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IS 696 MUSIC WORLD Iteration 3

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:50:18 -0500

The final day for us to present our Music World website for Iteration 3. The website is designed using two APIs.

Amazon REST API
Google AJAX SEARCH API

The project objective is system integration we could acheive that by integrating Amazon and Google APIs. Here is the link for the presentation and MUSIC WORLD website.

IS 696 Lessons Learnt

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:18:38 -0500

This is about IS 696 class experience . IS 696 started out with introduction to web 2.0 and blogging. I never had a chance to do it. As the semister progressed I came to know about lot technologies out the market. As a part of five blogs per week I could explore various sources and enhance my knowledge .The Project MUSIC WORLD started out little vague but blogging website learning remix helped us to make things easier.I appreciate Dr. Bud Gibson for his best efforts in the course design. I would like blog in future on learning remix if our account stays active even after the course is finished.

Congress Meets Second Life

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:51:31 -0500

Second life considered as web 3.0 a 3D world where you reach places of in accesibile and meet people whom you cant. This is virtual world is now served as good resource of information. Using the SunlightLabs APIs, Kiwini Oe of Clear Ink created info centers on the Second Life Capitol Hill that offer detailed information on members of the U.S. Congress.So this feature provide egovernance.

Wells Fargo Data center strategy.

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:16:28 -0500

Wells Fargo is saving large $$ by using a Free cooling system in their Data Center.A cooling tower outside and a heat exchanger inside are expected to save the bank $450,000 annually. This cooling system uses the water to cool the data centers. The cooling towers located outside the data center cool the water using temperature outside to cool the systems. So locating the data centers near the cold regions in order have lot of money by reducing the usage of energy to drive systems that cool the data centers. Yan Ness CEO of OTC is looking for same technology to make use of.

SAP Unveils Web 2.0 Look for Its CRM Tool

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:51:50 -0500

SAP in its press conferences announces that its CRM tool have new web 2.0 style Plug in to enable user to make the platform easy to use and much more interactive. The president of SAP Bob Stutz says that SAP is trying bridge gap between web based systems and enterprise application systems.An analyst at Forrester Research suggests that such a move will definitely capture Target audience but Oracle and Microsoft had made such a move much before the SAP but SAP has its own market and all over the world and it rocks.Checkout this article in this website.

Mini Project Iteration 3

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:49:47 -0500

For Mini project Iteration 3 I developed a website which shows the DVD search results. These results are obtained by parsing XML response obtained from Amazon via proxy. Here is my website and presentation.

Something is wrong with our Network

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:56:58 -0500

I was trying create blog posts on learning remix on tuesday night and when i was browsing google reader suddenly page is rerouted to ebayand some junk websites. When I scanned my system for Spyware I founded spyware loaded as an IE driver. But this not effect my mozilla, Microsoft comments on mozilla might be untrue and In my case more secure than IE. I request all the users of this network to keep their contents secured before its attacked.

XO LAPTOP in response to Nandini blog

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:34:38 -0500

This blog is in response to Nandinis Blog about XO laptop. I had a chance to learn about different features of XO on their website. The functionality is more than required. The idea of laptop give away is good to address the problem of Digital divide. But there is one issue over here, these developing countries do not have teachers who can teach children how to make best use of this resource. I suggest the Organizations who are involved in this campaign should concentrate on educating the people first who can make this as fruitful outcome.

An interview with jMaki Architect

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:00:08 -0500

Greg Murray is Ajax architect at SUN Microsystems. The interview with Greg Murray is very interesting.Greg version of Ajax is called jMaki(Javascript, Maki-wrapper). jMaki is framework functionality can be experienced on the their website jMaki.com The jMaki framework can be used with many technologies like PHP, Servlets, Ruby on rails. jMaki plugin is now available on eclipse and netbeans. jMaki has lot of flexibility to both client and server side. In this video greg shows us a demo creating a web app using jMaki.Greg explains his demo using Dogo tool kit. I think jMaki is very framework to design a better web 2.0 web applications.

Microsoft virtual labs

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:25:03 -0500

I was trying to learn how to create a domain and configure active directory of Microsoft 2003 server. When I was searching over internet i found a link which directed me microsoft virtual lab. The name virtual lab is very apt as you can configure any server services virtually and test it. There is one limitation the amount of time is only 90 minutes per session.This is a part of Microsoft Technet service.

Server Virtualization

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:23:23 -0500

. Server Virtualization is very highly complicated technology to manage multiple OS on a single server. I was searching for videos to get more explanation about server virtualization. SUN Microsystems came up with a their own idea of virtualization to help data centers to be productive. The whole idea of multiple OS on single platform will reduce the need of number of servers and hence heat. The idea of virtualization is realized by the computing powers of INTEL and SUN SPARC chips to a greater extent

Microsoft Surface - The Possibilities

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:30:05 -0500

Microsoft surface is a 30 inc table top surface that changes the way we interact with the digital. I have seen some flash based presentation and tutorials available on Microsoft website. The Microsoft surface is first computer that is commercially available with the many features as shown in the figure. On the table top computer we grab data into hands and move between surfaces. This is completely new innovation in the field of Digital Computing devices.This is going be released in spring 2008 and most suitable for public places like shopping, Hotels etc.

SUN might have taken a wrong decision

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:41:32 -0500

In my previous blog I posted that SUN and Dell came into agreement that dell sells Solaris OEM. But this might cause dell to loose potential customers who buy their Hardware with Solaris. When I read the comments on Jonathan's(SUN Microsystems) Blog, some of the audience appreciated and some them suggested it might cause SUN loose potential market for its Hardware. This way there is big question why is this agreement made and how is this going to affect the market?.

Justin.Tv a great technology built using Amazon EC2

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:05:22 -0500

I was looking at all the websites of top 7 finalists for Amazon contest and I liked Justin.Tvand it is my favorite because I played with their website and its really good website which has several features to watch live video, chat the people who are watching live video and they are planning to implement a feature that lets veiwers to get notified about the information of live video that is going to be broadcasted in advance. This whole functionality is derived by developing custom python media server and using Amazon EC2

Amazon Picks Finalists for $100K Prize

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:39:51 -0500

Amazon anounced its finalist for the competition that is held for Software corporates and developers. The contest is "Amazon Web Services (AWS) is searching for the next hot start-up that is leveraging AWS to build its infrastructure and business. The AWS Start-Up Challenge winner will receive $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, and receive an investment offer from Amazon."(Amazon)I aslo contested for it. I feel it as good opportunity to take advantage, to show ones skills to world of IT. I saw the finalist and they done amazing job. Amazon, which intial thought of ecommerce as their main market is now provinding various web based services. Amazon is comming with great innovative ways to handle the web solutions like computing cloud and so..on.