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My first 2 weeks as a self-employed consultant

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I started as self-employed full-time consultant on October 18 – and today the first 2 weeks has passed. So how did they go?

I have started working on my first XPages project for my first client. The project is currently in the design and early implementation phase and I have therefore been to a design workshop with Supermouse who is responsible for the information architecture and UI design. I find it very interesting to learn more about XPages and to apply it to a real project.

I was invited as special guest to IBM Hackday 8 at IBM in Copenhagen. It was a fun day with a lot of mobile app discussions including looking at Titanium Appcelerator and how it can be used to develop iPhone and Android applications.

I went to my first all-day Notesnet.dk monthly meeting – and it was nice to meet many of the Notesnet.dk members. I hope to have the opportunity to work with some of my Notesnet.dk colleagues someday on shared projects.

I took part in the recording of episode 24 for one of my favorite podcasts: This Week in Lotus. It was great fun to record the podcast together with Stuart McIntyre, Darren Duke and Joyce Davis.

All in all, I have enjoyed the first 2 weeks as self-employed consultant at PHL Consult.

IBM HackDay6 is today

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Today we had the internal IBM HackDay event for the 6th time and I was part of the group that arranged the local hackday event in Denmark for the third time. I am proud to say that it was my accomplishment that the first local IBM hackday event was held in Denmark in October 2007.

At todays local event we were 10 participants discussing ideas and coming up with hacks to continue with at todays event. The WW event is at 283 projects with 371 participants.

I did some 30 minutes Lotus Notes to Excel hacking to get in the spirit – and then started a discussion on how to achieve better adoption of social software and social media within IBM Denmark. Karl Roche is currently in Denmark and took part in our local event and therefore also in this discussion on social software.

Check out all the pictures from todays event in the Flickr IBM Hackday Pool and my pictures from our local event.

Update: Mary Beth Raven blogs about the Lotus contest part of HackDay6.

October 26 was IBM HackDay(+4)

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This friday was IBM HackDay(+4) – and I arranged a local event in Denmark. We were 15 participants who generated lots of ideas for hacks of which 5 so far have been registered for the HackDay competition. Unfortunately I took no pictures unlike others.

Kelly and Andy have more from the local events in Lexington, US and Hursley, UK – and Dale even has an explanation on what HackDay is. By the way, Kelly helped launch IBM’s first HackDay.

Looking forward to HackDay(+5)!