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 

The Quality of Mercy By: William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.