I need to thank few. Jade Dominguez for developing the  “the-program” theme, I grabbed the idea from it. A huge thank to Teague, the awesome designer who gave me some tips and made me a cartoon of myself :P

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The post is about creating a dashboard to display event notifications using few of WSO2 Technologies. Requirement : Capture events from an event sender and display it in a dashboard Used Technologies : WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus, WSO2 Application Server, WSO2 Gadget Server Architecture : In brief, events are generated randomly, ESB will act as an event sink, and it will publish the events to the subscribed parties (to a service deployed in WSO2 AS). There is a gadget deployed in WSO2 Gadget Server where it will … Continue reading

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Recently I had to draw some solutions architecture diagrams, and searched some good tools for diagramming. I have used Visio, long time back, nice tool, but I wanted to stick to Ubuntu and didn’t like switching back and forth. I tried Dia and Umbrello but they couldn’t really content me. What I really digged in a nice architecture diagram is mainly its simplicity (Simple way the complex scenarios are drawn), fresh, elegant and rich look, as for a diagramming tool, it has to be … Continue reading

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At WSO2 we are busy with something new for the new year :) and we have just pushed the milestone-1 of it, not so complete but you can sure taste it. Everybody knows that WSO2 is big on Web Services, but over the years we have seen that the barrier between Web Services and Web Applications hasn’t been lowered. “Jaggery” is an effort to diminish this barrier and to merge the development process of services and applications. By definition it is … Continue reading

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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They … Continue reading

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Well, maybe I am too late to write this post; but hopefully I will be able to discard a misconception in some of you. As you all know by now WSO2Con starts tomorrow and goes on till Friday (16/09). Its a great tech feast, and there weren’t many such in recent history in Sri Lanka. Maybe am not the best person to write all the good stuff about it and asking you to take my word. But if I forget … Continue reading

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Conference at a glance

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Wanted to share it even though its already in TechCrunch :)

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I did a small test today; I checked out the actual “img src” link of a picture in my facebook profile, and kept is saved. I deleted the picture from my profile and again checked the link I saved via the “img src”, and freakishly its still available. I don’t know if this is temporal, maybe it takes time to update the cache (hmmm whats up with that too ;) ). Anyways what does this mean ?? Frankly I don’t … Continue reading

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