Sorry for being a bit lazy and non posting lately. It’s been  busy time for me and finally I thought I should follow up and post something useful.

I joined another company that uses Vmware for all test environments, including Linux and Windows OS. It’s pretty neat virtualization software – you can install new nodes without sitting near the console in a cold data center room and it fully supports Windows 2003 and Windows XP. We have been running Suse Enterprise versions on it using Oracle DB and so far so good.

The only drawback of using virtual private servers… Read the rest of this entry »

Working smart really translates to using your time well to gain the best results.

Clearly using time poorly will result in poor or no results, but that really is how many of us tackle our daily workload. Procrastination often eats up the time needed to do a proper job. Then the deadline nears and we dash something out, which is often of poor quality and has so many errors that is needs to be redone and it becomes the task for the following work day. Do you want to break this cycle?

Time management is the key to an efficient… Read the rest of this entry »