Personally I don’t mind MS Exchange based email servers as long as they are configured to run in some what standard mode. To my surprise I could actually get email out of the system, thanks to a French blogger.

I wonder if I can do the same for hotmail (well it’s already being forwarded to my gmail account

This quater I am taking two courses, Fault tolerant systems and concurrent programming. Both fit very nicely in my goals of becoming a better software engineer. Concurrent programming is especially interesting. In the past few months I have encountered various blogs, podcasts where it is frequently said that no self respecting programmer can claim that he can get concurrency right (for all the cases) it’s a very hard problem, and people who think they know how to do it have no real idea what they are in for.

Fault tolerance is some thing which is very crucial in any highly dependeable systems. There was another course being offered with the title of Software Engineering using Formal methods, but I decided to not take it as it deals with lots of formal theories and I have a feeling that it won’t be much of a use for me (being on the practical side) I will howere try to attend a few lectures of that course (regarding concurrency modelling).

The subjects of Software Architecture and e-Health are actually very hot these days. With a lot of countries investing into electronic health it was time for me to cover some domain aspects. I have plans to continue with this subject and will be posting links to blogs I am following.

One of the most interesting blogs I have come across is Health Care IT guy (by a software architect named Shahid Shah who appears to be of Pakistani descent). 

For now I am finished with my compulsory course requirements and would hope to choose electives with greater learning value in coming Fall.