6:15am (Argentina Time) – Day 17, This Timezone thing is killing me, I’m so confused I don’t know what time it is anymore. We Left New Zealand on Monday the 22nd at 5pm (NZ time) and after 13.5h of flying and 1.5h of layover in Santiago, Chile we arrived in Buenos Aires get that at the same time on the 22nd (Argentina Time). Talk about Back to the Future ;-).
We were supposed to fly from Wellington to Aukland and then to Santiago but decided instead to road trip from Wellington to Auckland, So our adventure took us throught most of the North island where we saw beautiful nature vistas. We also stayed one night in Rotorua and went to a Mauri cultural experience diner (that was really cool).
The team from NZ really enjoyed our talks and had a ton of good questions and suggestions. Team System is such a big product it’s hard to do it justice in three days. I also created a local TFS server for them and had a interesting experience to share. So after installing everything in a VM I figured that the 16G limit on the hard drive would not cut it for their need so I decided to move the database files to another VHD created using VS2005R2 which was 100G in size. What’s a guy to do then to move the database over, well I unattached them using Sql NaServer Management Studio, moved them and reattached them. I had to stop IIS, and Reporting Services, TFS Sceduling Service before doing that but it worked out fine. Now there is more room to grow on.
Navigate here to see a few photos from NZ.
Yesterday was Day 1 Execs and Project Manager, this is the selling day for us at each location, we need to get the buyoff of Execs and PMs and explain the big picture of TFS I think this when pretty well.
Today we are on the Day 2 schedule this is the Developer Day and should be a blast it always is, Devs love VSTS there is not a lot of selling to do ;-). I’ll tell you though, hearing Spanish all the time here is very interesting, French is my first language and hearing it all the time in Montreal or Paris is no sweat, English is my second language and here it around the world is no sweat even the British or NZ accent are fine, we get used to it. But Spanish well I don’t know that at all, it sound a bit like french for some words but that’s all. So for the first time on this trip and not the last I fell like a foreigner ;-).
Oh almost forgot after spending 17 days together we are still friends ;-). We now have nicknames, Aaron is “The Chief” because he became a Mauri Tribe Chief at our cultural experience diner in Rotorua, Wayne is “The Sandman” because he can fall asleep anywhere (Plane, Car, Hotel chair, etc) the guys just as no problem sleeping any place, any time, anywhere. Me well I go by ET all the time but I was rebaptised “The Frenchman” by Wayne, I wonder why…
Where in the world are the three amigos today, We are in Buenos Aires.
Cheers for now,
The Frenchman