Dr. Q's Workshop

I have been traveling to NYC over the last two weeks to help a consulting firm to build a web site for little kids. Yeah…They use Alfresco. It has been fun so far to be able to see how people actually use Alfresco in the real project.

Having been working at home for the last eight months, I feel quite excited to be back to the cubical world. Or..maybe just for a few days. Plus, instead of messing up with sales people, now I have chances to work with developers and project managers. Well…they are quite different. They take me to all wonderful sandwich shops around their office for lunch. Last Thursday night, they even took me to a nice restaurant for dinner. It is actually a chocolate bar. The food is nice and the hot chocolate is real…hot melted chocolate.

Now back to “Alfresco on Train”. I have been taking trains back and force between Boston and New York City. Taking train is much better experience than going through Logan and JFC which might be among the worst airports in the world.

It is about 3 and half hours ride. The train is clean and spacious. Generally, I would take a nap, listen to music and sometimes talk to strangers. But now I have put “Start to write blog” as my quarterly MBO. I figure I really need to find something to write so that I could meet my MBO and Matt would pay me all bonus and I could buy more toys for my daughter.

So it is important now. After searching through my soul, I do have all a lot to say about Alfresco, Open Source, IT and life in general. But I guess to keep it interesting, I need to write about something I am familiar with…Yeah…the Alfresco product.

One of my favorite TV show is “Top Chef” even I only watched one episode so far. The competition they had was to cook a dish in two hours using selected meats. Maybe I can do the similar thing, I can start my own little “Alfresco on Train” project on the train.

I will use the three and a half hour on the train and use the latest version of Alfresco plus some other open source software to build a “dish”.

Then what I am going to build? It must be something interesting, unique, useless and can keep my blog going for a while.

I then had an idea of the game of Sudoku. I have been playing that puzzle game for a while and I really like it.

Ok…Let’s get started.