Its a new year, Its a fresh year

We have a new year again. This time new year is lot different to ones before. As the blog suggests, i was kind of out of blogging also in the past. I was busy with settle down work over here.
Last year had been very significant one. I was mostly busy with migration work. It is kind of over now. Though I am not hundred percent settled.
I went to see New year eve fire work yesterday. It is fabulous. If I say its best in the world, I think its not an over statement. So nice. Bad things is had to wait six hours until it started, to get a place. Organizing was so good, we didn't feel any inconvenience. My heartiest appreciations goes to the organizers of the event.
That takes me to another event. My very first youtube video of the new year fire works 2008 was done at the place with my low quality camera. Have a look and send me an comment.
So this is a new year. So many things to do. Will see how things go

Singapore Airport

Didnt blog for long time. I was busy with migration thing.
Right now I am at Singapore Changi Air port.
Nice and quiet place. Have lot to do here
Will blog once I get to OZ
Hopefully

How many Mega Pixels is enuf ?

For a digital photography enthusiast this is a good article on, What should your resolution be. Resolution and size of the image does not depend on another.
Some are fervantly trying to get the biggest resolution on earth. Do you really need it

PR

Got permanent residentship in Australia. Now getting ready to sail. Have to wrap up stuff in SL and get set for the new stuff. So much to do. Here are few
1) Sell the car
2) Find somebody to rent the house
3) Get EPF/ETF/Gratuity
4) Do the formalities of the resignation
5) Get the tickets
6) Find a place to stay

I will discuss more on this soon

Done !!

McDonalds SOA project done !!!
Great team. Amalaka, Asanka Priyanjith, Anuki, Anuradhani
Weldone

Software Frameworks

There are plethora of frameworks, available for SW engineers today. With the advent of open source software, there seem no end to the type of options that are available, to choose when you start writing an application.
The typical J2EE based sw would include JSP/JSF/Struts layer on presentation, and going down we have Spring in business, and hibernate, IBatis in the data layer. Unfortunately, most of these framework fulfill one aspect, and when it come to full application silos, The software engineer still have lot to do, to make it running.
One may call this flexibility. There is no doubt that there are no ideal technolgy stack. However the mostly used Web applications have same set of problems and would need similar fashioned wiring in many projects.
There are few attempts done today to bring together the most apporipriate stack to build an application platform.
At least somy commercial vendors seem to be keen on doing this. There are isolated attemts to make enterprise platforms using these frameworks.
This is good, You cant expect everything to be open source. You got to get money from somwhere. Else SW engineers will have to depend on dontations !!!

Its the new year again

New year had been the the most important event we were looking for over the year. So it has come again. I think the new year is for children. Or I would say its the its the children that enjoyed most.
It has shaped over the past three decades i watched over to wat i it is today. Its more of a mix of the fast fading cultural event and bit of modernisation. So now you can see girls doing tug-o-war wearing denims. Interesting.
When we were in Matara, I remember it had been a family even that broguht us together. We did so many things visited relations, lot of sweets, old cakes that doesnt have taste exchanged a lot.
We were fed first part of feast by father and we followed seated around a table. Soon after we eat we studied a bit in a rush which has no concentration. We take bottle of water from the well and keep it until the next year comes. Relation visit and we worship them. We get some coins to keep rest of the year etc etc.
Cant forget the fact we always wear new clothes.
So this time wat we gonna do, only tomorrow i can tell !!!

Axis2 Invocation framework

Web Services does not standardize on invocation framework. Beacuase of that, different implementations of the service engines have its own methods of invoking the services. Web Services itself does not restrict to SOAP (Many does not know or care about this). Axis2 provides very easy to use intutive method of invoking the Web Services.
I developed a mechanism to invoke any type of Web Service (As long as the service is described in WSDL) by using Axis2 client framework. All what I did was to hook a transport sender where the request is marshalled into the real transport medium. For example, if you want to invoke a Java service which is available in ur local machine, the transport sender can invoke the methods in it and send the response using the same Axis2 pipes. This will turn the java content into XML.
Similarly any tranport can be plugged in, any service can be invoked using XML and use the same client framework without a change.
Hope this will become part of Axis2 soon

Scripts and Batches

It is interesting to note how much companies still depend on old batch scripts, in a world where IT sphere is changing rapidly. From its inception I think mostly due to rapid changes in the ICT technologies, existing technolgies become stale, out-of-date so soon. The applications done today is does not go with the concepts coming tomorrow.
Can the businesses which are not so fast in changing their stuff, cope up with this ? No, they simply cant give up things. Still many organizations depend on batch processing, which are done mostly using batch scripts. Most interesting thing is mostly core business functions solely depend on them. The reliance on batches is so high, that companies are willing to spend anyamount to modernize or simply upgrade its look rather than scrap them.
Sometimes back, I thought, script languages going to go away soon. I was proved wrong, when I happent to learn them again years after that thought.
Am I going back, in time dimension ?

Its a new year

Its end of a very important year... At least for me..
there are significant changes in ma work that happent during the year,,, For the interest of the others, I changed myself more into free and open source development. This is more of an acquired taste. I fallen in lve with open source development as I worked on my research project. I think its the future,,,. Its all about end of software slavery, and freedom of choice..
Apart from that, I started seeking the meaning of ma life... I dont want to elaborate on this,,
MY msc thing is finishing up, actually i would have finished it, had my univeristy ppl are meeting their time lines
I wil list my new year plans in the next blog