Well its been awhile; I was ashamed to look at my blog. I used to blog more often, about something came up to my mind or something interesting I have done. But for few months I didn’t even look at my blog. Okey so am trying to reason it out here.
For me writing is like meditating, its wired that I couldn’t find one solid peaceful half an hour for last couple of months. Anyhow I was thinking, if I should close down the blog; and forget about it all to gather. It was not that I wasn’t doing anything interesting, or that I didn’t wona share what I found. Its simply I was busy (Very busy 
) and I had a social media at my disposal where I can share my thoughts in 140 characters.
Yeah so I guess twitter is the culprit. 
, I found some interesting reads at merebagatelle and at shanenickerson; second one is funny and if you tweet alot you know its quite true
Any ho, I wont abandon the blog; guess I cant; its like my identity on the web, Ill find some time, and before I ruin the idea on twitter I’ll try to write a blog and tweet that for a change.
Cheers
This is a short post aiming to notify the new features of WSO2 Gadget Server 1.3.0 which was released recently. The product is popular among the community as a gadget rendering platform, which provides a presentation layer for heterogeneous enterprise services based on Google Gadgets Specification and Apache Shindig. As an enterprise presentation product, the Gadget server is now fully fledged with number of awaited features such as,
- Custom Layouts (1, 2, 3 column customization)
- Themeing support (customize the look and feel)
- Role based permissions (Now gadgets can be restricted based on user roles)
- SOAP request support (Gadgets can now perform SOAP web service calls)
- Tooling integration with Carbon Studio (gadgets can be deployed as archives created via CStudio)
- Integration to WSO2 Visualization framework (WSO2Vis)
And some of the important features of WSO2 Gadget Server are,
- Enterprise Gadget Repository
- OAuth Support
- Inter-Gadget communication
- i18n Support
- WSO2 Carbon platform level support such as,
- Clustering,
- Monitoring
- Userstore integration (AD, LDAP)
- Registry space
Try out The Gadget Server 1.3.0, and provide your feedback to make it better and brighter. You can provide feedback, report bugs and join in with architectural discussions at any of WSO2 public lists and also you can have a better understanding via going through many articles at WSO2 Oxygen tank.
Managerial Economics (ME) can be broadly defined as the study of economic theories, logic and tools of economic analysis which are used in the process of business decision making. Many literature identifies “economics” as a social science, which studies human behavior in relation of available resource consumption, hence study of managerial economics is identified timely with growing complexities of business decision making.
At present, the study of ME follows the approach of neo-classical economics, where it identifies several features such as small government, rational man (doesn’t wish to loose in any way), optimization, economic efficiency, dynamic general equilibrium and the use of quantitative techniques. The study also accounts individuals, family, households, firms, financial intermediaries, government, international organizations and NGOs as economic agents.
Managerial Economics identifies various approaches to analyze management problems of a business, among which, revenue of the firm, costs of the firm, profit maximization, economic profits, opportunity cost and present value stands significant.
In Managerial Economics, value of a firm is determined by,Where, value of i depends on involved risk of the firm and conditions in capital market, value of TR depends on demand and forecasting, pricing and new product development, value of TC depends on production techniques, cost functions and process development.
And finally adding to the introduction, the scope of ME includes, demand analysis & forecasting, resource allocation, production & cost analysis, competitive analysis, pricing and strategic planing.
Thought of documenting this for my own reference, hope this will help. I am also planing to make a knowledge base article out of it to be posted in WSO2 Oxygen Tank.
As you may know, if your are familiar with Log4j, that the logs created with it, can be stored in a database instead of a file. In order to do that you need to add few configuration values to the log4j.properties file.
In-terms of a WSO2 Carbon based server this properties file resides in CARBON_HOME/lib directory. before adding these configurations there are few steps to visit.
[1] Create database {LOG_DB}
[2] Create the log table {LOGGING} with the following fields
create table LOGGING (
id decimal NOT NULL,
prio varchar(15),
cat varchar(255),
thread varchar(30),
msg varchar(255),
layout_msg varchar(255),
throwable varchar(2000),
the_timestamp timestamp);
[3] Create a user and assign to the DB
{user: logger / pwd: logger}
[4] Copy jdbcappender.jar to {CARBON_HOME}/lib and {CARBON_HOME}/repository/components/lib along with the database driver
{jdbcappender.jar can be found at http://www.dankomannhaupt.de/projects/jdbcappender/lib/jdbcappender.jar}
Thats it. All preconditions are set, Now open up the log4j.properties file and add the following appender settings to the end.
#log to db appender log4j.appender.DB_APPENDER=org.apache.log4j.jdbcplus.JDBCAppender log4j.appender.DB_APPENDER.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/LOG_DB log4j.appender.DB_APPENDER.dbclass=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver log4j.appender.DB_APPENDER.username=logger log4j.appender.DB_APPENDER.password=logger log4j.appender.DB_APPENDER.sql=INSERT INTO LOGGING (id, prio, cat, thread, msg, layout_msg, throwable, the_timestamp) VALUES (@INC@, '@PRIO@', '@CAT@', '@THREAD@', '@MSG@', '@LAYOUT:1@', '@THROWABLE@', '@TIMESTAMP@') log4j.appender.DB_APPENDER.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
Scroll to log4j.rootLogger and add the appender to the list,
log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, CARBON_CONSOLE, CARBON_LOGFILE, CARBON_MEMORY, CARBON_SYS_LOG, DB_APPENDER
“Sadly, Mozilla has no plans to develop this phone. The Mozilla Seabird is a “community-driven exploration” meant to “push the boundaries of the Web and the browser.” – ReadWriteWeb
Recently I had to travel to US for work related matters, and found that traveling to the other side of the world is a “Pain in the ass”, On my 1st trip, I was quite excited, I haven’t been on a flight for more than 6 – 8 hours and by simply knowing that trip to US takes almost 30 hours made me pack more and more stuff for the journey itself (and seriously thats a bad idea).
So my second trip to US couple of day back, I knew whats coming and tried to make it far better than the previous. So here are the tips:
- Try to check-in early as possible (via on-line if possible) and catch an aisle seat in your flight.
- Don’t wear heavy uneasy cloths. (shorts, linen pants and t-shirts helps alot)
- Wear sandals if thats an option (Most security checkpoints in many airports ask you to remove your shoes and scan them so sandals do help)
- Carry only a backpack (check-in all your heavy bags as luggage)
- Take your laptop/ipad with you it helps to kill time in transit (or a book if thats your thing)
Came a across a short & sweet article on HBR blogs, thought of sharing; “Five Powers that Get Ideas off the Ground”,
[1] Showing up: the power of presence.
[2] Speaking up: the power of voice.
[3] Teaming up: the power of partnering.
[4] Looking up: the power of values.
[5] Not giving up: the power of persistence.
Its been awhile am writing a post, was busy, was traveling mostly was lazy. Lot happened during the past two months, I started reading for my masters in Management & Information Technology. Yeah I know !! “Management”, I wanted to explore that side of the story, since its with IT, I thought it will might come in handy at some point. Maybe I’ll be completely wrong 
I was in California (In San Francisco to be specific) for almost two months, providing consultancy for a customer. Was able to visit Google head office in mountain view and I was fascinated. Even I am back in SL and almost a month has passed by, I still couldn’t get back into writing. First I thought its my busy schedule, and that I do not have time, But then I got vacation. Now the one week long vacation has almost come to an end, and all what I have done is sleep, watch movies, read, tweet and sleep.
I visited my blog once in awhile, and immediately closed the tab, with a guilty feeling for making it’s post calender so empty. So even this post contains nothing valuable, I wish it will make me start writing again.
I should Tweet less and blog more !!!
The Smashing Magazine posted a nice article on infographics, and their example was “The World of Programming”, that’s a job well done
