Fourth Paradigm, an E-Sceince book by MSR

Microsoft Research has published this book "Fourth Paradigm", which describes how to handle very large data sets. If you are interested in E-Science use cases, this seems very good reading. It is partly based on Jim Gary's last work. The book is free and can be downloaded from here.

Beautiful Sri Lanka

Couple of shots I was able to get on the way.



Parrots




Kingfisher



Peacock, hope I will find one in its dance, one day.



Ruwanwali Saya

@ Jaffna

We were @ Jaffna last weekend, following are few shots. If you are planning to go a) it takes about 14-16hours drive b) it is good if you have a SUV/Pickup as some parts of the road is not in that good condition (around Vavuniya). c) You have to leave Elephant pass by 5pm on your way back.


Nallur Kovil



Waiting on A9 for Clearance



A9, almost at the end of road. Not many roads in SL run for 300+kms (it is 200kmX400km almost).



Elephant Pass




Tal Trees, Signature of Jaffna



Iranamadu Tank

Nice Sequence Diagram Tool

Found http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ very natural to use, handy tool when you want to describe a scenario.

Binary-Relay: An Efficient way to pass both XML and non-XML content through Apache Synapse

Finally got the article done on Binary Relay, which enables Apache Synapse/WSO2 ESB to pass through non-xml data (and xml data if they need to) at the byte level--a very useful tool when using Synapse/WSO2 ESB as a load balancer. It can be enabled by adding a message formatter and a builder to Axis2 via axis2.xml. Read the article for more details.

A new Book on Geronimo

A new book on Geronimo, Apache Geronimo 2.1: Quick Reference, has came out, and I received a complementary copy. More details soon.

LSF DCache wins an award at e-Swabhimani

More details in Sunday times article.