Keeping Your Mouth Shut!

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.
Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
....especially when you haven't a clue.
There is nothing more unpleasant than watch someone who haven't got a clue just go on blabbering, hoping to impress others :(

Oh Happiness.. you come so unexpectedly..

I woke up this lazy Sunday morning, thinking to myself should I start with my latest article or should I finish up some of the work I have to get done for next week.. Only to find little Evelyn waiting to get her hands on with the huge painting book we bought from Arpico yesterday..

We had colored the first image and cut and pasted it on the scrap book, last night itself!
She was so excited and has been waiting by my bed side this morning, to get started on the second image. We just completed the second image and Evelyn went away to watch Barney, as she decided cutting and pasting of the puppy image should be done later on..

So I resorted to my dear laptop, undecided what I was going to start with. Hooked up the Vodafone USB Modem and started checking mails for a start.

You will not believe what I had there in store.....!

For a moment I thought Axis2 veteran Eran Chinthaka is pointing me to an article and saying why the hell can't I write up something like that! But no, he actually thought mine was very good "very good", as he came across the one I wrote under the title
'Where did the Computer Go? Computing in the Cloud'.
Oh sweet Jesus (no I'm not a Christian but that's okay), how lovely it is to feel so deliriously happy :) ! Honestly, I am so thrilled that:
1. he thought it was 'very good'
2. he actually wrote to tell me so..
and now my morale for writing good articles (with mysterious titles;) is.. let's just say sky high!!
Thanks, Chinthaka.. and thank you life!

PS: Hm.. while all other stories on OT has a comment option attached, only for this this one the option does not appear! Let me look into that. Heh.. I can't risk loosing such great comments now, can I?
Btw, for those of you who wonder why I used the phrase 'where did the computer go..?' for the title of this article, I actually borrowed it from Apple - the famous marketing tagline they used with the Bondi Blue iMac G5, when it was shipped with a breathtaking display, a hard drive, state-of-the art processor, slot-loading optical drive, together with easily accessible ports - all in a sleek package that was about two inches thick!

Things to Ponder..

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins

Article on SOA Governance and WSO2 Registry 1.1

Yesterday on OT, Ruwan Japapriya published a superb article on SOA Governance and the WSO2 Registry v1.1 solution to governance.

Ruwan starts off with an introduction to SOA, the popular architectural style based on open communication standards and loosely-coupled, highly re-usable components known as services. He then builds the case for a governance solution illustrating challenges an SOA implementation could eventually face (as it matures), if governance issues are not addressed earlier on..
The article touches Registry features such access control, service discovery, service life-cycle management, versioning and many more.

A comprehensive document for both the expert and novice, this is a must read for anyone interested in governance and Registry.

Got a Tag Cloud Hanging Over My Blog!

After listening to today's very informative presentation from Samisa, I decided its time to go for the tag cloud in my blog.
The thought had crossed my mind a few times, and I faintly recall making a lazy effort and giving it up very easily.
Not this time..!! With determination come really good search results :), and I found this informative page with very clear descriptions on how to set up and configuration a tag cloud on Blogger post. So go head, use it on yours, and see how it works!

Transparent Windows on Ubuntu

If you hold on to the Alt key while scrolling the middle mouse button, it then allows you to vary window transparency..! This means that you are able to look through the top window that overlapping another to read content without having to switch windows altogether. Cute..

No Paste

I was getting help from Prabath this afternoon to upload some of our Webinar stuff on Slideshare and embedding them on Drupal. During the interaction I asked him for some code information (that was pretty lengthy) and without typing it on the chat window, he went ahead and gave me a URL that pointed to the text that I found interesting. So here it is for you, simple but usefu
no log-ins, no contracts - simply, nopaste. ;)