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Ask the WSIT/Project Tango Experts

As mentioned earlier, Ask the WSIT Experts (Web Services Interoperability Technologies, aka Project Tango) is now live!

Please start shooting your questions and we are ready.

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Week 11 Mileage

Mon: 3.5 miles
Tue: 7 miles
Wed: Rest
Thu: 7 miles
Fri: Strength Training
Sat: 13.5 miles
Sun: Rest

Couple of interesting reads ...

• 8 commandments of Fluid Replacement
• Know Thy Sweat Rate

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13.5 miles run this morning

With only 13 more weeks remaining for the marathon, I did my first 13.5 miles run this morning. The weekend runs are going to get longer only from now onwards.

Miles to go ...

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Sun Web Services @ JavaOne 2007

Follow up post from here.

Here is a complete list of Sun Web services technical sessions/birds-of-feather sessions, including date and time, at JavaOne 2007:

Note, TS-4865 is a repeat session.

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blogs.sun.com turns 3

blogs.sun.com (BSC) is a space available to any Sun Microsystems employee to write about anything. April 27th, 2007 is the third birthday of this space. Below is my contribution:

There is even an aggregator for Sun alumni. Read interesting tidbits over past 3 years in Linda's (engineering program manager for BSC) blog. A complete collection of wishes can be viewed here.

Here is a partial list of ways I've benefited from this personal space:

1. This personal space provides yet another opportunity to communicate effectively with our users.
2. It's because of this personal space, we are able to establish community around GlassFish.
3. It's because of liberty to write about anything on this personal space, I've been able to share my running and photography stories with people I've never known.
4. It's because of this personal space, I got numerous wishes before my first marathon and completed it successfully.
5. It's because of this personal space, a 10-year old friend contacted me yesterday.

The list can go on. This blog is, now, a significant part of my identity

Happy third irthday blogs.sun.com, and congratulations to BSC engineering team!

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How to invoke a WSIT endpoint from a WCF client ?

You've developed a reliable, secure transactional and interoperable Web service using Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT, aka Project Tango) plug-in in NetBeans 5.5.1 and deployed on GlassFish v2. NetBeans IDE provide a very seamless experience to build such a Web service. The primary goal of WSIT is to provide first-class interoperability with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), the Web services component of .NET 3.0 framework. Once the Web service is deployed, you'd like to invoke this Web service by writing a client using Visual Studio. It's not straight forward to do so today and this entry highlights the steps required to do that.

1. If not already done, create a reliable WSIT endpoint and deploy on GlassFish v2 following the screencast #ws3.
2. For creating a WCF client, install the following software
   1. If not using Vista, then install .NET 3.0 Framework runtime.
   2. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (available via MSDN) - There are additional requirements for Express editions (free lightweight versions of Visual Studio)
   3. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition SP1
   4. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition SP1 Update
   5. Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET 3.0 Framework (WCF & WPF), Nov 2006 CTP - For Express editions, Windows Vista SDK is required as well for WCF scenarios.
3. Start Visual Studio
4. Create a new Visual C#, Windows, Console Application. Program.cs is shown in the main Visual Studio window.
5. In Solution Explorer, right-click on the project name and select "Add Service Reference ...". This is the big difference. If you select "Add Web Reference ...", then this creates a proxy and app.config for .NET 2.0 framework. But WSIT is about interoperability with .NET 3.0 framework.
6. Specify the location of the WSIT endpoint, in our case (http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService?wsdl).

7. In the Main function of Program.cs, add the logic to invoke the generated proxy. The code looks like:
   
   using System;
   using System.Collections.Generic;
   using System.Text;
   using ConsoleApplication1.localhost;

   namespace ConsoleApplication1
   {
       class Program
       {
           static void Main(string[] args)
           {
               NewWebServiceClient client = new NewWebServiceClient();
               Console.WriteLine(client.sayHello("Duke"));
           }
       }
   }

8. Build the solution by selecting "Build", "Build Solution" (default shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B).
9. Run ConsoleApplication1\bin\Debug\ConsoleApplication1.exe. This will make a request to WSIT endpoint and get a response back.

The generated app.config file looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <customBinding>
        <binding name="NewWebServicePortBinding">
          <reliableSession acknowledgementInterval="00:00:00.2000000" flowControlEnabled="true"
              inactivityTimeout="00:10:00" maxPendingChannels="4" maxRetryCount="8"
              maxTransferWindowSize="8" ordered="true" />
          <textMessageEncoding maxReadPoolSize="64" maxWritePoolSize="16" 
              messageVersion="Soap11WSAddressing10" writeEncoding="utf-8">
              <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384" 
                  maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
          </textMessageEncoding>
          <httpTransport manualAddressing="false" maxBufferPoolSize="524288"
              maxReceivedMessageSize="65536" allowCookies="false" authenticationScheme="Anonymous"
              bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
              keepAliveEnabled="true" maxBufferSize="65536" proxyAuthenticationScheme="Anonymous"
              realm="" transferMode="Buffered" unsafeConnectionNtlmAuthentication="false"
              useDefaultWebProxy="true" />
        </binding>
      </customBinding>
    </bindings>
    <client>
      <endpoint address="http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService"
          binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="NewWebServicePortBinding"
          contract="ConsoleApplication1.localhost.NewWebService" name="NewWebServicePort" />
    </client>
  </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

Here are the SOAP messages that get exchanged over the wire:

====[com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.server:request]====
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
            xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
  <s:Header>
    <a:Action s:mustUnderstand="1">http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm/CreateSequence</a:Action>
    <a:MessageID>urn:uuid:3429a390-96df-4f26-bd8c-fc85bd8f1858</a:MessageID>
    <a:To s:mustUnderstand="1">http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService</a:To>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <CreateSequence xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
      <AcksTo>
        <a:Address>http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</a:Address>
      </AcksTo>
      <Offer>
        <Identifier>urn:uuid:402432c9-b191-4912-a04a-69bbdbd1b2d3</Identifier>
      </Offer>
    </CreateSequence>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
============
====[com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.server:response]====
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <S:Header>
  <To xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</To>
    <Action xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm/CreateSequenceResponse</Action>
    <MessageID xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">uuid:b51f92ee-9ab9-4a90-a61e-d5dd3a77a0f9</MessageID>
    <RelatesTo xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">urn:uuid:3429a390-96df-4f26-bd8c-fc85bd8f1858</RelatesTo>
  </S:Header>
  <S:Body>
    <ns2:CreateSequenceResponse xmlns:ns6="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" xmlns:ns5="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2006/05/rm" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
      <ns2:Identifier>uuid:d01cff2f-9192-4672-942b-2ec284a93802</ns2:Identifier>
      <ns2:Accept>
        <ns2:AcksTo>
          <ns4:Address>http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService</ns4:Address>
        </ns2:AcksTo>
      </ns2:Accept>
    </ns2:CreateSequenceResponse>
  </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>
============
====[com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.server:request]====
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:r="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
  <s:Header>
    <r:Sequence s:mustUnderstand="1">
      <r:Identifier>uuid:d01cff2f-9192-4672-942b-2ec284a93802</r:Identifier>
      <r:MessageNumber>1</r:MessageNumber>
    </r:Sequence>
    <a:Action s:mustUnderstand="1">sayHello</a:Action>
    <a:MessageID>urn:uuid:d9c8b864-f236-40ad-a4c0-72c42565855f</a:MessageID>
    <a:ReplyTo>
      <a:Address>http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</a:Address>
    </a:ReplyTo>
    <a:To s:mustUnderstand="1">http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService</a:To>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <sayHello xmlns="http://test/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <name xmlns="">Duke</name>
    </sayHello>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
============
====[com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.server:response]====
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <S:Header>
    <To xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</To>
    <Action xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">http://test/NewWebService/sayHelloResponse</Action>
    <MessageID xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">uuid:9091661c-c817-4411-b8aa-7f4f937162da</MessageID>
    <RelatesTo xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">urn:uuid:d9c8b864-f236-40ad-a4c0-72c42565855f</RelatesTo>
    <ns2:Sequence xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2006/05/rm" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
      <ns2:Identifier>urn:uuid:402432c9-b191-4912-a04a-69bbdbd1b2d3</ns2:Identifier>
      <ns2:MessageNumber>1</ns2:MessageNumber>
    </ns2:Sequence>
    <ns2:AckRequested xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2006/05/rm" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
      <ns2:Identifier>urn:uuid:402432c9-b191-4912-a04a-69bbdbd1b2d3</ns2:Identifier>
    </ns2:AckRequested>
    <ns2:SequenceAcknowledgement xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2006/05/rm" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
    <ns2:Identifier>uuid:d01cff2f-9192-4672-942b-2ec284a93802</ns2:Identifier>
    <ns2:AcknowledgementRange Upper="1" Lower="1"></ns2:AcknowledgementRange>
    </ns2:SequenceAcknowledgement>
  </S:Header>
  <S:Body>
    <ns2:sayHelloResponse xmlns:ns2="http://test/">
      <return>Hello Duke</return>
    </ns2:sayHelloResponse>
  </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>
============ 

The same programming model will work for creating a WCF client if you add security or transactions support on the WSIT endpoint.

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New WSIT Blogger

Welcome Ryan! He works on the implementation of WS-Coordination in WSIT.

And he starts his blog with a screencast on how to enable distributed Web services transactions between GlassFish v2 and .NET 3.0.

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Resolved Vista Upgrade Error 80070103

Follow up from here.

After getting bounced around between Microsoft Tech Support and MSDN Tech Support (seem to be separate entities) and collecting almost 5 different toll-free numbers for them, I finally resolved the error with help from a very talented and patient MSDN Tech Support professional.

Basically, the machine had two partitions - one using Windows XP and other Linux. And somehow the Linux partition was coming out as the primary active partition. So every time I was trying to install Vista, whether from within XP or boot from DVD, it was trying to look for an empty space on this partition. And of course it was not able to find any space because this file system is not NTFS. Now when I look at the error message again, it makes sense. But can't the installation process find out that there are multiple partitions, one of them using NTFS, and then provide that information ?

With tech support help, I resolved the issue by deleting and formatting both the partitions. Another way to resolve this was to set Windows XP as the active partition following these instructions.

I almost lost faith in Microsoft Tech Support but this one talented individual helped me restore it.

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Week 10 Mileage - Improved PR on Rancho

Mon: Rest
Tue: 7 miles
Wed: 5 miles
Thu: Rest
Fri: Rain
Sat: 9 miles
Sun: 10 miles

Improved my last week's PR on Rancho to 47:35 going up and a total timing of 1:19:10.

Here are the interesting reads of this time ...

• Plateau Busing Plan - Jump start your weight loss.
• The Diary Diet - Does it work ?
• Get Healthy Calves and Shins - Explains calf pulls, shinsplints, stress fractures, and compartment syndrome
• Get Speedy - Tips from top runners

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XP -> Vista Upgrade: Error 80070103

I've been trying to upgrade an Ultra 20/4 GB RAM with Windows XP + SP2 machine to Windows Vista Ultimate and it's just a plain ugly experience. I've installed Vista on two other machines and it was a much better but this one is the other extreme.

I insert the Vista media in the drive and it pops up a window with an option "Install now". I click on install and then it shows the following error message:

It's hard to understand this error message because the primary drive has 91 GB of free disk space and installed using NTFS. Is the error message trying to convey something else ?

Searched on microsoft.com pointed me to this. But this article is only talking about this error code when installing updates, not updating the whole operating system. Anyway, I installed all the latest updates recommended by Windows Update Center. I also disabled my antivirus software as recommended in "What to know before installing Windows" (even though it's a weird requirement) but this error will not go away.

Tried searching if temp directory is somehow assigned smaller space but didn't find anything on that topic. Not sure if that's even possible.

I posted a question to Vista installation newsgroup. The responses there point to a mismatch (1, 2, 3) between default display drivers provided by Microsoft and nVidia. So I uninstalled the default display driver and installed nVidia's display driver. But still the same error message/number. BTW, the machine has Quadro FX 1400 card.

Then called up nVidia Tech Support. It took them few minutes to figure out that I'm "overwriting" my Window XP with Vista even though I began the call with "I'm upgrading my XP to Vista". Anyway, after the person on tech support understood my issue, I was told to format my Windows XP and then tried installing Vista from scratch! Another quote is "This is definitely a Microsoft problem because Vista is not even getting installed" even though I mentioned that all the links are referring about nVidia driver mismatch. Additionally, nVidia.com main website links to Can your computer run Windows Vista ? which test and reports whether a system can run Windows Vista or not. Interestingly, my laptop (which already has Vista) failed this test at Minimum, Recommended and Optimal level. And the machine on which I'm trying to install Vista passes this test at Minimum level but still giving this weird error.

Finally I called up Microsoft Tech Support and they transferred me to MSDN tech support which close at 5:30pm PT on weekdays.

As a result, I'm stuck this weekend waiting for MSDN tech support to open up Monday morning and then will follow up.

Is Windows Vista really ready for prime time for any serious application ?

UPDATE: Submitted a bug here.

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AJAX vs Ajax - Ajax ofcourse!

Ajax is a popular term for past few months but is still being written incorrectly as "AJAX" (all capitals) instead of "Ajax" (camel case). I started using AJAX but then corrected myself and have been using Ajax since then. So the correct term is Ajax, not AJAX.

Here is a list of several reasons (some mine and others from my colleague Rick's list):

1. Jesse James Garrett coined the term as Ajax, not AJAX.
   1. A quote from the source "The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML". It is intended to be a shorthand, not an acronym. And notice it is "+", not an "and" indicating a collection of technologies.
   2. Another quote from the source "I needed something shorter than “Asynchronous JavaScript+CSS+DOM+XMLHttpRequest” to use when discussing this approach with clients.". Ajax is not just Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, it's CSS and DOM as well. Moreover JSON is becoming a more popular format for data interchange. Should "AJAX" then instead be coined as "AJAJ" ? Or if an application happen to use Text instead, will they call it as "AJAT" ?
   3. In an interview on The story behind Ajax, Jesse said "I thought of Ajax as a convenient [term]. It was never intended as an acronym.".

I think the above three bullets should be sufficient to convince anybody to use "Ajax" instead of "AJAX". But if not, here are some more reasons to switch to the correct usage of term:

2. Wikipedia entry clarifies that Ajax is not expected to be an acronym.
3. A Google Fight between AJAX and Ajax shows exactly same numbers and still tries to predict a winner. Is that a bug ?
4. Another reference to Ajax vs AJAX.
5. Bye Bye "AJAX", The Age of "Ajax" is Nigh - If AJAX is indeed an acronym (which it's not) then a comment on the article points out some others as:
   AJACX: Asynchronous JavaScript, CSS and XMLHttpRequest
   ADJACS: Asynchronous DOM, JavaScript and CSS
   ADHJACS: Asynchronous DOM, HTML, JavaScript and CSS
   AJACHS: Asynchronous JavaScript, HTML and CSS
   AJACS: Asynchronous JavaScript, HTML and CSS
6. Dion's (Ajaxian co-founder) first prediction for 2007 is "Ajax beats AJAX in all but bad newspapers."
7. Here is a Google survey of some publishers of Ajax books. They all seem to be using "Ajax", not "AJAX".
   • Addison Wesley Professional  
   • O'Reilly Media, Inc.
   • Manning Publications Co.
   • Apress, Inc.
   • Wrox (John Wiley & Sons, Inc)
8. Some of the common vendors use Ajax
   1. IBM
   2. HP
   3. Oracle
   4. BEA
   5. Adobe

Now there should be no reason to use "AJAX". However if you still feel like using this term, please leave a comment on this blog and let's talk. There are some incorrect usages in sun.com and I'll follow up to get them fixed.

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What's New @ JavaOne 2007

JavaOne 2007 is 18 days away and fever is building. Here is what's new at the conference this year ...

• CommunityOne (Monday, May7th) is a free, one-day event for open source and web developers that delivers technical information on free and open source projects including, NetBeans, OpenSolaris, GlassFish, OpenJDK and the Mobile & Embedded Community. You can find more details about GlassFish Day here. Registration includes free pass to first day of JavaOne.
• Java Technology Business Day (Tuesday, May 8th) is designed for business and marketing leaders at companies delivering Java-based products, including software, hardware, content and services. Register today for $350.
• JavaOne Camp (Tuesday & Wednesday, May 8th & 9th) is an unconference for you, by you. JavaOne Camp, on Tuesday and Wednesday evening, is a general assembly where attendees can propose the discussions that they're interested in leading. Click here to register for this event (free for conference attendees).
• Java Technology in TV (Thursday, May 10th), aka Blu-ray Disc and Cable Day, is a special track of sessions and events around digital television software technologies. So if you would like to learn more about exciting content development opportunities in digital television, or if you're a current television developer to gain knowledge and skills applicable to OCAP, Blu-ray Disc-J, and related java technologies, register today for $350. Blu-ray Disc and Cable Day attendees will also gain admission to Thursday evening's Java After Dark event and Friday morning's General Session with James Gosling.
• .org Pavilion is a pavilion space dedicated to featuring FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) communities that are driving Java innovation. Registration still open and details here.

Besides all these, JavaOne Conference is becoming more eco-friendly by initiating a significant virtual campaign and printing on recycled paper using soy-based inks. A total of 712 trees are saved with complete details here. And then of course, there is usual frenzy of general sessions (aka keynote), early morning to late night technical sessions/bofs, pavilion (reduced hours this time), hands-on-labs, Java University, After Dark and many other activities.

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GlassFish @ JUG report

As reported earlier, GlassFish team presented at Silicon Valley Java Users Group / Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG -AT- GooglePlex yesterday. The slides can be downloaded here.

Mike Van Riper, co-leader of Web JUG opened few minutes after 7 and then until 9pm we had some interesting discussions/demos around integrated NetBeans tooling experience, Web services support, .NET interoperability, monitoring, clustering, and many other topics. Thanks to everybody who attended. Feel free to leave a comment on this blog if you attended and liked it or would like us to improve.

Thanks to Abhijit for arranging the give-aways!

Here are some more references to validate our position:

• GlassFish FAQ - Why name GlassFish and others ?
• Performance benchmarks between Axis2 and JAX-WS RI
• GlassFish v2 schedule
• Different options for support on GlassFish
  • Post a question to GlassFish forum (FREE - require java.net id)
  • Send an email to users@glassfish.dev.java-DOT-net (FREE - require subscription to the alias with java.net id)
  • You can buy support for Sun Java System Application Server, the product version of GlassFish, here.
  • Or else, you can leave a comment on this blog and I'll redirect to the appropriate channel (FREE and require no registration

Let us know if you'll be interested in a similar talk in your community.

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Ask The Tango Experts

Harold, Marek and I will be answering your questions on Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT), aka Project Tango, in an Ask The Expert session during the week of April 30.

Project Tango, part of GlassFish v2, provides secure, reliable, transactional and interoperable Web services with Microsoft .NET 3.0 framework. So get your inquisitive minds working and collect your questions about the inner workings of the code, NetBeans WSIT plug-in, plug-fest experience, about the team or any thing that strikes your fancy related to Project Tango. We will do our best to answer all the questions. If you cannot wait, feel free to shoot an email to dev-AT-wsit.dev.java.net or post a question on WSIT Forum. The complete archive will be available after the session.

And of course, check out our complete Web services session lists at JavaOne 2007. And stop by to chat if you attend any of the session!

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Spring Flowers

Follow up here.

Spring is now approx 4 weeks old and here are some more pictures from the neighborhood.

I hope we continue to see these and more flowers blossoming in the season, specially since Mercury News has declared drought. My son is a big "water saver" following three steps:

• 2 minute shower instead of regular 10 minutes (less time and water, both precious at this stage)
• Not opening the tap fully when washing hands and washing them quickly.
• Planning to get less number of plants from Home Depot and even those that need less water

He even pasted a note in our living room and asked all his friends to save water. Drop by drop, we will all get through it.

I plan to post more tips on water saving in subsequent entries.

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