"Mashups are the rock stars of personal productivity..." starts the press release on WSO2's session at SOAWorld 2008.
Talking about "Mashups - Bringing Springtime to Your SOA" is Jonathan Marsh, the visionary behind the WSO2 Mashup Server who is now WSO2's VP of Business Development, but still very much a Mashupper at heart! If you're in the area or already at SOAWorld and want to learn how to improve your SOA, increase productivity and enjoy doing it, don't miss this!
When: Thursday, November 20, 2:20-3:05 p.m.
Where: SOAWorld 2008, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA
While on the subject of Rock Stars. rumor has it that Nemesis have made it to the finals of OnStage. Hope to be there to see them win!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Why I'm glad Obama won
No, It's got nothing to do with the party he represents. I'm not a democrat or republican, I'm not even American!
Neither do I think there will be any direct or immediate benefit to me. As a Software Engineer in Sri Lanka I'm not overjoyed when someone talks about not giving tax breaks to US companies that outsource; if he actually does that he's probably going to make things worse for the IT industry here, not better!
It's not the whole person-of-color thing either. Yes, I have dark brown skin, but wasn't happy when Lewis Hamilton became Formula One World Champ this year and hate Timo Glock for making him that! From the beginning Lewis came across as such a media wh**e, to me he's almost like Paris Hilton but with real talent. I didn't celebrate the first black formula one champion's victory.
Why then?
It's because whether the rest of us like it or not America has the world's biggest economy and most powerful military and it's better for everybody if someone with a little intelligence is in charge.
It's because this time the Americans seem to have kept the problems their country is facing in mind in the voting booth, and chosen the pair of candidates who seemed to have the better solution, instead of the ones who said "What problems? America is awesome and we're more religious, patriotic and real-American, so vote for us!" Gives us all hope!
It's because Obama can and does inspire; I just watched his 2004 keynote and yesterday's acceptance speeches and they actually motivated me, someone completely outside his target audience, and got me believing in the change that's coming. Hey, he's got me writing this post, so I can only imagine the effect he'll have on actual Americans as their president!
I've always had a lot of respect for Putin; ex. secret agent, Judo black belt, got a country back on it's feet from the brink of collapse and so on. Suddenly America has a cool president too! Damn, now everybody's gonna want one!
Neither do I think there will be any direct or immediate benefit to me. As a Software Engineer in Sri Lanka I'm not overjoyed when someone talks about not giving tax breaks to US companies that outsource; if he actually does that he's probably going to make things worse for the IT industry here, not better!
It's not the whole person-of-color thing either. Yes, I have dark brown skin, but wasn't happy when Lewis Hamilton became Formula One World Champ this year and hate Timo Glock for making him that! From the beginning Lewis came across as such a media wh**e, to me he's almost like Paris Hilton but with real talent. I didn't celebrate the first black formula one champion's victory.
Why then?
It's because whether the rest of us like it or not America has the world's biggest economy and most powerful military and it's better for everybody if someone with a little intelligence is in charge.
It's because this time the Americans seem to have kept the problems their country is facing in mind in the voting booth, and chosen the pair of candidates who seemed to have the better solution, instead of the ones who said "What problems? America is awesome and we're more religious, patriotic and real-American, so vote for us!" Gives us all hope!
It's because Obama can and does inspire; I just watched his 2004 keynote and yesterday's acceptance speeches and they actually motivated me, someone completely outside his target audience, and got me believing in the change that's coming. Hey, he's got me writing this post, so I can only imagine the effect he'll have on actual Americans as their president!
I've always had a lot of respect for Putin; ex. secret agent, Judo black belt, got a country back on it's feet from the brink of collapse and so on. Suddenly America has a cool president too! Damn, now everybody's gonna want one!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Mashup Screencast 3: Service Composition
In this, the last of his original trilogy of screencasts, Jonathan continues and concludes the example he used in the two previous installments, by explaining service composition via-a-vis the WSO2 Mashup Server.
One inherent advantage of using web services is the ability to compose or orchestrate and the screencast shows how easy it is to do this using the WSO2 Mashup Server. You'll learn how to use auto-generated stubs to access other services that you wish to compose, manipulate the response from an operation using E4X and schedule periodic service invocation using our implementation of setTimeout function.
As usual, if you don't have the bandwidth to watch the high-res version, you can view the YouTube clip below instead.
One inherent advantage of using web services is the ability to compose or orchestrate and the screencast shows how easy it is to do this using the WSO2 Mashup Server. You'll learn how to use auto-generated stubs to access other services that you wish to compose, manipulate the response from an operation using E4X and schedule periodic service invocation using our implementation of setTimeout function.
As usual, if you don't have the bandwidth to watch the high-res version, you can view the YouTube clip below instead.
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