Cool Regex Tester

I needed to test some regex and this is one cool site I ran into. You should check it out if you want some regex checked on the fly.

http://regexpal.com/

Terminator - A sleeker linux terminal

I recently noticed that one of my colleagues, our WSO2 Sys admin/Linux guru Chamith, a terminal that caught my eye (and yes, if you know me, you know only a few things actually manage to take hold of my limited attention span). It's a terminal that can be split sideways, this way and that way so you can have so many terminals in one view. Ok, fine, I exaggerated. You can split the screen horizontally and vertically with this thing.

Personally, I find this very useful due to the reason of copying data around terminals. I always wished I knew out of the zillion tabs I opened which tab had which commands and data. And tadaaaaa! Here comes the solution, by the name of terminator (get it with apt-get install terminator). Of course, it has it's own cons, but the pros, I LIKE!

Here are some shortcuts and screen shots I found useful courtesy of http://www.ubuntugeek.com/terminator-multiple-gnome-terminals-in-one-window.html

You can use the following keys to split your terminal views

Ctrl-Shift-E: will split the view vertically.

Ctrl-Shift-O: will split the view horizontally.

Ctrl-Shift-P: will focus be active on the previous view.

Ctrl-Shift-N: will focus be active on the next view.

Ctrl-Shift-W: will close the view where the focus is on.

Ctrl-Shift-Q: will exit terminator.

F11: will make terminator go fullscreen.

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