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Thursday, August 11, 2005

8th and 9th August 2005.

I have attended two nice seminars on 8^th and 9^th August 2005. On 8^th of August I have attended IBM developer works Live venue was Taj Residency MG Road, Bangalore. It stated as per agenda discussed about the application server WebSphere mainly. Other than this they have discussed about SOA, mail clients, Lotus Notes. They are mainly focused on comparison b/w .NET, Solution by BEA weblogic, SAP and Solution they are providing, which I didn’t like at all, it will be better if they were focused on their own products and lets developers decide which is better suits his/her requirement. Any way the way they presented, was good! Lastly we had nice lunch. And at end they have given one table watch along with evaluation CDs.

On 9^th of august, I went to Sun PCQuest developer summit. I liked this summit because it is very well covered the topics which I like to learn. The topics they covered are Java 5.0 features, JAVA EE Persistence trends, Java platform performance tuning, SAP introduction, Develop Java Server Faces, Programming using Java ME, JDIC (JDesktop Integration Component). Especially the topics covered by Dr. Doris Chen from Sun Microsystems was too good (java performance and JSF). I got the t-shirt and cd. I was one of appx 20 people who got t-shirt, because we have to catch t-shirt while they were throwing it.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Change Your Point of View --- Joe Gracia

Change Your Point of View --- Joe Gracia
Imagine you're in London's Heathrow Airport. While you're waiting for your flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies.Finally you find a seat next to a gentleman. You reach down into your traveling bag and pull out your box of shortbread cookies.

As you do so, you notice that the gentleman starts watching you intensely. He stares as you open the box and his eyes follow your hand as you pick up the cookie and bring it to your mouth. Just then he reaches over and takes one of your cookies from the box, and eats it! You're more than a little surprised at this. Actually, you're at a loss for words. Not only does he take one cookie, but he alternates with you. For every one cookie you take, he takes one.

Now, what's your immediate impression of this guy? Crazy? Greedy? He's got some nerve?! Can you imagine the words you might use to describe this man to your associates back at the office? Meanwhile, you both continue eating the cookies until there's just one left. To your surprise, the man reaches over and takes it. But then he does something unexpected. He breaks it in half, and gives half to you. After he's finished with his half he gets up, and without a word, he leaves.

You think to yourself, "Did this really happen?" You're left sitting there dumbfounded and still hungry. So you go back to the kiosk and buy another box of cookies. You then return to your seat and begin opening your new box of cookies when you glance down into your traveling bag. Sitting there in your bag is your original box of ookies -- still unopened.

Only then do you realize that when you reached down earlier, you had reached into the other man's bag, and grabbed his box of cookies by mistake. Now what do you think of the man? Generous? Tolerant? You've just experienced a profound paradigm shift. You're seeing things from a new point of view.

Is it time to change your point of view?

Now, think of this story as it relates to your life . Seeing things from a new point of view can be very enlightening. Think outside the box. Don't settle for the status quo. Be open to suggestions. Things may not be what they seem. :- )

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Happy Frnship Day! 7th Aug 2005

"No man is useless while he has a friend."

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Room 404: file not found".

Why "404 - Page Not Found "? - Why not " 808 - Page Not Found " ? The history of 404: Before the beginning of time, when the Internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, before SLIP or PPP became widely used, an ambitious group of young scientists at CERN (Switzerland) started working on what was to become the media revolution of the nineties: the World Wide Web, later to be known as WWW, or simply 'the Web'. Their aim: to create a database infrastructure that offered open access to data in various formats: multi-media. The ultimate goal was clearly to create a protocol that would combine text and pictures and present it as one document, and allow linking to other such documents: hypertext.Because these bright young minds were reluctant to reveal their progress (and setbacks) to the world, they started developing their protocol in a closed environment: CERN's internal network. Many hours were spending on what later became the world-wide standard for multimedia documents. Using the physical lay-out of CERN's network and buildings as a metaphor for the 'real world' they situated different functions of the protocol in different offices within CERN. In an office on the fourth floor (room 404), they placed the World Wide Web's central database: any request for a file was routed to that office, where two or three people would manually locate the requested files and transfer them, over the network, to the person who made that request. When the database started to grow, and the people at CERN realized that they were able to retrieve documents other than their own research-papers, not only the number of requests grew, but also the number of requests that could not be fulfilled, usually because the person who requested a file typed in the wrong name for that file. Soon these faulty requests were answered with a standard message: Room 404: file not found". Later, when these processes were automated and people could directly query the database, the messageID's for error messages remained linked to the physical location the process took place: "404: file not found".The room numbers remained in the error codes in the official release of HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) when the Web left CERN to conquer the world, and are still displayed when a browser makes a faulty request to a Web server. In memory of the heroic boys and girls that worked deep into the night for all those months, in those small and hot offices at CERN, Room 404 is preserved as a 'place on the Web'. None of the other rooms are still used for the Web. Room 404 is the only and true monument to the beginning of the Web, a tribute to a place in the past, where the future was shaped.