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Blue Moon walks us into 2010

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As the Blue moon walks us into 2010, its a good time to reflect the past year, but what exactly is the blue moon? lets have the reflection first then the blue moon ... Shall we? thanks :) 2009, a year has past, new lessons learned, new experiences acquired, the world existed before I was born and so will it be when I would be laid to rest. World does not need me for it to go on, for that there is Allah, then in this world no one would be left off without being tried and tested, would i be an exception? Nope sir that is not an option. Amazing the way Allah has designed the test, so dynamic with varying conditions there is no point in life when he is not watching you, the angels recording you, I know we have no choice to opt out of this test. But guys we are human beings and who does not like an easy question paper :). is there a way to get an easy test, there is "One who is satisfied with 'little' from Allah, HE would be satisfied with 'little' from them...

Kerala High Court Stays Investigations

The Kerala high court has stayed further investigations into a matter of alleged 'forceful conversion' read about it here or here or here

Islamic Role Models

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My self and a few friends were visiting a buzurg ( a deeni elder ),  During the wait a discussion spawned up, the topic being who is the role model for the Muslim's from the contemporary time frame. The active discussion revolved around big names alive today including Uelema(Islami Scholars), Saintly elders, Kings, Mufties (the people who gives fatwa), Daees(people who invite towards islam). Each name which came up for the discussions had exceptional qualities. A person said "Look at this person(so and so) see how simple a life he is living" Another said "This persons understanding of the Quraan and Sunna is so very clear, it makes much sense to me" Another was quick to point out "See the impact of this particular persons speeches and discourses, it is really amazing" Another noted "When i listen to the speeches of this person I get this strong inspiration to change and reform my self" Another noted "And this guy, he is ...

Four Management Lessons

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Lesson Number One A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?" The crow answered: "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it. Management Lesson: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up. Lesson Number Two A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy. "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull. "They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fort...

Climate Treaty Copenhagen

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World eagerly awaits for a treaty that would address to safeguard and protect the environment and hence the climate, greenpeace and others are on a 'jihad' to make sure it happens. Despite the dignitaries coming together for this cause, people who are involved still are not expecting  a sensible outcome but what they are hoping for is a miracle to happen. Has the matter of things been degraded to such a level that only miracles can solve the issue? Lets look at the issue at hand here, in a pictorial way   We all human beings are driven by our needs, desires and other activities which impact the world we live in, so there is your cause and there is your effect. Today we are driven by our own selfish desires, which unfortunately do not care much about the impact that it makes, like shown below. Today we are driven by our selfish goals, we are not ready to make some sacrifices and be a little selfless in our matters to reach a consensus for general well being, and yet we...

SOA Standards & Building Blocks

SOA is dependent on standards to achieve interoperability and flexibility. It is vital for an SOA architect to have a dashboard that acts as a reference to the various technology standards. This is such a reference deck, to see which all standards you need to know, whether it is for Solution design, implementation, consultancy or even certification. Click on each standards for details. WS-I WSDM BPEL WSRP WS-Transaction WS-Coordination WSDM WS-Security WS-Trust WS-Federation WS-SecureConversation WS-SecurityPolicy WS-Provisioning WS-Privacy WS-Reliable Messaging WSDL UDDI WS-Policy WS- Discovery SOAP,SOAP Attachments WS-Addressing , WS-Notification JMS, RMI, IIOP etc

SOA Building Blocks WSRP

Integration of remote content and application logic into an End-User presentation has been a task requiring significant custom programming effort. Typically, vendors of aggregating applications, such as a portal, write special adapters for applications and content providers to accommodate the variety of different interfaces and protocols those providers use. The goal of this specification is to enable an application designer or administrator to pick from a rich choice of compliant remote content and application providers, and integrate them with just a few mouse clicks and no programming effort. This revision of the specification adds Consumer managed coordination, additional lifecycle management and a set of related aggregation enhancements. This specification is the effort of the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Technical Committee which aims to simplify the effort required of integrating applications to quickly exploit new web services as they become available. This...