The TDI LabJam in New York - March 15-16, 2006

Attendees (both clients and partners): Ascendant Technology, Children's Place, Citigroup, Erie 1 BOCES, Hannaford, KPMG, Legg Mason, Marriott, Marsh, MetLife, Prudential, McKinsey, Software Productivity, UBS and UNICEF

Challenge: How to provide value to some 40 IT pros with different backgrounds and perspectives, as well as varied levels of experience with TDI (from newbies to component developers) and their own expectations for take-aways?

We began the 2-Day event by looking at the architecture and basic building blocks of the system. The lab work and lecture progressed through feature sets, scenarios and recommended approaches to buidling various types of solutions. Everybody created, extended and debugged their own Configs, and even built components during the second day.

In addition to hands-on with TDI, diving into the inner workings of the toolkit, the high level of interactive participation turned what could have been a prescriptive, rote-reading of TDI instruction manuals into a lively Q&A marathon. We covered a host of topics, including high availability, scaling, security, complex XML, monitoring and best practices. We could easily have gone on for a whole week. [Oh, and I simplified the formula we talked about: TDI + MQ => HA + scaling + throughput -ed] Not to mention the sneak-preview of the upcoming 6.1 release which hits the streets this summer.

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The feedback we have gotten is great and tells us that there will be more Lab Jams to come.

Thanks again for everybody's time, patience and energy, and especially to IBM's own Flo Musalo for making it happen.

-- EddieHartman - 29 Mar 2006
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