My House Inauguration

My house Inauguration function happened yesterday. We started building the house in the month of January. I missed this function. Yesterday I called my parents and relatives. It's nice talking to my relatives after a long time. I am eager to see my house. I've taken ICICI bank loan and helped my father in building house. I felt very happy helping my father financially in the right time .I have given treat to my colleagues in Malaysia. After lunch we went for shopping. I bought Konica 5.0 megapixel camera.

My Laptop

My Laptop is DELL brand. Here in Malaysia there is no duty on Laptops. Here it is some what cheep.
Configuration :
Dell Inspiron(TM) 6000 Intel(R) Pentium(R)M 740/750 Notebook
1.73 GHz, 2MB Cache, 533 MHz FSB
Integrated 10/100 Fast Ethernet
Artic Silver with Alpine White accents black base
Integrated Stereo Sound
15.4" Ultrasharp(TM) Wide Screen XGA TFT Display resolution: 1280x800Dell(TM)
Wireless 350 Bluetooth Module 1Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g 54Mbps
512MB (1 X 512MB) 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Internal Dell(TM) 87 Keys Keyboard (English)
Dell(TM) Optical USB Mouse
80GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
Windows(R) XP Home EditionInternal
8X DVD+/-RW Combination Drive with dual layer write capabilities
Internal 56K Modem6-Cell 53Whr Lithium Ion Primary Battery

My visit to Penang hill...

The hill, also known as Bukit Bendera, is 830 meter high (2,750 foot) and it's much cooler than in the city below. We can climb hill by train. The funicular railway will not take straight to the top, We have to change trains halfway .In the meantime we will pass several small station, where the local people get off. There are are also some small hotels and guesthouses on this stretch. The railway was built in 1923 and it takes about half an hour to the top. The climate here is too greenery and cool.
I visted Penang hill with my friend Gurdeep singh.

My Apartment at Penang

Now we shifted to a different apartment. Days are going smoothly. Five guys left after production. Now we are five guys here. October first week is my tentative week of leaving Malaysia.

My Apartment Pics :








We are at 11 th floor.

I am at home

Main hall










Kitchen













From Window view

Night View

Production Switch Over .....

We planned production system will shutdown at 7.00 AM. By 1.00 AM (next day) upgrade to new environment should be completed. Manufacturing team will test till 5.00 am. No issues by this time then we will release the upgraded system .If at all any issues we will revert back the system.
Production system is down at 7.15 AM. We started working. It is really challenging for our team to meet the time lines.
This is first project for me working at onsite while the production switch over is going on. For HCL this one is a first of its kind project. HCL before never handled this kind of projects.
The first activity to my module is to upgrade the OS. Next activity is installation of oracle client. In production server CD-ROM is started giving problems. We tried to ftp oracle client from development environment. But development system is a half-duplex system, so ftp is very slow. We changed the CD-ROM hardware and installed oracle server. Due to this problem we are 2 hours behind the schedule. After that everything went on smoothly. By 4.00 PM we completed all checks and our team declared that our modules are fine and ready to go.
After that I had done some front-end activities to upgrade database. My last activity started at 9.00 PM. Basically we need to install XML in four servers. In my testing environment I have written a script and it is running successfully. In Development we have cc compiler. But in the production servers we didn't have cc compiler and we have gcc compiler. When I run the script it showing compilation error. I told client PM we need a cc compiler. He told that cc is licensed software. We can't run trial version in production and asked me run with gcc compiler by changing the options. I changed the Makefiles and tried. But still problem is remained. I tried several options. Client PM told me previously DBA installed this software and check with him. Now he time is 10.30 PM. We need to release the hole system by 01.00 AM for production testing. I worked with DBA. He also got same errors like me. Now the time is already 1.00 am and it is released. Our Installation is not a showstopper for basic testing. Production people stated testing. But we should done at least by 3.00 AM. After that we need to test this one. According to our plan if any problem occurs by 5.00 PM which is potential show stopper in the new system we need to revert back the whole system. Then we tried with lower version of gcc compiler. It is able to compile some files. We run the applications. Thank god now it is responding. We installed all four servers by 2.30 PM. From manufacturing people there are no issues till 5.00 AM.
We released the system for production at 7.00 PM. Now it is in live. As of this time there are no major issues except some database synchronization issues. After 34 hours I return back to room.
I got fever so I have taken rest. Now I came back to office. Ever thing is going fine. Client is very happy about the performance of the system. Many mails are threading up to congratulate us. We got succeed. Personally I got some good quotes from my project manager. I learnt a lot form this project.