The Next Step

I have been working on my next project for quite sometime now .Its called CrossBow and the project is just as interesting as way the name was conceived.                                                                            
Just makes me wonder sometimes whether writing codes is difficult or coining a name of it?
Anyway,
Cossbow actually provides a way to set up all the network devices like Switches, Routers,Hosts but Virutally!!!Think its a disadvantage? think again...
How cool would it be to actually see packets travelling across IPs without having to set up 2 independent systems for it????. Well you can do that now!

The entire Virtual network is created by using the CrossBow technology the overview can be found here,
and the documentation here.
The necessary hosts are created using Zones.

During this project I was introduced to a language called "Ruby"  and it truly is one Gem of a language! The "good" just kept on coming with the onset of YAML (Yaml aint a markup language). (who ever said coding for life was a pain?.Like they say, when it rains it pours!

Anyway currently the Ruby libraries are capable of,
-Creating the Virtual Switches
-Creating Virtual NICs
-Setting up the various properties for each of the Vnics and aggregate them!

Sunay's blog has excellent write up to acclimatize anyone with the working of CrossBow.Take a look at it!
Thats it for now,

Keep you posted on the developments!

Yup, I Won!!!

So we as CAs are taught so many things from Sun folks .Its hard to imagine people can be this friendly and Humble.I am yet to see people more humble than them!! (If they even exist)
.Now that I was (And still am) doing my Internship as a CA I got an opportunity to work with
Moinak Gosh (The architect of Belenix) over the last Summer.

The project aimed at providing a "RAM based boot for Belenix0.7" . The complete details can be found a few posts down.!
But when the "Opensource Community Innovation awards" was announced, it was like a hot cake  thats was too good to let go.And so I sent my works on Belenix .
And what do you ,I WON!!                                                                                                                        The Winning contest entries are announced here . (perhaps it was the best day yet)
A brief Intro of all the Award recipients are here.

PS: Well that day was beyond belief .What followed in the evening and all through the night was perhaps "pure delight of Insanity" (If you know what i mean ) 
A hearty Thanks to everybody who helped me!

SUN Rocks!!!!!