Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah 2009!

We're almost at the end of the year...so I just wanted to tell you...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY HANUKKAH AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

May this new year 2010 bring us happiness and professional success...may all our dreams and goals came true! -:D

Greetings,

Blag.

Citrify - Edit your photos a la AIR

Yesterday I was checking my friend Duane "Chaos" Nickull's page called Technoracle(a.k.a "Duane's World") and I found out that he was giving away 50 Free Citrify Licences of course...I took my chances and was gladly choose -:) I'm a Citrify user right now -;)

But...what's Citrify? It's an Adobe AIR based application used to edit your photos in a fun and easy way.


Choose a picture...


You can adjust Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Resize, Rotate and Sharpen.


You can use some Touchup with Airbrush, Blemish, Glare, Redeye, Toothbrush and Wrinkle.


Of course...don't forget about the Effects, you can use Halftone, Flashback, Watercolor, Hulkify, Obamify, Sepia, Black & White and Pencil sketch.


Playing along with effects and adjustments, you can make some weird looking pics like this one -:)

I really recommend this piece of software...easy to use, build on Adobe AIR...what else can you ask for?

Greetings,

Blag.

ChessJam - Online chess

I must admit that I'm really bad at Chess...but it doesn't mean I don't like it -;)
So, when I was browsing my RSS Reader, I found ChessJam.

ChessJam is a pretty neat application build on Adobe Flex and ColdFusion running on Adobe AIR.

But you might be asking...what's the big buzz about a Chess game? Easy...you can play against bots or against people from all around the world...chat included...to me...that's awesome -:)


We have to create an account and then log-in.


We can choose to play a single game or chat and challenge other players....


We can choose varios types of games (Depending on the game time play) or enter a Tournament.


We have plenty of room to choose if the want to play against a bot or another human being.


We can choose between a nice 3D look...


or a nice 2D classic view...


When you sign up...you must give out your Country of residence...so the system could run some nice statistics.

So...why don't you give this game a chance? Play it...enjoy it and pass it along -;)

Greetings,

Blag.

My name is Blag...and I'm an eGhead...

Which means that I'm an Enterprise Geeks follower -;)


Greetings,

Blag.

Being an SAP Mentor in Lima, Perú...

Ok...the story goes like this...quite time ago I got invited to SAP World Tour in Lima, Perú. So, as I was still and Abaper I asked by boss for permission to go to the event. He pass the invitation link to the Sales Manager who invited 7 more people. I realize that when I get to the event.

So, after that I get contacted by SAP Perú telling me that we took to many slots...even when they told the Sales Manager to take only 2 or 3 max (counting me of course)...

Anyway...some time later I got invited to an SAP Business Objects event...and I was told to not invite anyone else, so I went to event alone.

Last Monday I got a new invitation for SAP BUSINESS PROCESS PLATFORM DAY 2009, which I thought was some sort of a public event like the SAP World Tour...so I registered myself, pass the link to my boss and one more for my colleague on the Sales Team. Just the 3 of us, like they told me before.

Two days later I got a message from SAP Perú telling me that I was making the same mistake again, that we were taking slots from customers, that I was putting in risk my relation with SAP Perú and so on...

Now put some things in perspective...

1.- I'm making the same mistake again? First time wasn't my fault...It was the Sales Manager fault...I got nothing to do with that particular problem...

2.- Are we taking slots from customers? They assumed that we're going to take 7 or 8 slots again...we were going to take 3 max (including me) as they told me...but they even bother to ask me...they just prove me guilty without hearing my complains first.

3.- I put in risk my relation with SAP Perú? Ok...so what relation? They had never thread like they should considering who I am inside the Community.

So...taking things from the 3rd point...I know that no one is prophet in his own land...but this is kinda lame...I mean...if you compare how SAP USA and SAP Perú thread me...then you could start thinking like me...I'm an SAP Mentor (Only me on Perú, only 3 on South America), SAP Blogger, Top Contributor and many more. But that doesn't seems to be enough for SAP Perú...I know that here is this forgot by God land, the SAP Office is mostly for Marketing and Sales related stuff...but if you stop to think about it...having an SAP Mentor between the audience could really improve things, right? We are SAP chosen experts...SAP rock stars...still...seems to be not enough for this country...

Now...back to the 2nd point...as they assume we were going to fill all the slots...they canceled my Boss and colleague's registries...but what about mine? Do they cancel my registry as well? After that I send them a message asking if I could still go or not...as expected...no one answered me...and surely no one will...so I missing the event just because of that...don't you think it's too much? Couldn't they just cancel the extra registries and keep mine? why punish me for my first honest mistake? Too bad don't you think?

Ok...I know that if someone from SAP Perú read this post...my relation with them is going to get completely broken...but should I care? what's wrong about broken a relation that is 10% worthy?...if I got a got a 110% good relation with SAP USA, do I really need a relation with SAP Perú? I think not...I just got bad things from them since the beginning...

P.S: To my SAP Mentor Boss...Mark, please don't call them or mail them...they just not worthy...if they want to ditch their relation with the only SAP Mentor available here...it's their problem...don't spend you time with people who just doesn't deserve it...

Greetings,

Blag.

The Blag Show Limited Podcast Edition 3, 4 and 5

I got some problems with uploading...so I'm going to put the files so you can download them and listen later -;)

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Greetings,

Blag.

The Blag Show - Limited Podcast Edition 02

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Blag.

The Blag Show - Limited Podcast Edition 01

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Blag.

My evil plans for SAP TechEd Phoenix 2009

We're only 4 days away from TechEd...and I was planning to inform about my evil plan this Saturday...but couldn't resist -;)

If you follow my blogs on SCN you might know that on my first TechEd (Las Vegas 2007) I wrote one blog per day...a very difficult task of course, so in my second TechEd (Las Vegas 2008) I wrote a "in a nutshell" blog, summarizing all that happened there...this year, it's going to be my third TechEd...so I want to do something different from last year...I want to share even more! -:D

So...my evil plans are this:

*"The Blag Show - Limited Edition Podcast" to be launched this Saturday...and one per day...

* A short blog per day on SCN.

* Video Blogging, mostly on RIA Hacker Night and Community Clubhouse.

* Blagbert comics about TechEd funny situations. Yes...Blagbert is going to TechEd too -;)

* Twitter stream for sure -;)

* Assist @jspath55 giving out @SCNotties awards.


A Gapinvoid comic strip kindly send to me by Mrinal Wadhwa (@mrinal)

Greetings,

Blag.

uCertify - Certifications made easy...

Have you ever took a Certification Exam? If you do, did you pass it? It was easy for you? Or if you haven't...you think it was too hard? You didn't have enough time to study?

Well...with uCertify there aren't more excuses.

uCertify brings you a powerful software used as a training and exam simulation, so you can study and took exams to prepare yourself for the big challenge.

I'm currently evaluating this course BH0-006 – ISEB ITIL Foundation v.3 Practice Test


The contents are separated into themes and definitions, which makes it even easier to learn and remember.


When you took test, you can a history showing how many times the exam has been taken, what score you achieve and more interesting information. (I'm still learning so you're not going to find anything on my History List)...


uCertify provides a lot of packages for certifications and even discounts on list prices, which make them even more interesting to try and buy.




Enough said, uCertify brings certifications to your home...you must only study, took the exams and get more than ready for the real thing.

Disclaimer: This blog is based on my own personal thoughts and experiences.

Greetings,

Blag.