Korg RK-100S

[Peter Korsten]

So... the project at work is finally getting back to a sense of 
normality, and with almost 500 unread messages in the Music Bar (and 
only because I dispatched around 50 just now), it's perhaps time to 
return to the old haunt.

If you're wondering what this project was about: we replaced our 
home-built-over-a-decade CRM system with Oracle's Siebel. We're doing 
this with the Greek subsidiary of an international consultancy firm, who 
in turn offshore most of the work to Pune, India, as it happens to the 
building next to where our offshore team works. My personal opinion is 
that we got the better developers.

Well, there were a few issues. I think we're around the 10,000 mark in 
JIRA now, but to be honest, that's from the very beginning, two or three 
years ago. Customers have not been very happy, to put it mildly. It's 
cost a lot of money, not to mention hard work, to get them happy again.

One system in particular is the one that I redeveloped, because Siebel 
cannot do scheduled jobs. You can imagine that, if you rebuild a new 
system from scratch, with completely different components, there will be 
issues. Especially if you build your system two full years before any 
integration can be done.

For example: the Greeks need to invoke two so-called web services on my 
system in order. First they call operation A, then operation B. But 
because of parallel processing on their end, they would sometimes call 
first B, then A. So I made a fix for that on my end. Then I found out 
that sometimes they would call them at the same time. And the list goes 
on and one.

Anyway, Friday was the first day in many, many moths that I working 
totally relaxed, and so it's time to get back to the land of the living.

I haven't seen this pass by, so I wondered what you guys think of the 
Korg RK-100S:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfcDQu--pc

It looks like a fun little keyboard, even if you don't paint your nose blue.

- Peter