The Sixth Sense --- MIT Media Lab

Google Summer of Code 2009 & Me

It was 20th April, 2009, yesterday.

I was among the thousands around the globe who were waiting with a final hope...

It was the announcement day of the accepted proposals for Google Summer of Code 2009.

Finally, I was not lucky enough to get my project proposal accepted.

I applied for an Apache project, the Apache Roller which is a JavaEE based web application supporting for creating blogs.

Because of my interest in Java web applications, Apache Roller strike me most among the other projects.

Earlier I was thinking of take part in GSoC from 2010. But finally I managed to send a proposal for GSoC 2009. But it was not a success.

Anyhow this will be a good experinec for me to give a better effort next time.

I remembered the quote: "Failures are the pillars to Success".

But there was a good news for me. One of my batch mate among the very few who applied for GSoC, got selected to an Apache project. It was an inspiring newa for me to motivate my self towards GSoC, 2010.

What I learnt is: "Sincere comittement never fails"

"Try! Try! Try! One day you can fly!" a quote I used to see every where when I was a child.

Oracle to Buy Sun for $7.4 Billion

For more : http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVWptwRiZl1w&refer=home#


So, what's going to happen???
Will there be any huge affects for us??
I have to wait & explore more, I guess.

A Good Challenge

Open CMS

I came to know about the new technology "Open CMS" from one of my friend.

I found something interesting about it...

A small description from it's website: http://www.opencms.org/en/

OpenCms is a professional, easy to use website content management system. OpenCms helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently.

The fully browser based user interface features configurable editors for structured content with well defined fields. Alternatively, content can be created using an integrated WYSIWYG editor similar to well known office applications. A sophisticated template engine enforces a site-wide corporate layout and W3C standard compliance for all content.

OpenCms is based on Java and XML technology. It can be deployed in an open source environment (e.g. Linux, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL) as well as on commercial components (e.g. Windows NT, IIS, BEA Weblogic, Oracle).

As true open source software, OpenCms is free of licensing costs.

Since it's based in Java and XML, I got interested about it and I'm going to read something more on it...

Why don't people value something which is given free of charge???

I was attending a workshop last week and one thing which made me angry was the behaviour of some  people.

Why don't people appreciate something when they get it for free?

 That workshop was conducted free of charge and most of the participants were engaged in their own business when a lecturing session was going on.

It was really annoying me and I couldn't do anything.

I couldn't understand why those people behaved like that. They didn't think of the value of that session. I understood that people don't value something when they are getting it for free. When these people are given a chance to learn something new free of charge, they were just ignoring it due to some silly reasons. They were not thinking that someone is doing something free of charge just because they care about other people and want them to become more professional... Don't these people know how much other people spending to attend such workshops???

I value such good opportunities because personally I've spent money on such workshops. But these people were wasting a good opportunity... I don't know the reason... But onething I know for sure is that those people who were ignoring the service given free of charge will definitely regret about their mistakes oneday and surely they will be suffering at least a litte...

Some quotes which made me to think...

f"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." --- Bruce Barton 

"Success doesn't come to you…you go to it." --- Marva Collins  

“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.” ---  Tom Krause

“Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.” --- Annonymus

“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.” ---  Stephen Kaggwa