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.

Eclipse e4 : Next generation of eclipse platform

Great news for eclipse enthusiasts. Eclipse e4 -0.9 is ready for download.

In summary what I have understood now is :
Its a forward looking next generation of eclipse platform which will enable
a) Similar web and desktop user interfaces
Desktop workbench look and feel can be changed by declarative styling. So by using CSS and themes, the desktop app will have web look and feel.


b) Ability to run web components to desktop
c) Ability to run desktop components to web
d) Compatible with Eclipse 3.x platforms

http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4

Audacity of change: Google Wave in context of Collobration

Google this week unveiled Google wave, a game changer collaborative and interactive technology.

This week, I have been following blogs, commentary about Google wave and how it will change collaboration market.
First Impressions

Competitive landscape

Implications of Google wave :

Keeping the euphoria away, Google wave is certainly game changing technology which is disrputive to current collaboration models.

Meri Dharti.. Mera Desh

Had chance to visit my native place.. a serene village Daulachak in middle of Bihar.. Almost walking distance from famous Pawapuri.. Infact when I was kid, we used to see the water temple from roof of our house...

20 years fast forward.. some things have changed.. but the charm of village still remains.. serenity, simple life..


As I was saying my village is very near famous "Jalmandir" in pawapuri..



The river where me and friends used to play..

My formative years.. replayed

My village school ... I spent my formative year in this school.. ( May be not regular..) I would be around 3.5 years old till then.. After that I moved to Allahabad with my father for taking admission..

In recent visit to village .. I had chance to visit alma mater.. The school opened sharp at 9.00 am .. It started all with prayer .. Teachers were too on time ( was that coincidence or they always do?).


The students were well behaved ( do you see whom am pointing to.. ).. This child came to me and asked whom I am.. We started talking and started looking into his book..

The other students also opened their books and started studying.. It was heartening to see these younger minds peeping into books, chatting amongst themselves and may be wondering what I am doing and may be disturbing them..



Then me and my brother visted inside.. The class teacher was very kind enough to give us some time to visit my class where I used to sit on floor and used to follow what master sir used to say..

When we used to study.. we used to sit on floor.. Good to see benches coming in.. both boys and girls studying.. having books.. Indeed a pleasure to see young kids enjoying their class..




After 1/2 hr.. ( worthy one).. I was thinking is this enough.. ?