Archive for June, 2006

Myers-Briggs

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality test designed to assist a person in identifying some significant personality preferences.
The result is giving in a 4-letter abbreviation. Managers or employees, everyone can use the test to (re-)position themselfs best in an organization.
You can found out what kind of type you are by completing [...]

Testing a new layout

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Time for some changes!
My blog is more than one year on-line now and besides a new header, the theme has been unchanged during that time.
I’m experimenting with a new Wordpress Theme now.
Status:
1. Wordpress upgrade = OK
2. Apply new theme = OK
3. Everything is working = Not OK (my JavaCam.class will [...]

Alternative to Citrix?

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

I’m currently working on e-Hosting projects in a banking environment that relies heavily on remote computing through a Citrix Presentation Server.
Very interesting work and as I always try to export infrastructure models to/for smaller companies, my search for cheaper alternatives to Citrix was activated.
Fairly quickly I found the alternative, a product that I’ve been [...]

Nice cartoon.

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

More of this on shellac.be

Z-Cron : A very complete scheduler for Windows

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Task Scheduling on Windows is not very flexible it you need to create special schedules (let’s say running a job every 2 hours).
Z-Cron can provide a solution here…
Z-Cron is a Scheduler – Task Planner that enables you to carry out tasks on your pc/server automatically and time-controlled.
Z-Cron is a central control centre for scheduling [...]

Change or Stagnate.

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Are you in career stagnation?
Ask yourself, are you feeling too comfortable in your job? This can be a key indicator of stagnation and career stall!
It’s good to take ownership and control over your future.
A lot can be gained by incremental improvements on a continual basis.
IT pros should assess their situation at least [...]

Calliope IP-PBX in the news

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Just received this copy of an article published in a Belgian IT Magazine.
I’m happy to see that our solution has the most possibilities!

How to create an effective (sales-)presentation

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

IT Engineers and Solution Architects are often asked to make a presentation on certain topics and, I can only speak for myself of course, creating a good presentation is not that easy.
I’ve found some time ago this useful document from the University of Florida on how to create an effective presentation.
Don’t expect the magical [...]

One for the gallery section

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

SkillTeam organizes each quarter a session where engineers and architects can share their knowledge, experiences, … with other collegues.
Last week there was such a session and afterwards we were invited to a BBQ !
I’ve uploaded some pictures….

That’s me (the one with the blue polo shirt). On the right you see Jurgen Berger, the [...]

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