Must attend talk in WSO2Con2011 - Engineering to take over the world by Samisa Abeysinghe

Written by Charitha

WSO2Con 2011, a week full of tutorials, tech talks, networking events will be commenced shortly at WatersEdge, Colombo, Sri Lanka. If you are attending the conference, I'm sure you will look for a session which gives you an overall picture about how WSO2 has become a leading technology provider and what are the secret ingredients of the process that has been followed.

There is no other individual than Samisa Abeysinghe, VP of Engineering at WSO2, who knows top to bottom of WSO2 engineering process as well as lead the engineering team for the last five years to become where we are now. If you are bored with listening to traditional process sermons which are usually heard in conferences, this will be a totally different session for you. We are at WSO2, while redefining the middleware space, reinventing the software development process too. We have our own way of designing, developing and testing products. Wanna know more about how we do that? then do not forget to attend the session by Samisa which will be held on 15th of September 2011 at 15.30 PM!

See original post

WSO2Con 2011

Written by Chathuri Wimalasena

WSO2Con 2011 has just started in grand style few minutes back in Sri Lanka. It will be one fabulous week with lot of technical talks and great keynotes each and every day. If you missed to attend to it, you still can watch live streaming of WSO2Con from here.

I m pretty sure it will be worth watching... 

See original post

SOA & Business: Thoughts from a Pro

Written by Hiranya Jayathilaka

Most developers and architects today understand the fundamentals of SOA. SOA concepts and related technologies such as WS-* have been around for several years now and they are not exactly the new kids in town. But it's surprising to see that many business organizations are still not harnessing the true power and potential of SOA. SOA can help make a business more agile and flexible to change while reducing lot of development and maintenance overheads. It can also address many IT management problems by implanting proper SOA governance practices and processes within an organization. So then why many organizations have yet failed to realize these goals with SOA?

While many companies have been struggling to implement proper SOA, eBay, the world's largest on-line market place, has done wonders with it. Most of eBay's IT infrastructure is based on SOA principles. They have also developed a fantastic SOA platform called eBay Turmeric, which they open sourced a few months ago (this framework uses WSO2 Governance Registry inside). Sastri Malladi, who is a distinguished architect at eBay has been a driving force behind these SOA adoption efforts. In a couple of days time he's going to deliver a keynote speech titled "Service Orientation - Why is it good for business?" at WSO2Con. If you are wondering why business organizations should consider SOA or why they are failing to implement proper SOA, this is the session to attend. I'm sure it's going to be a very exciting session.

See original post

"Catch Who Didn't Match You..." - Facebook unfriend finder on WSO2 StratosLive...!!!

The word "unfriend" was named as the word of year 2009 by the Oxford Dictionary.

unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.

The Facebook, the most popular social networking site, doesn't offer a straight forward way to figure out who removed you there.

The "Catch Who Didn't Match You" application caters exactly that. Currently it's running on WSO2 StrtosLive PAAS and backed by a highly scalable cassandra NoSQL data store - available via http://tinyurl.com/stratos-unfriend.

See original post

"Catch Who Didn't Match You..." - Facebook unfriend finder on WSO2 StratosLive...!!!

The word "unfriend" was named as the word of year 2009 by the Oxford Dictionary.

unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.

The Facebook, the most popular social networking site, doesn't offer a straight forward way to figure out who removed you there.

The "Catch Who Didn't Match You" application caters exactly that. Currently it's running on WSO2 StrtosLive PAAS and backed by a highly scalable cassandra NoSQL data store - available via http://tinyurl.com/stratos-unfriend.

See original post

Must attend talk in WSO2Con2011 - Security in practice by Prabath Siriwardhana

Written by Charitha

Time flew in light speed and finally the days have arrived! WSO2Con 2011, a conference which you should not miss. Though you are a seasoned IT professional or a student keen in learning latest technologies, it is the event of the year.

Out of more than 25 sessions which are planned to be held, my attention goes to one particular session first. It is "Security in Practice" by Prabath Siriwardhana which will be held on 14th of September, 2011 at 3.30 PM. Why do I like it than any other session?

Prabath is a brilliant speaker. I like the way he presenting. He has his own style which attract anyone in the audience.

Prabath is the expert of the most complex and hard-to-understand aspect of Service Oriented Architecture, Security

You can imaging the complexity of delivering a presentation in such a tough, complicated subject matter

But, Prabath has the ability to inject complex subject matters into your head in very nice manner. You should not miss this great session of Prabath if you are attending WSO2Con 2011!

See original post

WSO2Con is NOT just for “Hard Core” Techies

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 the fact that I am a member of wso2 team, and look at it as a Sri Lankan techie, the agenda still sounds pretty awesome.

Yesterday I meat a friend of mine (lets say Bob ) at a dinner, and Bob was saying, “you guys are doing a software conference right; I saw in media, sounds great !!”. I was head over heels (didnt wona say I am doing a talk; wanted to be bit modest ) I asked excitedly, “So are you coming ?”. But his reply surprised me. He said “Well I dont think its for us you know. Its too hard core; you guys are doing open source, SOA and cloud stuff. I don’t think we are there yet”. If I add little bit of context, Bob is the senior IT manager in a well reputed insurance company in Sri Lanka. So as I felt he had all the reasons to attend to WSO2Con.

I see several misconceptions in his comment, maybe people in Sri Lankan IT services (not directly software, but software is a supporting system like for IT systems for banks) industry are bit behind the game. For one, some people say SOA and Web Services are dead  it’s no news neither a buzz, Yes cloud stuff is kinda new, but you have it every where now, I guess its high time to check that out too. But whats so hard core about Open Source ??? !@#$.

So yeah WSO2Con is NOT just for “Hard Core” Techies. It certainly feels awesome that people think like that, but the truth is its a week of discussions on software systems. Maybe little bit more about distributed and service oriented systems, But isn’t everything distributed and service oriented these days ? .

If you checkout the agenda its mostly about enterprise systems, issues in enterprise systems, how to solve them, how open source software can help and most of all, its a week of discussions on experience. Why experience in bold; well if you read the abstracts of many talks, its all about how people solved their enterprise integration problems. It a talk show of first hand experiences. There are, IT consultants, Architects and Visionaries coming from around the world to share there knowledge and experience. What else can you ask for ?

So I guess, if you are a manger who has even a slight influence in IT matters, this is something you goto check out; maybe you do have the same problems as some of these speakers had some time back. It would be a great opportunity to talk to them in person and get some insight.

Well hope I did make some change of your attitude; and I do hope to see you .

FYI you can still register at wso2con.com

See original post