WSO2 turns heads at OSCON!

WSO2 unveils it's new Governance registry at OSCON 2009!

http://www.sdtimes.com/WSO2_BROADENS_GOVERNANCE_CAPABILITIES/By_David_Worthington/About_SOA_and_WSO2/33630

No. of IE 8 downloads = 8 x No. of children fed = SHAME on Microsoft

http://techfever.net/2009/06/15/microsoft-decides-to-feed-8-people-for-every-ie8-download/

This is one of the most shameful acts of marketing I've ever seen. The number of downloads determine the number of children Microsoft will feed???? What a ridiculous attempt to popularize it's web browser. If you want to feed the children do such a CSR act without manipulating it to sell your software. Microsoft has enough money to feed the children forever if they want to and they resort to such a shameful act of marketing to popularize their software.

Microsoft is ever so famous for their attempt to destroy Netscape by including IE free with Windows. Is this another petty attempt such as that? And this is cleverly disguised in the form of CSR. Of course, one can argue that at least its feeding children, so what's the harm. Yes, what's the harm indeed, when a company that can potentially feed billions uses it to just increase their downloads.

What they should've done is feed the children and brand that campaign with IE 8 in some clever way (They are clever people, we know that). This is like admitting they can't beat Firefox any other way. Good going, firefox!

Joined WSO2

I joined WSO2 as a business development executive. After completing a degree in CS, everyone seemed surprised about this. But I'm also doing CIM. I love the marketing and business side of things. So, WSO2 seemed the right choice for me. I can explore my marketing ambition while making use of my CS knowledge.

Note: WSO2 is a leading open source SOA middle company

Make your Ubuntu sexy... screenlets and docks ;)

Ubuntu is great for a lot of stuff. It's GUI layout is making some really fascinating progress. It's almost perfect to handle everything without the command line (almost being the key word here).

But I wanted to add a bit more colour to the desktop. Why not borrow some ideas from the Mac itself. Not exactly ideas, but implementations, these ideas have been around for sometime.

Let's add some widgets to your desktop. Screenlets served the cause for me. They warn of it still being in the introductory stage. So do forgive the devs if it's a bit laggy. But to the colour it adds to your desktop, its totally worth it. Sexy, comes with a price ;)

http://www.getdeb.net/app/Screenlets

Sometimes the screenlets manager starts multiple screenlets, goes a bit cranky. Never fear. Go to the ~/.config/screenlets and in the screenlet that's being a pain in the arse, you'll find multiple .ini files. Check it out and delete off the unnecessary ones.

Next, let's get a docker. Yes, that sexy thing in the Mac OS X. It's the avant window navigator. That's what I have tried out, but it's not the only one. Just google it and you'll see what I mean. This is memory friendly, and looks so cool. I just love it. (You can check the memory in a sexy way using the sensor screenlet... hehe)

http://www.getdeb.net/app/Avant+Window+Navigator

Make sure you add it to the start up programs in your session if you want it every time.

Be warned~ These things take up memory. But sexy comes with a price, and in the open source world, it ain't cash, but memory. Hail open source!

GSoC

After so many years of learning, GSoC presents an opportunity to earn a substantial amount (at least in the context of a broke college student), and put the good knowledge that was accumulated all these years to some good use. May open source live forever!

http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforStudents

http://code.google.com/soc/2007/asf/about.html

Good perl tutorials

In my search to exploit the world of Perl these are a few good perl tutorials I came across :

Learn Perl in 10 easy lessons : Guides you through the important aspects of perl in a nice and simple way. But only 6 lessons are available out of the 10. If all lessons were there you wouldn't need any other tutorial.

Perl Tutorial by Nik Silver : A historic perl tutorial. But it's good to learn the basics.

Essential Perl : Someone with programming experience should take a look at this. Good for someone in a hurry and is used to programming.

Scripting Insantiy ?!@#

It has been a daunting task to script... No no... not to actually start doing it but to actually find a language to script.

It was suggested that if I was new to programming I should try python, as it is more structured. Since I'm not new to programming I thought I'll go for something more powerful. Hmmm, PHP is popular. Being a heavy metal lover I never liked popular stuff. And obviously it was very popular cause it was easy, widely used and blah blah. Maybe I should try Perl. This was more or less influenced by what one of my colleagues said about it's manipulation capabilities.

I didn't give up on javascript though, since it was client side with all the hype about Ajax. I'd like to know that too.

So yeah perl and javascript... But wait perl 5 or perl 6 ... that's a problem too. Interesting though. So many things to review to just to make the choice of what to learn... haha... Maybe it's getting too complex for its own good... Then again. It's freedom of choice.