Now that I am done with all the tasks except Vertical Clustering which I would be starting the next week, I need to do all the documentation stuff too. Documentation is the most boring job on earth that a consultant has to do! :(
Anyways, after the LDAP, I have nothing on my plate till Monday. Sitting in the office, seeing all blondes around is boring! After every hour, I just move out of the office and roam around for an hour and then return back to my seat.
God! These two and half months i.e 84 days to be precise passed off quickly but these 7 days are too long. I could see that every second is taking 10 times than usual to pass. Atleast when I am in the office time passes off in its normal speed but when I enter the room, time just stops until I forcefully push it for the next second! :(
Anyways, this weekend I would be completing the Brisbane too, by seeing the Australian zoo! Though, I might not find time to go to this place, coz I have to buy some gifts for mom and dad, but I am positive. If I finish this shopping thing early, I might go to Australian Zoo as well.
What increases my urge to reach INDIA soon, is when mom calls me and says that its been 3 months that she hasn’t seen me in a sad voice. She had already planned for all the mouth watering food that I like and all the places that we got visit when I reach back home!!!!!!!
Friday, May 23, 2008
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Never felt better
Today, I have not only implemented the Single Active Directory environment but also implemented the double barrel Authentication with LDAP!!!
From past two days, I was banging my head to just configure SABA with single active directory and today I am done with the double as well. Though implementing the double barrel LDAP took a lot of debugging and googling for the exception, but I must admit that I got rid of that exception in a fluke. Before doing some long steps of mailing on technical communites and all, I reluctantly tried few api's and phew!!! as a magic even the double barrel LDAP started working!!!!
The most fruitful day in terms of technology as well as result!
LDAP was the only barrier for us to meet the deadline and now I am left only with implemeting Vertical Clustering on the production environment!!
The deadline of the project was 26th, but as the requirement grew it has been pushed 2 weeks further. But I am not concerned for the deadline anymore as I have completed all the tasks which were assigned to me!
From past two days, I was banging my head to just configure SABA with single active directory and today I am done with the double as well. Though implementing the double barrel LDAP took a lot of debugging and googling for the exception, but I must admit that I got rid of that exception in a fluke. Before doing some long steps of mailing on technical communites and all, I reluctantly tried few api's and phew!!! as a magic even the double barrel LDAP started working!!!!
The most fruitful day in terms of technology as well as result!
LDAP was the only barrier for us to meet the deadline and now I am left only with implemeting Vertical Clustering on the production environment!!
The deadline of the project was 26th, but as the requirement grew it has been pushed 2 weeks further. But I am not concerned for the deadline anymore as I have completed all the tasks which were assigned to me!
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
14 days left
I have two weekends left now. And I have SeaWorld, Australian Zoo and Garden city left undiscovered in brisbane. Apart from these places, I need to go for shopping too.
On the project front still LDAP, Vertical Clustering and Certifications is left.
Got to plan to be able to do justice with project as well as my trip! :)
Now adays on the confrence call where I have much to say about the client, the project status and other stuff, it feels good unlike when in INDIA I used to just complete my status in two line with the status of project.
Feeling very excited about returning back to my place and meeting my family and friends. The importance of friends and family has increased to a much greater extent in my life with this trip.
On the project front still LDAP, Vertical Clustering and Certifications is left.
Got to plan to be able to do justice with project as well as my trip! :)
Now adays on the confrence call where I have much to say about the client, the project status and other stuff, it feels good unlike when in INDIA I used to just complete my status in two line with the status of project.
Feeling very excited about returning back to my place and meeting my family and friends. The importance of friends and family has increased to a much greater extent in my life with this trip.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
20days left
It’s surprising that I have spent 70 days in Australia now! Anyways, I have a counter as wallpaper on the laptop which reminds me that I should start completing the shopping list and also squeeze the most out of the available time.
When Prashant was leaving for INDIA, he was very sad and dull. His ways on the last day were so depressing that I thought he will weep in the next moment. He had a reason to feel so; he came with a bunch of friends here. Even, I had some good time till these Indians were around. Anyways, I am already adapted to loneliness now so I have no issues for the rest of 20 days.
To my surprise, I am not feeling bored anymore. I don’t find time to get bored. I surf, wash clothes, cook, roam around in the city, discover new places etc. To kill the time, I sometime start designing my website on google pages or go for swimming or stay in the gym. At least I have understood the adaptive nature of human being by this! ;)
When Prashant was leaving for INDIA, he was very sad and dull. His ways on the last day were so depressing that I thought he will weep in the next moment. He had a reason to feel so; he came with a bunch of friends here. Even, I had some good time till these Indians were around. Anyways, I am already adapted to loneliness now so I have no issues for the rest of 20 days.
To my surprise, I am not feeling bored anymore. I don’t find time to get bored. I surf, wash clothes, cook, roam around in the city, discover new places etc. To kill the time, I sometime start designing my website on google pages or go for swimming or stay in the gym. At least I have understood the adaptive nature of human being by this! ;)
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Again a great weekend!
Two days back, I met an INDIAN. He arrived in Brisbane two weeks back. I needed a company for the weekend, so I made a plan with him. This time I planned all the places that I missed in my previous trips.
We visited Burleigh beach, Surfers Paradise etc. Surfers Paradise was an awesome place. We were lucky to find lots of tourist there. We had a quality time in the beach, in the malls and in the casinos. And surprise was not the fact that I met lots of Indians on the trip but the fact that they all were friendly. Few also became our guide for sometime and showed us some places which we could not have discovered on our own.
As the day was coming to an end, we went to our last stop, South Bank. Again we strike gold, coz on South bank there was some big Fireworks show organized by the government of Queensland. The Fireworks was not as good as we see in INDIA, but were at least lot colourful. After the firework we took a ferry and came straight to our room.
At night we had Poha, prepared by my neighbour. Must say, he was a good cook. I noted the way to prepare the dish, so I could prepare it myself later.
In all, the weekend was great!!
We visited Burleigh beach, Surfers Paradise etc. Surfers Paradise was an awesome place. We were lucky to find lots of tourist there. We had a quality time in the beach, in the malls and in the casinos. And surprise was not the fact that I met lots of Indians on the trip but the fact that they all were friendly. Few also became our guide for sometime and showed us some places which we could not have discovered on our own.
As the day was coming to an end, we went to our last stop, South Bank. Again we strike gold, coz on South bank there was some big Fireworks show organized by the government of Queensland. The Fireworks was not as good as we see in INDIA, but were at least lot colourful. After the firework we took a ferry and came straight to our room.
At night we had Poha, prepared by my neighbour. Must say, he was a good cook. I noted the way to prepare the dish, so I could prepare it myself later.
In all, the weekend was great!!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Updates on Project till date
With the client being very slow in providing the production hardware details, at least I have completed with the setting up of development environment. This development hardware has sites for config, demo, dev and uat. So installation as far as development, UAT and Config is concerned, is 100% complete, though very minor configurations like LDAP is still left. I have also finished up with the scripts for data migration as well. So currently I just see that all the data is migrated properly and my code is working fine on the data files provided by the client.
Next big task would to create a Production environment on the cluster. This would be my first clustered environment and I hope I would be able to do it. Project manager needs us to configure LDAP with a two barrel kind of environment. I haven’t touched the code of LDAP yet, got to see if I would be able to finish up in time.
With respect to project plan, we have very little time left and a big mountain to be crushed.
Next big task would to create a Production environment on the cluster. This would be my first clustered environment and I hope I would be able to do it. Project manager needs us to configure LDAP with a two barrel kind of environment. I haven’t touched the code of LDAP yet, got to see if I would be able to finish up in time.
With respect to project plan, we have very little time left and a big mountain to be crushed.
Life is routine these days
First day of the week would be to clean up all the tasks and complete all the unfinished. So, it is more of a clerical job like, checking-in the code in CVS, updating the progress of project to the project manager and attending weekly meeting with the client to update him and take updates from him.
Second day starts with the new tasks like migrating data for a new object, refreshing the database and getting new requirements from both business consultant of our team and analysts of client. Then we plan for the rest of the week.
Third and fourth day goes with troubleshooting all the failed test cases reported by client and the team. These two days are real frustrating to resolve the issues. But by the end of the day when we finish troubleshooting and resolving the issue, we feel real great. These two days are more like research on the web and improving self knowledge w.r.t to project and general.
Fifth day is always dull, coz I don’t like to work and so I take off by surfing the net or bidding on ebay. I surf for the maps and places that I can visit for the weekend. I take a complete idea of buses, trains or ferries that I am supposed to board.
On Saturday, the day just passes off! I finish up with the clothes and then press them for rest of the week. I feel the day is very short on Saturday, coz by the time you complete all the tasks it is already 6pm and then I just go to the riverside to sit for a while, watching birds and reading the nature.
Sunday is always fun, as I execute all the plans that I made for visiting new places. Though I do feel loneliness, but the excitement of discovering new place on our own gives a very little time to think.
It feels good when sis calls me sometimes and shows how much she cares for me. I feel a lot lighter that day after sharing each others experiences. Not to forget the calls from my Btech friend Shiva and from colleagues.
On the whole, the week is moving on a routine. Now I feel bored going to the beaches or theme parks. So instead I am slowly moving towards the malls and streets to see the actual lifestyle of people of Australia.
But as the deadline is approaching, I could feel the heat and pressure of project. I am happy that I have utilized my time enough so I can use my time from now on to concentrate more on finishing the project on time. Though the client is stubborn with the Go-live date of the project, but with only me doing the technical stuff of it, I will have to work hard and fast to complete it on time.
Second day starts with the new tasks like migrating data for a new object, refreshing the database and getting new requirements from both business consultant of our team and analysts of client. Then we plan for the rest of the week.
Third and fourth day goes with troubleshooting all the failed test cases reported by client and the team. These two days are real frustrating to resolve the issues. But by the end of the day when we finish troubleshooting and resolving the issue, we feel real great. These two days are more like research on the web and improving self knowledge w.r.t to project and general.
Fifth day is always dull, coz I don’t like to work and so I take off by surfing the net or bidding on ebay. I surf for the maps and places that I can visit for the weekend. I take a complete idea of buses, trains or ferries that I am supposed to board.
On Saturday, the day just passes off! I finish up with the clothes and then press them for rest of the week. I feel the day is very short on Saturday, coz by the time you complete all the tasks it is already 6pm and then I just go to the riverside to sit for a while, watching birds and reading the nature.
Sunday is always fun, as I execute all the plans that I made for visiting new places. Though I do feel loneliness, but the excitement of discovering new place on our own gives a very little time to think.
It feels good when sis calls me sometimes and shows how much she cares for me. I feel a lot lighter that day after sharing each others experiences. Not to forget the calls from my Btech friend Shiva and from colleagues.
On the whole, the week is moving on a routine. Now I feel bored going to the beaches or theme parks. So instead I am slowly moving towards the malls and streets to see the actual lifestyle of people of Australia.
But as the deadline is approaching, I could feel the heat and pressure of project. I am happy that I have utilized my time enough so I can use my time from now on to concentrate more on finishing the project on time. Though the client is stubborn with the Go-live date of the project, but with only me doing the technical stuff of it, I will have to work hard and fast to complete it on time.
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