The graph looks like the city of Colombo with one huge sky scraper. That was the month that I started blogging extensively about Axis2. Its nice to see that these posts did help quite a few readers in sorting out there issues. I plan to blog more extensively in 2009, so stay tuned. And a big thank you to the readers of this blog.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Visits to this Blog in 2008
I've been using StatCounter to track visits to my Blog since June 2008. I came to know about StatCounter from Charitha who was using it to track visits to his blog. The following image shows the visits to this blog for the year 2008.
The graph looks like the city of Colombo with one huge sky scraper. That was the month that I started blogging extensively about Axis2. Its nice to see that these posts did help quite a few readers in sorting out there issues. I plan to blog more extensively in 2009, so stay tuned. And a big thank you to the readers of this blog.
The graph looks like the city of Colombo with one huge sky scraper. That was the month that I started blogging extensively about Axis2. Its nice to see that these posts did help quite a few readers in sorting out there issues. I plan to blog more extensively in 2009, so stay tuned. And a big thank you to the readers of this blog.
A look back at a Fantastic 2008
2008 was a busy and successful year. It was also a year that I traveled a lot. I traveled to the US 6 times and spent about 2 months out of the country.
To start the year off we had the 1.0 release of the Mashup Server in January. Soon after the release I traveled to the US to deliver a talk titled “Mashups, Social Enterprise, Javascript and Open Source: A real mashup! “ at the Open Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Summit: Expanding Customer Value Networks held at NYC Seminar and Conference Center, NY. That was my first visit to the US and it was quite a long one. During this visit I spent a weekend in New York city and took the opportunity to visit the Statue of Liberty and Elis island. After a weekend in New York city I headed down to California to spend a week in the Mountain View office. During this period I also went down to Jonathan's place in Auburn and spent a few days there. We spent time planning out the future features we needed for the Mashup Server. During the weekend we did some hiking looking for a few geocaches and some kayaking as well. It was my first time on a kayak and it was fun. The next week I headed out to New York back again to attend the Web services on Wall street conference.
After a 2 week visit to the US I spent 2 weeks at home before heading out to the US again. This time it was to conduct a few training at SDWEST 2008 which was held in the Santa Clara convention center in California.
This time I had one week at home before heading out to the US again. This time it was to attend the Microsoft Web Services Interop Plug-fest held at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. On our way to Redmond we were gonna spend a day in the Mountain View office as well. The good thing that time around was that I was not traveling alone. Actually this is the only time that I have traveled to the US with my colleagues. It was an unforgettable trip too with us missing our connecting flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco, this was after spending about 40 hours from Colombo to Los Angeles. We spent the night in Los Angeles and headed out to San Francisco the following morning. We then headed off to Seattle later that evening. Been there along with quite a few friends meant that we had a good time.
My next visit to the US was in May and it was back to New York city. It was a consulting engagement and it was for a large stock broker in Wall Street. They were gonna use WSO2 WSAS and WSO2 ESB as a solution to there requirement. We were able to get then started off within just 5 days of work there. Now they are using this solution in production and is one of our good customers.
In between all these travel arrangements I was working on the next release of the WSO2 Mashup Server as well. We were able to release the 1.5 version of the Mashup Server in July. This was a major accomplishment for us.
My next visit to the US was in August to conduct a four day training course on Apache Axis2. This time around I was in the scorching heat of Phoenix, Arizona.
It was just about this time that we were seriously starting work on WSO2 Carbon and the rest of the year was spent on making WSO2 Carbon a success. But my traveling for the year wasn't over, my last visit to the US last year was to attend ApacheCon US 2008 which was held in New Orleans. This was by far the best trip I've had to the US.
To finish off a fantastic year we had a few beta releases of WSO2 Carbon based products. This year will be spent solidifying the products built on the WSO2 Carbon platform. I will be also looking forward to releasing the 2.0 version of the Mashup Server which will be based on WSO2 Carbon.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Experiance at ApacheCon 2008 in New Orleans
I uploaded photos that I took in New Orleans last November. I was there for ApacheCon 2008 and it was freaking awesome. To start things off I was on a A380 for the first time. ApacheCon 2008 was held in the Sheraton Hotel in New Orleans which is located beside the Mississippi river. I had a great view of the Mississippi river cause I was on the 47th floor. The view from there was simply amazing.
ApacheCon itself was a great event with several good talks and keynotes. A highlight of the event was the "Funeral march for proprietary software".
This was a really fun event where we marched along the streets of New Orleans with the world famous Rebirth Brass Band and ended up in the "Howling Wolf Music Hall". I did upload quite a few photos of this event too :).
New Orleans was a fun place to be in and it sure was a city that never sleeps. It was late nights on a daily basis with us walking from one club to another. Baring a couple of days where I went to bed early the earliest I slept was 3.00 AM which there were a couple of days that I slept at 6.00 AM as well. It was all about getting to know each other in the Apache community and having fun together. It was the best trip I had to the US.
I also took the opportunity the walk around New Orleans. I did visit the famous French Quarter area as well as Cafe Du Monde which is famous for there French Donuts. And yes I didn't forget to get a pack of Cafe Du Monde Bignet Mix. I also visited the Aquarium down there and it was an amazing experience. It was the first time I had visited an aquarium of this magnitude and I made sure that I got plenty of pictures so that I could share the experience with my family.
ApacheCon itself was a great event with several good talks and keynotes. A highlight of the event was the "Funeral march for proprietary software".
This was a really fun event where we marched along the streets of New Orleans with the world famous Rebirth Brass Band and ended up in the "Howling Wolf Music Hall". I did upload quite a few photos of this event too :).New Orleans was a fun place to be in and it sure was a city that never sleeps. It was late nights on a daily basis with us walking from one club to another. Baring a couple of days where I went to bed early the earliest I slept was 3.00 AM which there were a couple of days that I slept at 6.00 AM as well. It was all about getting to know each other in the Apache community and having fun together. It was the best trip I had to the US.
I also took the opportunity the walk around New Orleans. I did visit the famous French Quarter area as well as Cafe Du Monde which is famous for there French Donuts. And yes I didn't forget to get a pack of Cafe Du Monde Bignet Mix. I also visited the Aquarium down there and it was an amazing experience. It was the first time I had visited an aquarium of this magnitude and I made sure that I got plenty of pictures so that I could share the experience with my family.
Its official - Sri Lankan troops capture Kilinochchi
What a start to 2009 its for Sri Lanka as a country. Within an hour before the dawn of the new year troops captured Paranthan and a few minutes ago the Sri Lankan government made an official news release stating the fall of Kilinochchi. I would like to thank all those who shed there blood and laid down their lives during this endeavor.
Well it was like the dawn of another year with fire crackers firing all over the place. That shows how much the public embraces this important moment.
Now to the other side of the story, in Sri Lanka everything has a political influence. And I'm sure the government will use this to there utmost advantage. Even during the speech made by the President he asked all people of this country to make a sacrifice so that this war could be finished soon. Well thats a fair enough statement but why cant the government make a sacrifice too?. The government is maintaining over 100 ministries (Mind you Sri Lanka is a small country with just over 20 million people) and no moves have been made to cut down the waste made by these ministers. They keep spending our tax money and enjoy a luxurious life and expect the poor tax payers of this country to make sacrifices.
Well a good example is the fuel crisis in Sri Lanka. A few weeks ago the supreme court ordered that petrol be sold at Rs. 100 a liter and that the tax charged on petrol should not exceed a 100%. At the time of this verdict petrol was Rs. 122 a liter. The response of the government to this situation was turning a blind eye on the verdict of the supreme court. On the eve of the new year the government announced that they would reduce petrol by Rs. 2 and that it cannot reduce it further due to the high expense incurred on the war. Well true enough, the expenditure on defense matters is high and we can see the benefits of it, but has any measures been taken to cut down on the unnecessary expenditures made by the government? Is it just the poor tax payers of this country that should make all the sacrifices? Motor vehicles in Sri Lanka carry a tax of around 300%-400%, and all ministers are given tax permits to bring down luxury vehicles. These luxury vehicles are very high in fuel consumption and even the fuel is provided by the government (or by tax payers money). Now Mr President, why not cut down on those cost? Why not get your ministers to make sacrifices?
Well it was like the dawn of another year with fire crackers firing all over the place. That shows how much the public embraces this important moment.
Now to the other side of the story, in Sri Lanka everything has a political influence. And I'm sure the government will use this to there utmost advantage. Even during the speech made by the President he asked all people of this country to make a sacrifice so that this war could be finished soon. Well thats a fair enough statement but why cant the government make a sacrifice too?. The government is maintaining over 100 ministries (Mind you Sri Lanka is a small country with just over 20 million people) and no moves have been made to cut down the waste made by these ministers. They keep spending our tax money and enjoy a luxurious life and expect the poor tax payers of this country to make sacrifices.
Well a good example is the fuel crisis in Sri Lanka. A few weeks ago the supreme court ordered that petrol be sold at Rs. 100 a liter and that the tax charged on petrol should not exceed a 100%. At the time of this verdict petrol was Rs. 122 a liter. The response of the government to this situation was turning a blind eye on the verdict of the supreme court. On the eve of the new year the government announced that they would reduce petrol by Rs. 2 and that it cannot reduce it further due to the high expense incurred on the war. Well true enough, the expenditure on defense matters is high and we can see the benefits of it, but has any measures been taken to cut down on the unnecessary expenditures made by the government? Is it just the poor tax payers of this country that should make all the sacrifices? Motor vehicles in Sri Lanka carry a tax of around 300%-400%, and all ministers are given tax permits to bring down luxury vehicles. These luxury vehicles are very high in fuel consumption and even the fuel is provided by the government (or by tax payers money). Now Mr President, why not cut down on those cost? Why not get your ministers to make sacrifices?
Kilinochchi on the Brink of Falling
Yes its too good to be true. The Sri Lankan armed forces have entered Kilinochchi and is in the process of taking control of the LTTE stronghold. Kilinochchi was the main place the LTTE operated out of and the Sri Lankan forces expect the fall of Kilinochchi within the next couple of hours.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Podcast - Can WSDL 2.0 be used to describe a RESTfull service
In this podcast I talk about how WSDL 2.0 can be used to describe RESTfull services. I also talk about why one would want to describe a RESTfull service using WSDL 2.0.
In this podcast I mention about a couple of examples up on mooshup.com which shows how a RESTfull service can be described using WSDL 2.0. You could find more details about that example here.
In this podcast I mention about a couple of examples up on mooshup.com which shows how a RESTfull service can be described using WSDL 2.0. You could find more details about that example here.
Podcast on WSDL 2.0 - The need for it
In this podcast which was published a couple of weeks ago I talk about what WSDL 2.0 is all about and why people would want to use it. If you are a newbie to web services and want to learn about WSDL then I would recommend you to have a look at WSDL 2.0, simply because its much cleaner and easier to understand.
In this podcast I also mention about the interop we had for WSDL 2.0. The results can be seen here.
In this podcast I also mention about the interop we had for WSDL 2.0. The results can be seen here.
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