Mirkeya's Blog - A bit of everything!

Applications for Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years are now available at http://bit.ly/6eM2la This is a great opportunity....

This a re-post from Lisa Crispin's blog. Great post ... everyone should read this. Take a look: http://www.editurl.com/51v

"Today, more and more development projects are using business process management systems (BPMSs) for a new generation of process applications. BPMSs generate a wide variety of artifacts, including Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 process models, which should be an input to your requirements elicitation process. This free webinar will demonstrate how IBM® Rational® Requirements Composer can be used with the ActiveVOS™ BPMS to provide a collaborative environment for using business process models in your requirements process. This webinar will be especially interesting to project teams looking for tools that will enhance the collaboration between business users and IT as a way of ensuring that new process applications achieve their objectives. " When: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Time: 12pm EST / 9am PST / 17:00 GMT To Register: http://www.editurl.com/50e Speakers: Michael Rowley Ph.D., CTO, Active Endpoints Andy Berner, Lead Architect for ISV Enablement and Str

Quality Assurance and More with HP Quality Center: A Case Study Featuring Lincoln Financial Date: Thursday, November 05, 2009 Time: 2:00 PM EST This Web seminar is by StickyMinds.com and Better Software magazine * Sponsoredby HP * "Hear how Lincoln Financial has been using HP's Quality Center to build standardization, reduce their business risk, and streamline their quality processes. Quality assurance and automation expert Tracy Ortgies and HP product manager Genefa Murphy will show you how they have been using HP Quality Center for managing the impact of change through a phased approach; integration of requirements, testing, and planning; building teams through standards and common language; and component flow reuse." Presenters: Tracy Ortgies, Quality Assurance and Automation Expert, Lincoln Financial Group. Genefa Murphy, Product Manager, HP Quality Center To register: http://www.sqe.com/go?WSHP110509

SQAforums is having a Webinar about a Gomez/Dollar Thrifty Web Performance Testing Case Study: Realistically load testing business-critical applications Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Time: 10AM PST / 1:00PM EST See content below: "Wondering how other organizations validate major redesign initiatives, or ensure readiness for their busiest season? Interested in learning how to load test your applications from an outside-in customer perspective, so you can find and resolve problems undetectable by traditional behind-the-firewall tools? This is your chance to learn about both. Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group (DTAG) customers are increasingly using the Internet to rent vehicles from the Dollar Rent A Car and Thrifty Car Rental web sites. Recently, ......... " What you will learn: - How Dollar Thrifty geared up for their peak summer season - How a new style of load testing enables organizations to “walk in their customer’s shoes” and find problems before end-users find them -

El video "I'm a Technical Woman" (Soy una mujer tecnica) fue emocionante. Casi llore! Es increible cuantas de nosotras hay en esta profesion. El objectivo de este video es de atraer a las jovenes y mujeres a la carrera de tecnologia. No todo es programacion ...hay muchas areas en las cuales se pueden desarrollar. Muestren este video en las escuelas y universidades ...y Ojala que inspiremos a nuestra juventud a seguir esta carrera que es tan exitante. Chequear el enlace: http://ow.ly/shX0%20#ghc09

La conferencia de Grace Hopper esta super llena ...Hay en total 1600 mujeres asistiendo a esta. El bolso (cartera) que nos han dado contiene muchos regalitos de las differentes companias que estan apoyando la conferencia. Hasta una bolsa de lavar ropa ...y eso que aun faltan mas regalos ...Veremos que pasa cuando las companias (vendors) comienzen a dar regalos ...

Hey ...now you can find me on Twitter too!! It is really cool! Join me @mirkeya..

Only 6 days left for 2009 Grace Hopper Conference. I wonder how many new latinas will join Latinas in Computing once the conference over. This is huge...There are so many of us out there !!! We need more!! Also, Lic poster for GHC09 looks great ...Thanks to Patty Lopez. She did a great job!! ===========En Espanol >>========== Solo faltan 6 dias para la conferencia Grace Hopper. Al terminar la conferencia, seria interesante saber cuantas latinas se inscribieron para formar parte de Latinas in Computing . Esto va hacer grande .....Hay muchas de nosotras en technologia .....Aunque necesitamos mas!! Ademas, el diseno de la agenda de Lic para Grace Hopper se ve muy bien. Gracias a Patty Lopez quien hizo un buen trabajo.

This month, QMA September meeting is having an HP Senior Solution Architect presenting HP software and testing tools. When: Sept. 8, 2009 Time: 6PM - 8PM Where: Technisource - located at 2 Penn Plaza, NY NY 10001 (7th Ave above 32nd St Penn Station Entrance). Speaker: Senior Solutions Architect- Jim Eich Topic: HP software and testing tools For more details and reservations, follow this link: http://www.qma-ny.org/event.asp?EventType=September%20Meeting%20-%20HP%20Software P.S. ==> RSVP by Sunday, September 6, 2009 and don't forget to bring your business card for a drawing prize.

My daughter received a scholarship to take a language course at Goethe Institute Berlin in Germany. She spent 21 days in Berlin with other high school students from around the world. Last week, she traveled to San Francisco, CA to attend a youth outreach conference at Stanford University School of Medicine. She has been very busy this summer ... In addition, she was accepted at Rockefeller University's Science Outreach program. The program selected about 20 high school students to participate in a two-week program.

Today, I'm testing a few applications remotely. Too many scripts to validate and test. On another note, I provided my first full draft for review (i.e., Dissertation ). I'm just awaiting for the feedback ... I hope is not too bad. It has been 4 years of consecutive work .....I want to be done with this and dedicate time to my kids. That's it for now. I'll continue updating the status of my dissertation.

Several Lic members had their papers accepted at the GH09 conference to be held in Tucson, Arizona (September 30 - October 3, 2009). The conference theme is "Creating Technology For Social Good". I'll be a panelist in one of the Birds-of-a-Feather sessions so I'm looking forward to seeing many of my colleagues and friends there.

Yeap!! It was about time... It is kind of interesting how people like to share their experiences online. I'm not really a fan of it ... but I'll give it a try. I have been so busy lately that I have no time for writing or doing something else. ^-^ For now, that's all what I'm going to write. Maybe tomorrow, I will have something to share.