Scorpion's Corner
VirtualBox
The latest version of VirtualBox is released on Feb 16th. This blog item is right from the same box, I could use Windows Live Writer in Windows XP which is my guest system while the host system is Open Solaris.
The whole experience is truly amazing!!! You can have best of the worlds in each operating systems from single desktop..
Try it out today!
Posted at 04:43PM Feb 27, 2009 by Narayana Rallabandi in Sun | Comments[0]
Day 2: Sun Tech Days - Hyderabad
Today's highlights from my perspective are
- Matt Thompson's presentation on cloud computing -- Matt explained the bits and pieces of cloud computing, Sun's offering in cloud computing stack. The most interesting piece for the development community is how the computing going to transform the way we code. Project Kenai and Project Zembly.
- Chck's presentation on Java FX, which is coherent, ordered and informative
- Simons presentation was very informative on Java performance..
Project Kenai doe's just offer site for pushing in the code like sourceforge, but it offers the full development stage including desktop,offers for choosing OS, build environment, test environment all on the cloud apart from the development tools like Netbeans. This offers the developers to choose the environment they want to develop, test deploy with out paying a penny out of their pocket. Just have Internet connection and create a company with zero cost. Have a distributed team over the net use the Sun's cloud facility to host your idea.
Project Zembly is another innovation from Sun which gives the users the power to create the widgets for social applications and share them with their family, friends and the whole world. The demo by Vidya on stage with Matt proved that simple social application can be developed previewed just on the browser without any other paraphernalia like IDE, runtime to test on the developer's machine. So the Browser happens to be the dev place ..
And when we think of the possibilities which these 2 innovations can bring to the way we think about apart from other things to the software development its awesome!!!!
Out of the stalls from the students, I liked the one from MS Ramaiah college of Bangalore, which have done a POC on Network Management solution available on web services. I spoke to them regarding ideology of Network Virtualization in the Management paradigm.
Apart from that I had few good discussions with the attendees for the yesterday's session on Open-ESB. The questions centered around why should they choose Open-ESB while they have other alternatives also in open source. I would like to post the answers though in some other posts..
Evening entertainment is from Abhi which was simply scintillating and enthralling the crowed. I have some pics for you!
Posted at 10:06PM Feb 19, 2009 by Narayana Rallabandi in Sun | Comments[0]
Sun Tech days Day 1 at Hyderabad
Sun Tech days started today in a gala fashion today at HICC center defying the economic downturn. For Sun Hyderabad is important since the developer participation is resembles JavaOne the biggest developer conference in size, number of tracks its offering apart from hands on labs.
The presence of James Gosling for this event says how much important this event in India is for Sun. James delivered key note spoke on lot of technologies but the most interesting for me are the following in the following order:
- Real time java -- because of the sheer technical challenges it poses like predictability. Just imagine how can you predict the Garbage collection in such a scenario or handling of thread priority ...
- Ubiquitous computing and the power of Java
- Java FX -- bringing the power of rich client experience that's much needed for Java plat form. The small game demo which he showed on his mobile apart from Chuck lee's another small presentation on FX again really were eye catchers...
- Java 7 -- and what's coming there.
The crowd is still fantastic during these times and Sun I believe is very successful in pulling so much.. Kudos to the event organizers.
On a personal note I presented Open - ESB on Enterprise Track. Seemingly went well I 'll be posting the site so that you can download the preso!
The night party started with a wonderful performance from the trio (see below for pics) and ended with a fashion show from Rahul's team which was received with enthusiasm from the crowd.
Glimpse of the crowed during the inaugural session
Father of Java speaking to Hyderabad Sun Tech Days crowed
The wonderful kids Siddhardh (11) on percussion, Raja Reddy on Guitar and Sastry on Casio
Posted at 12:30AM Feb 19, 2009 by Narayana Rallabandi in Sun | Comments[3]
Glassfish Portfolio Announced
Sun announced its Glassfish Portfolio which can be called its middle tier continuum yesterday. You can peek at whats there in that from the link: Sun GlassFish Portfolio - What's Inside
Though its a bit tough with respect what does it mean by each of the globes that are on the page currently, once you go through the details you can see that its almost akin to the previous JES stack. The additions being the ESB since the integration layer was not there previously and the communication server (SIP Servlet based). Apart from that it's integrated web stack contains of popular open-source, Web-tier infrastructure
technologies such as Apache HTTP server, MySQL, memcached, PHP, and
Ruby optimized for the Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux platforms.
Some of the enterprise features like profiling with Enterprise Manager which comes with subscriptions (Sun offers for this portfolio flexible subscription-based pricing) .
Give it a try TODAY!!!
Posted at 12:20AM Feb 12, 2009 by Narayana Rallabandi in Sun | Comments[0]
A Week to go for Sun Tech Days at Hyderabad
The biggest tech event out side US for Sun is coming soon from 18th to 20th of February 2009.
For more information about Sun Tech Days and to view tentative agenda topics and registering for the event visit http://www.sercononline.com/suntechdays09/index.htm
Posted at 09:12PM Feb 10, 2009 by Narayana Rallabandi in Sun | Comments[0]
