Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 19, 2004 by qtzar

I’m off on my travels again and heading off to Pittsburgh once more, this time for Thanksgiving. This will be my first Thanksgiving in the USA and I’m really looking forward to the trip. This will be my third time in Pittsburgh this year and with the strong Euro and weak dollar it will be a perfect time to get the christmas present shopping done.

I’ll also be heading to my first American Football game on the 28th to watch the Steelers play the RedSkins at Heinz Field. I’ve been following the Steelers all season and at the moment they are doing great, winning 8 out of their 9 games so far and breaking a few winning streaks for the other teams. I’m looking forward to actually being at a game, now if only somebody could expalin the rules to us Europeans …

Another first on this trip will be the new border measures that were put into effect for visa waiver countries on the 1st Sept this year. With inkless finger printing and digital mugshots I suspect the processing time at the border is going to be much longer then usual. I’ve no problem with the new measures that are in place but I have heard of people complaining. If you have nothing to hide and it makes air travel safer then I’ll put up with the inconvienience.

So have a great Thanksgiving week ye’all

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Successful Presentation Tips

Posted on November 19, 2004 by qtzar

Only a few more months till Lotusphere and I’m sure that many of you will be there to enjoy the Ceol Agus Craic ( Music and Fun for those that don’t speak Irish ) but more importantly you will be there to learn as much as possible from the presentations.

Ben posted a little while ago asking what makes a good speaker but another important thing to consider if presenting is what makes a good presentation.  While surfing around today I came across this blog entry that has a load of great tips.

Have you any more tips you’d like to suggest.  I’m sure all the people who submitted abstracts for Lotusphere and are now waiting to hear if they made the cut will appreciate them.

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CertFX offers FREE R5 tests

Posted on November 8, 2004 by qtzar

With R5 certification exams due to be retired at the end of  November CertFX have decided to offer a number of their Release 5 practice tests for FREE.

Yep, that’s right FREE.  So even if your not planning on taking the exams this is a great chance to get to see what the practice tests from CertFX look like and if you are planning on taking the exams then hurry on over to the site and get your hands on these now…

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Replication Formulas and Clusters

Posted on November 3, 2004 by qtzar

For the record :

Replication formulas have no effect on cluster replication. If you create a document in a clustered database then that document will be replicated out to the other members of the cluster even if a replication formula exists on the database that would normally exclude the document from replication.

When the database is then replicated using standard scheduled replication the replication formula will kick in and any documents that should not exist in the other replicated databases will be removed.

So if your using a combination of clusters and replication formulas then remember that incorrect documents will exist in the clustered databases and that you should run a very regular scheduled replication.

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