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20060320 Monday March 20, 2006
Suntech days - Singapore
As usual bit late in blogging. Myself and Moinak went to Singapore on 22nd to attend Sun techdays.
We used this occasion to attend Singapore OpenSolaris User Group (actually they scheduled a talk for Moinak on BeleniX) and also meet few Product Techinical Support Engineers in Singapore.
22nd we had to go chennai and collect our passports and then catch the flight to Singapore.
As our program was finalized in the last moment, we didn't yet book tickets. Getting a flight to chennai was really tough that day. We asked the travel desk to block all the flights till 10:00PM (as our flight to Singapore is at 11:00 PM).We were lucky to get tickets in Jet Airways at 8:30PM. We reached in Chennai at around 9:00PM and collected passports from the agent.
Everything went well. We reached there at 5:00AM, singapore time (2:30hr ahead).
We had kill sometime (almost 5hrs) in the hotel lobby before we got rooms :(
we attended the User group meet at 7:30PM. Ed was giving a preso on zones by the time we reached there...then Moinak spoke on BeleniX. It was well recieved. We met a really cool guy from sales, Ivans, who drove us to an Indian restaurant. (yep I was a Veggy, so others also joined me). We spent chatting there for hours. By the time we reached our hotel room it was 1:00AM.
Next day (24th) is the Solaris track day. So I woke up early at 7:00AM and reached the seminar room at around 8:00AM. I didn't prepare slides for the preso, just used the slides which Peter gave me. I only changed the presenter's name :)
The techday event started with Barry Cooks preso. Edward gave a talk on SMF. We had one more guy from Russia, called Boris, from Studio development team. He presented Studio 11.
Afternoon was my session on Multi-threading, libumem, event ports. I used the slides given by Peter. I felt it would be better to show some Multi-threaded programs and do a live debug of an app for memory leaks and memory corruption using libumem, as most of it is difficult to understand with out a demo. As I know beforehand xterm has leaks, I used it to debug. I don't know how many got it right away, but I made it sure, they got the correct pointers to go back and refer later.
We ended the session with Peter's DTrace code camp.
Over all, there is a good response here.
Sunday we went to Santosa Islands. We enjoyed a lot over there. The under water tunnel, Dolphin show and finally the Musical fountains.

We reached back around 9:00PM.
Monday we went to Sun office. Met few PTS engineers. Returned back the same day (27th) night.

Mar 20 2006, 03:16:00 PM IST Permalink Comments [2]

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It was a pleasure having discussion with geeks like Ed, Moniak and you. Next time you are going to singapore again, just email me at e1@sun.com. My mobile is +65-9119-9226.
Cheers! e1, IT Architect, CSO.

Posted by iwan rahabok on March 20, 2006 at 04:36 PM IST #

Thanks Ivan. It was great meeting you there. Thanks for spending time with us.

Posted by sriram on March 20, 2006 at 05:09 PM IST #

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