Internship at Intalio

I am flying to Dallas today (actually writing this on the plane) to spend a week with my father. I have a significant amount of work to do, notably get the rPath server up and running again, build the infrastructure to allow the Designer to deploy on it without (much) user involvement. I also have [...]

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Define what it is The registration backend is the system the Designer talks to upon a registration or login attempt. We want the registration process to occur after the download, and after the install, not before. In doing so, we want to reduce usage friction. Ultimately, the user would agree to the license, download the [...]

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I got up today (Sunday) at 8 in order to get ready to go on my first ever business trip – I’m going to Orlando, Florida to attend Gartner’s BPM Summit. Gartner invited Intalio as a VIP in exchange for us sponsoring their Magic Quadrant. Ismael and Jacques-Alexandre suggested that I go this year, so [...]

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After meeting Jeff Bezos yesterday, I ran into Steve Jobs today! Ismael came back to the office after having lunch, and was all excited: he had just crossed Steve Jobs, the CEO and Founder of Apple. Steve Jobs was sitting on the stairs to our office, on the phone (iPhone). I didn’t believe him at [...]

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I talked to Ismael about the extended stay over lunch today (just after getting my hair cut). We discussed many things as usual, and we settled, after talking about telesales, on taking a gap year. I also met billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. I went to the Amazon Startup Project at the [...]

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I did not do much for Intalio past week, because of Office 2.0, so I caught up on a lot today. Caught up on sleep, on work, and on email. I invited all the people I met for lunch to keep contact, a lot of them were interesting.

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Today was the last day. We were all afraid all day long about the task before us: packing back up. We had to clean the iMacs for software, so that we could sell them at the end of the conference. We also had to dismount the arms and the Dell monitors, clean, and pack. There [...]

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We woke up very early this morning, Ihab and I, and drove in May’s car to San Francisco. We had to be there before 7 to finish preparing the pods, for the early sponsors to setup their presentations, between 7 and 10. It was very hectic, as there were many people, many sponsors, and yet [...]

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I got up today at 7 – as I do most days – but was not to head for Emerson Street. Instead, I was going to San Francisco. Ihab, our new intern, joined me at the CalTrain station, and we chatted on the way North. We arrived to find a very busy Ismael, and a [...]

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