Work

Items of relevance to my work for a company in Edinburgh providing solutions to the Finance Industry.

They have canned the rest of Jupiter

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After the deafening silence at the PDC in LA with regards to the ebiz servers (I had to make do with the limited BizTalk sessions) we have the announcement that the Discovery part (i.e. the second bit, as opposed to Voyager the first bit) has been grounded.

This is mentioned by both Spencer Harbar and Mark Harrison in their respective sites, so go there and take a look. Take note of the extra comment by Mark, useful extra info bearing in mind his role as a Systems Engineering dude at Microsoft.

Working in Glasgow today

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I had the occasion to visit the other big city in Scotland today doing a bit of support work on a web app.

Got up early, travelled through to the city centre and popped in to Easy Internet Cafe for a cup of coffee and a read of my work email using the excellent web access tools provided with Exchange Server 2003. Of course, Cedalion have a real smart team who can design and implement the same thing for you.

I have been through to Glasgow a few times and have almost got my head around the Costa Coffee arrangement at the Glasgow branch of EasyInternet whereby you ask for your latté to go in order to carry it across to the web terminals.

“Are you drinking in or taking away?” , Alistair says “Er, actually taking away to go over there..”.

It must be me. I manage to make this really awkward.

AlistairL now has a blog

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With a number of people that I know having blogs, I thought it time to get in on the act myself. As you may or may not know, I am a Managing Consultant in the Financial Industry group of a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Scotland.

I cover a number of areas, but things these days see me doing lots of work with SQL Server with a dash of Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal server thrown in.