Cast your vote for the 8th Asia Business Leaders Awards (ABLA)

CNBC is letting us to vote for our CEO of choice from the list of 12 nominees of excellent business leaders in Asia. The vote is opened now until 23 October 2009.

The business leader with the most votes wins the Asia Viewers’ Choice Award that will be announced at this year’s 8th Asia Business Leaders Awards on 26 November 2009 at Grand Ballroom of Capella Singapore.

The 12 nominees are:

• Mr. Adirek Sripratak, President & CEO, Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL
• Mr. Dean Lao Jr., Managing Director, Chemrez Technologies Inc.
• Mr. Zhou Jichang, Chairman of Board of Directors, China Communications Construction Co.
• Mr. Frank Gaoning Ning, Chairman, COFCO Corporation
• Mr. Johan Dennelind, Chief Executive Officer, DiGi.Com Bhd
• Mr. Shiv Nadar, Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, HCL Technologies Ltd
• Mr. Peter Bahn-Suk Kim, Vice Chairman & CEO, LG Chem, Ltd
• Mr. Hiroshi Nagase, President & CEO, NAGASE & Co., Ltd
• Mr. Sunny George Verghese, Group Managing Director & CEO, Olam International Limited
• Mr. Tang Kin Fei, Group President & CEO, Sembcorp Industries Ltd
• Mr. Tan Pheng Hock, President & CEO, ST Engineering
• Tan Sri (Dr) Francis Yeoh, CBE, Managing Director, YTL Corporation Berhad

Click here for more information and to cast your vote for the 8th Asia Business Leaders Awards.

Oracle Magazine presented Editors Choice Awards 2009

It has come to the 8th year for the editors of Oracle Magazine to present the Editors’ Choice Awards to people who exemplify leadership, vision, and dedication in working with and managing Oracle technology.

And the winners for year 2009 are:

• João Cumerlato from Odebrecht Group, Brazil - CIO of the Year (Latin America)
• Andy Platt from The J.M. Smucker Company, Ohio - CIO of the Year (North America)
• Hyojoong Kim from STX Group and ForceTEC, Korea - CIO of the Year (Asia Pacific)
• Giovanni Chiarelli from Telecom Italia Group, Italy - CIO of the Year (Europe, Middle East, and Africa)
• Hideo Higuchi from Omron, Japan - CIO of the Year (Japan)
• Katherine M. Tamer from United Space Alliance, Texas - CTO of the Year
• Angelo Romano from Office of the Comptroller, Connecticut - IT Manager of the Year
• Jake Ruttenberg from Starbucks Coffee Company, Washington - Data Warehouse Architect of the Year
• Zachary Sherburne from Black & Decker, California - Performance Management/Business Intelligence Architect of the Year
• Martin Buechi from Avaloq, Switzerland - PL/SQL Developer of the Year
• Jerry Aber from MoneyGram, Minnesota - Content Management Architect of the Year
• Kari Branjord from University of Colorado, Colorado - Applications Implementer of the Year
• Hüsnü Sensoy from Turkcell, Turkey - DBA of the Year
• Kelly Tuggle from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas - SOA Architect of the Year
• Tim Frazier from National Ignition Facility/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California - Enterprise Architect of the Year
• John Turato from Avis Budget Group, New Jersey - Oracle Grid Architect of the Year
• Raimonds Simanovskis from TietoEnator Alise, Latvia - Developer of the Year
• Brenda Hughes from Cisco Systems, California - Security Architect of the Year
• Jennifer Briscoe from Collect America, Colorado - Oracle Fusion Middleware Early Adopter of the Year
• Edwin Biemond from Whitehorses, the Netherlands - Java Developer of the Year
• Chris Muir from SAGE Computing Services, Australia - Oracle ACE Director of the Year
• David Jones, Gerry Hanifan & Arnaud Benjacar from Irish Life Investment Managers, Ireland - Oracle Fusion Middleware Architects of the Year
• Naveen Garg from Colorcon, Pennsylvania - Oracle Enterprise Manager Architect of the Year
• Ross Sharman from Knowledge Global, Australia - Green IT Architect of the Year
• Dimitri Gielis from Apex Evangelists, Belgium - Oracle Application Express Developer of the Year
• Patricia Dues from City of Las Vegas, Nevada - User Group Evangelist of the Year
• Ray Fasullo from Telcordia Technologies, New Jersey - Embedded Architect of the Year

Using GMapTool with cGPSmapper to convert finalized gmapsupp.img back to MapSource maps

We talked about using GMapTool to combine multiple maps into one mapset file for Garmin GPS earlier on. This article is about the reverse, which is to split the combined mapset file back to the original files which can be opened with Garmin MapSource application.

Prerequisites:

• You need to have the mapset file (eg. gmapsupp.img). I'll use the mapset file of MalSingMaps NT 2009.30 to show you how to do it. Click here for more information about MalSingMaps NT 2009.30.
• You need to have GMapTool, which you can download here.
• You need to have cGPSmapper, which you can download here. The free version can be used for this purpose.
• If you want to have MapSource too, you can download here.

Firstly, you need to create a new directory in your computer to store the generated files (output of this conversion process). In the example here, I'll create C:\Garmin\MalSingMaps.

Under the Files section of GMapTool, select the mapset file by clicking on Add Files.

Then, you must specify the full path of your installed cGPSmapper in the Options section.

Continue to the Split section.Click the Directory button and select the new directory you've just created. Make sure you choose to create files for MapSource. You might also want to compile the preview map.

Click the "Split all" button when you are done. Make sure there is no error and the process completed successfully with a "Done!" message.

To install the map for MapSource, run the install.bat script in the output directory.

Now you should be able to open the map in MapSource.

If the map is locked, you need to unlock it by saving the unlock code in MapSource before you are able to see the map. You can do so by going to Utilities > Manage Map Products > Unlock Regions. Click the Add button and paste in your unlock code for the map.

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