Hello! It seems that a bit of time has gone by since I’ve dusted off this blog. A long while, perhaps, based on the number of spam comments in the moderation queue. In any event, I’m going to start again. I’ll cover several topics, but be warned, I’m going to get technical.

Over the last few months I’ve ramped up my consulting company, Metastratus Web Solutions, quite a bit, and have taken a few steps back from FatWire Software where I’ve been parking most of my working hours over the last few years. Part of that is due to the fact that FatWire was recently acquired by Oracle. (That is a whole topic itself). Long story short, Metastratus is now an Oracle Gold partner and I’ve set out as an elite team of WebCenter Sites (formerly FatWire Content Server) specialists, to help customers with their implementations.

That’s going well. We were lucky in that we hit the ground running. Metastratus has been in operation for almost two years now and we have a team of 5 today, myself included. In the last couple of months, we’ve opened a US company, have started hiring, and began building relationships with several key partners in this small but rapidly growing community. And we’re hiring.

I must admit that getting all of this set up has been a huge amount of work, and so it’s really at the front of my mind a lot these days. Consequently, it’s going to probably dominate the blog for a bit. But besides just the whole setup topic, I’ll be posting technical topics regularly, and I won’t be able to resist the occasional personal post too. Some of you know that I’ve been pretty involved in the creation of the GST Site Foundation (”GSF”), so you can look here for posts on that topic too.

So that’s the intro for now. Watch this space, and please don’t hesitate to comment below.

As for now, its’ time to head home to prepare for a concert! The Etobicoke Community Concert Band is performing its first series concert, “From Rags to Riches”, tonight at ECI. It’s my first concert since coming back after a brief hiatus, so I’m looking forward to it. Very short rehearsal schedule though so we are hoping for some good celestial alignment (today is the Rapture (revised) after all).