Monday June 07, 2004 Stepping out into the great unknown
I have been looking into blogging since Tim Bray published his entry on putting together a Sun policy on blogging. Now that blogs.sun.com has been setup, I am jumping into these waters with both feet.
I guess I should probably introduce myself. On the professional side, I am a software developer here at Sun, mainly working on internal tools that deal with account management. These tools are used to generate reports that are then presented to the different accounts, integrate multiple pre-emptive services tools together and hopefully one day become the foundation of how Sun manages accounts and how Sun associates systems to the account.
One of the most challenging aspect of my work involves integrating applications written in multiple languages (Java and Perl mostly). It is not so much the technical aspects (SOAP makes it a lot easier than it was before), but the communications, influencing and negotiating aspects that interest me more. I am really pushing stepping away from what I call "integrating through databases" and pushing services as the integration point. I usually roll them out as both SOAP and RMI.
Other projects that I have worked within Sun involves a tool that keeps track of our contract booking backlog, a hold time and other call center related stats portal as well as a notification tool.
On the personal side, I am still a newly wed. I got married more than 6 months ago to a wonderful woman called Mollie (Pictures are available at http://fredjean.homeip.net:8080/gallery . Please be kind to my poor broadband link and old PII home web server). It was such a beautiful day :)
Here are a few things that I will probably discuss on this blog:
- Java (of course)
- Home networking
- Teleworking
- Cool things that happen to me.
I'm looking forward to see where this leads. It will probably be an interesting journey!
-- Fred
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