Sunday, August 23, 2009

Good Books to Read

Like everyone else, I am also trying to read good and getting some inspiration from those ones:
1) My experiments with Truth - MK Gandhi - The best I have ever read
2) Celebrating Silence - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
3) Business of Freedom - Sandeep Singh(www.swastiks.blogspot.com)
http://indianoceanstrategy.com/services.php
4) Think and Grow Rich
5) The Magic of Thinking Big

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Win 7


As the Win 7 is hitting news with good and bad news, it is obvious that many technology reviewers will be putting it at their sites.

I am just sharing wit you what I found on a web site, a good overview about the way Win 7 is structured:

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Adoption of S Curve






We must have read somewhere about S Curve, which explains that how technology is getting absorbed into the society.( This is true for almost for the any other kind of concept also:))


which have devived people into the following catergoies:


1) Innovators - Techies


2) Early Adopters - Visionaries


3) Early Majority - Pragmatists


4) Late Majority - Conservaties


5) Laggards - Skeptics




The following diagrams also similarly describes about how the testing services fit into this S Curve:



Social Colloboration

As was propaged by Web 2.0 that the world will eb lead bu Social colloboration, that has been surely cashed on by many companies who have just bec ome too big in just last 5 years like
YouTube, Orkut. Likedin.com, Twitter, MySpace.com, FaceBook, RSS etc. We can see that these kind of social networking sites are surely making lot bigger business than many other businesses. I feel that at this stage, we are right now just scratching the surface of the big pile of the power Web 2.0 As we slowly transition to the Web 3.0, you will find that smarter software will enable much after transition to the social networking
These thoughts are very randonm, but out them together in a more cohenrant passion as get more time

VISTA INDIA (Empowering Women)


Dear Ones,
Pitaji,our beloved Guruji's father, at the age of 86 has initiated and completed many projects to educate and empower many a village girl's child. He has now has identified 33 villages Sirsi village district of Karnataka, to give basic education in reading and writing, and empowering ladies by teaching them how to stitch, tailor clothes and helping them in selling their products. Pitaji is appealing one and all to come and help get machines to assist in this particular project. Each of these machines cost Rs. 3000. I would really appreciate it if you could be a part of this noble endeavour. Please let me know if you would like to do so. You can give your donation by cheques drawn on "VISTA INDIA". Please write your name and address at the back of the cheque and send it to us at:
Rajeev Chaudhary
C/OAban Batliwala F-303 Adarsh Residency, 47th Cross 8th Block,Jaynagar,
Bangalore Karnataka 560082

Performance testing of Flex Based Applications

Since the RIA applications has been overtaking the front end designs of most of the web sites, so comes our challenges of testing the application. I have few documents which I am sending you on Flex Load testing. Please share if you have anything in hand. Flex is one the implementation technologies in the RIA field by Adobe Systems. Flex embedded in the Flash Player has almost of the 90% of the market. The good news is that Adobe has made the documentation of protocol – RTMP public after keeping it a secretly guarded for many many years. Benchmarking Flash Player 10 (Updated)

http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2008/10/benchmarking-flash-player-10.ars

LR 9.5 now supports in the following protocols:
1. Adobe® Action Message Format (AMF v3)
2. Adobe® Real-time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)
3. Adobe® Flex 2 and Flex 3
4. Ajax

Another interesting document produced by RIA by Webload is as follows:www.radview.com/.../Load%20Testing%20Web%202.0%20Technologies%20%5BWhitepaper%5D.pdf

Basics about RTMP and AMF:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocolhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Message_Formathttp://www.richnetapps.com/category/flash-actionscript/

Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) is a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe Systems for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server.The RTMP protocol has three variations:The "plain" protocol which works on top of TCP and uses port number 1935RTMPT which is encapsulated within HTTP requests to traverse firewallsRTMPS which works just like RTMPT, but over a secure HTTPS connection.At a higher level, the RTMP encapsulates MP3 and Flash Video multimedia streams, and can make remote procedure calls (RPCs) using the Action Message Format.The RTMP defines several channels on which packets may be sent/received, and which operate independently of each other. For example, there is a channel dedicated for handling RPC requests and responses, a channel for video stream data, a channel for audio stream data, a channel for out-of-band control messages (fragment size negotiation, etc.), and so on. During a typical RTMP session, several channels may be active simultaneously at any given time. When RTMP data is packetized, a packet header is generated.Action Message Format or AMF is a binary format based loosely on the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). It is used primarily to exchange data between an Adobe Flash application and a database, using a Remote Procedure Call.Each AMF message contains a body which holds the error or response, which will be expressed as an ActionScript Object.
If you are not able to make out much from the Adobe produced documents, then nothing to worry, even I also could not make out anythingJ

Innovation in IT service Companies

Folks:
I am going throuhg this artcile which mentions that Symphony services are innovation based company. When I read this line, I felt that they are almost like any other who are typical outsourcers, but keep on showing on their websites that websites are they promote innovation in their delivery model. After reading through their website, I can that model which is being delpoyed in promoting innovation internally is definitely lot more mature than most of he service companies. That is why they have succedded in their efforts:
"Like the majority of info-tech companies, Symphony Services emphasizes innovation, but its outcome-based business model really forces it to deliver the goods. In the past 18 months, clients have accepted 2,000 ideas—ranging from improving processes to creating IP—and implemented 500; 33 ideas have been patented"
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2009/08/_putting_your_m.html
This seems that this is definietly a way out for the services( technology) companies to come out of regular low value chain works and prove tehmsleves what like many other product companies hhave proved themselves.
Rupesh