Goals of Eclipse E4 project

Today I started reading about Eclipse E4 goals and started to self note some of my understanding:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4

The goals are described in : http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Vision#Goals
http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/4/4d/2009BankingDayLondon_e4.pdf

One the key statements made in white paper is :
http://www.eclipse.org/e4/resources/e4-whitepaper.php

" It was easy to add or remove components from the system, but often quite difficult to take a component designed for one application or runtime environment and reuse it in a completely different application or environment."

One of the interesting topic is to : Enable Eclipse as set of application services
http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Eclipse_Application_Services

A day @ Karpewadi - Rezendvous with Arabic sea

After cup of hot tea/coffee, afternoon nap of kids.. the time had come around 4.30 PM to enjoy beach activities and Samanyu started his rezendvous with Arabic sea.

The sea ( like always) was breathtaking.. Every one started to enjoy the nature beauty.. The whole scene was worth money and time. MJ and team started to get their T4 match.. where everything is only 4. Overs 4, Team members 4 and wickets 4 .. you can well expand on. ( try figure out how wickets can be 4, note its PJ but there were more PJ's which were following in night... ex. SharonStone) . Bharat & Prady were stars on the T4 show with every ball vanishing eventhough the ball was still in bowler's hand..

I being born spectator, was working through my handycam following Pushpa and Samanyu.. He was particularly busy in figuring out how his feet gets dipped in sand when wave were receding by and why not these waves were coming.. :-) He was having the constant urge to go deep into sea and touch the waves with hands and sea would also be feeling happy to see new visors on their shore to oblige him in return.

In other part of beach, our fairer part of team were enjoying dips in further way in sea. The further they ventured in cosy waters, the deeper MJ heart sank.. ( being aware of manager responsibilities ).

In mean time, Anaya and Anishka on the their quest to collect beautiful shells had managed to have handful of colorful, all type shape shells in their basket. Sirish also joined the kids party and all of them drew shapes , fish, sea, sun paintings..

Dhanshree was busy perfecting her camera skills and cricketing shots.. ( I wonder how perfection can be perfected.. ) Preeti, her husband & (me and Pushpa) took leisure walk along sandy sea patch the waves listening to roaring sea perhaps thinking of relationships ( including all..) can be as deep and as boundless as sea.

The evening culminated "water dance" .. with creativity at best.. and night with PJ rounds, "gup-shup@cards" and campfire.

A Day @ Karperwadi : LiveBand Unplugged

12 Dec happened to be a day out of LotusLive and CIO team at Karpewadi.. It was great day to start with.. and all of us were looking forward to exciting trip.

The whole team had great enthu to start with .. Also my darling Samanyu was travelling on his first beach trip, so he was also pretty excited for his first "beach picnic". Also Lotuslive team were eagerly waiting to meet their "password" friend. If you don't know the story of "password".. ask LotusLive team :-)

The whole team was Liveband to say the least.. All of us started with Antakshari . Sachin, Bharat, Saumya .. I don't recall the name of one song , but it must had been sung for atleast 20 times.. After getting bored with his mom and dad, Samanyu made his fast friends.. Bharat "Bhaiya" and Saumya "Didi"..

When we reached there, ever smiling Anurag with his CIO team were already there. All of us had drinks. After the lunch, it was time to start enjoying Karpewadi.. the greenary, cottages, coconut trees, with hammocks and the majestic Arabian sea crashing in your backyard.

The area was particularly pretty clean .. which I liked the most. I donned the cap of playing games with Kids : Samanyu, Sirish, Anaya and Anushka.

Anushka , Anaya and Samanyu started to play "pittu pittu" with Ananth, Dhanshree. One was taking the aim and other were hiding behind trees, running in all directions there like small bees and then arranging the pittu. Ananth as always gave enough time to these little stars to arrange their pittu.

I tried helping kids to play baby golf with sandpit and asked them to put the ball in that pit. And wonder who really put the ball in.. It was "Anaya".. Anurag's youngest daughter.

There were other games like football, dodgeball , half tip cricket which we all enjoyed.The dodgeball was pretty fascinating one, thanks to MJ who had a swirling arm hitting everyone in opponents team :-). There was halftip cricket where Ketki tried her bowling assisted by her little Umpire.

In afternoon, all of us took the tea break relaxing outside the cottage. The team mates were enjoying hummock with hot sip of tea.

The beach cricket.. again Mrityunjay was bowling his heart out.
Abhay was pretty controlled on his length. and then came Anurag and what I see, that he is lefty. I was feeling nice of being him lefty.. :-) Samanyu had a company to share with on cricket.

The sun with horizon on the back was beauty to watch.. It was scenic, pretty clean and vast strech of sand as far as I could see.


The adventures of the team will continue .. See you in next post.. Till then enjoy.

Links for day

11 open source companies to watch

http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/110909-open-source-companies-list.html#top

Virtualization Vs Clustering

I stumped into a question that what's is virtualization and how is different than clustering. Both are basically ways to achieve the server consolidation.
So start with what is virtualization.

Virtualization is ability to have different operating systems on a a single machine.. to put it very simplistically.. Its about how you do resource management of basic hardware box cpu, memory, network and storage.


Clustering is norm of server consolidation of enabling group of machines to behave as cluster.