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

Life

Normally I do not have the urge to write so passinately, as I am having. May be teh cycel is that I am going through so many internal pressures. You never realise that things can change so damatically so much in your life; that life looks almost ups and down. Still I know that this is not end of life and we have to move on. Whether it is in terms of the career, family, personal likings etc. Every difficult step comes with an idea to make you more mature and ripe in life and I am sure that this will one of those chnages. This year of 2009 almost looks like year of 2006, in which I had seen so much turbulence in my life. The only difference I can narrate is that chnages in this year are brought by circumstances, while that year was led by me. There is soemthing like a feeling being fulfilled in life, which has almost disappeared these days and total anxiety has taken over; but surely makes me toil day and night tirelessly. I know that this road is long, I am surly going to sail through it.

Blogs on Agriculture Issues in India

Even though India is country whose more than 70% of the population is dependent on farming or farming related profession, but I have felt that the issues related to this sector are normally ignored or are being given very little attention by the mainstream media. Many newspaper have the terrible habit of mentioning that what happened to the various models in US/Europe, have no heart to mention that why thousands are farmers are committed suicide in last 10-15 years which is rarely seen in this country. I have known 2 people since last almost 10 years who have worked tirelessly and who have tried to bring their plight through mainstream media also.
Guess who?
They are P. Sainath and Devender Sharma
You are read more about their thoughts at
http://www.indiatogether.org/opinions/psainath/
http://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/

Excellent Blogs on Testing

Creating blogs in any profession is considered a Unique effort, the same hols true also for Software Testing:) If you search on Google, you can find too many options over there, but finding blogs which truly represent sth unique in the filed are very rare to find. Last wee, I sumbled upon few blogs from MSDN, which I felt that kind of "Out of the Box", hence sharing those ones with you.

http://blogs.msdn.com/james_whittaker

http://blogs.msdn.com/euanga

http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas

http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara

http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley

http://blogs.msdn.com/billbar

http://blogs.msdn.com/densto

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools

http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management