write up a few detailed posts when I get some time. For now, here's a link to the slide deck.

As for the conference itself, my hat is off to all the BEA folk who pulled it off. It was great to see our customers, partners and BEA employees at the event. It was definitely a reminder of the large number of smart, and fun, people I have the pleasure of working with on a regular basis. And a special kudos to BDG, who pulled together a really slick portal for the conference.