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It's very funny,all of a sudden we are one planet less in our solar system.I think i would have said in my science class that universe comprised of only 8 planets.I knew i was right,i'm a nasa stuff over,however my science mam never entertained me.Can she apologise to me or get me that elusive point in my paper :),Inventions and expeditions...lol....Just kidding.

Intresting read pluto is gonner

This is freakin funny.I did laugh my ass out,enjoy :)

I was whiling my time and happened to flash by this piece of info.This guy (Orkut Buyukkokten) seems to have invented Orkut or atleast the concept was his brain child.In case you are as curious as me,this happens to be his page, or atleast thats the rumour.I wish i can ask him,if this web site is on a dot net framework or is it a camouflage.I see the file extensions as .aspx in their web pages/form submit ;).My common sense says Microsoft properites .aspx extensions,and hence logically itshould not be masked in the application server.Also the fact that Google thrives on open source frameworks/softwares/systems fuels my curiousity.

If you know ?,let me know :).

I was asking myself this question after a while since i started to work here in US.I always felt that work as a quantity is valued more in India and less with respect to quality.Does it really matter to just stay on and on and on.How much is my personal life valued ?. I had done lot of night outs,my day clock always runs a bit slow in the morning ;) ,few weekends where i come to work,all in India only.I remember one of my managers expected me to work over weekend and preferred over others for me being single :).What the fcuk ?.Dont single guys have a personal life,can they not enjoy their weekends.Not sure how many will echo my emotional outburst :).Thinking of it,iam perflexed if being an consultant now,meant a Mayan civilization.As such do we understand consulting in India or otherwise ?.I would however reserve this as a personal viewpoint.I hope we can but more often than not we hail ourself as being flexible timers on work and drag ourselves to midnight.Though to me work from home is a mere absurd,i have really not heard several instances of the same in my home land.Can i work between 9-5 in India ?.Can i say no to work in weekends ?.Why is it said that,they say you are paid 9L and you should stay long hours ?.Not really sure.All these questions remain unanswered in my mind.IT as a whole is hailed a lot in India but the ethics,culture,work style may have to improve a bit.Job outsourcing ah ???.I hope just the mere presence is not the proof :).

I was reading on SOA just in the recent past and couldn't resist the temptation of asking myself what or who
to challenge it now.Theres a no rest battle right now.There is a passionate debate raging on the merits of SOA versus REST that I don't get. Some argue that SOA/WS-* is too complex and too "enterprisey" and that we should write off the complex WS-* standards approach in favor of a simpler REST approach.

There is also the need to aggregate fine grained services into business processes. This concept is supported with model driven tools that orchestrate a set of services to form a more complex business process. Weblogic provides a clean abstraction to invoke EJB layer specifically Stateless Session Bean through JAX-RPC style with effortless ease.
To put URIs around a set of services that will never be presented in a browser to be aggregated for reuse doesn't make much sense. Even if web services did not exist, I would not use REST for this purpose. I would use messaging such as JMS.

Messaging brings up another issue with REST inside the firewall. It is often desirable to use SOAP over JMS versus HTTP inside the firewall to simplify transaction management and security. For example, you could expose a web service as HTTP(s) externally and though a gateway service as SOAP over JMS internally. Protocol abstraction, security and transaction management are more enterprisey details you have to bake into your SOA.

Development tools support importing WSDLs, generating WSDLs, creating SOAP request documents for debugging and so on. Some of the more complex WS-* standards are now supported in tools, with many more to follow, that abstract this complexity from the developer such as DataPower's support for SAML and federated identity management. The concept of federated security is indeed enterprisey, but for many a necessity.

I have nothing against REST. In the early days of the Internet we had built several e-commerce systems with these techniques - back then, I did not even know I was using REST when building those long, ugly URIs. But the tools being created now for developer's use are moving to WS-* standards support to solve enterprise class problems. I personally think enterprise wide and complex problems are most interesting but though iam not a expert on SOA implementations or systems.

Tew an 21 year old student from England,in an effort to raise funds for his higher studies,came up with this mercurial thought of building a home page,http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com.He wanted to sell every pixel for a dollar here and hence divided the page into 1,000,000 pixels.Guess what today he is a millionaire.Though i would say only morons would advertise in this page,but the novel thought is a incarnation of ingenious.

I was reading my daily dosage of news article and understood that vodafone has 45% minority stake in Verizon Wireless.After working there for more than 21/2 years,i thought i should have known this.I hope its better late than never.