Monday, June 23, 2008

My first talk at Swinburne

Tomorrow I'm going to talk about Myself, Apache Software Foundation and WSO2. And also about the community that ASF has developed and how ASF works by bringing developers and users together.
The second part of the talk is about WSO2, where we developed many web services middleware for the Apache Software Foundation and hence for the open source community.
The interesting fact is that some staff members including PhD students here knows about Oxygentank but not about WSO2. :)

Living in Melbourne

It's so easy to come to Melbourne Air Port but not from there to the home you desire...

This hold still true for me as there is a big competition for apartments and town houses in Melbourne and its suburbs. Now I have to live temporarily in an area a bit far (about 30km) from the university travelling up and down by train daily.
Winter is not that cold but it's raining as often as train leaves a station. You can expect the blue sky and the rain at the same time in this Victorain Capital.
People here are from all over the world making it a Salad city. It's like one place to see all the nationalities in the world. Except in certain areas of Melbourne, where Beijing is re-created in Australia.
Apart from Chinese and Indians, Australians(?) too live in Melbourne. And in Trains, Parks and Shops you have a chance of meeting a Sri Lankan too.
Last weekend I've a chance to travel in the city and see the Australian life style. Should take some pics next weekend when its sunny and bright during the short day time.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Painful

Painful... its so painful not to have a notebook + broadband.
Finally I've got the notebook that I was looking for and the next task is... broadband. hmm... life is not that easy in cross roads.
Need to settle down and blog again. :-(

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Two achievements...

I am very thrilled with two achievements recently grabbed by two of my WSO2 colleagues.

1irst

Paul, who is a co-founder of WSO2, has become one of the TOP 25 CTOs of 2008 nominated by InfoWorld . Technically I have learned a lot from him and he is one of the great persons to talk about web services.
His expertise definitely helped to bring WSO2 to where is is right now and a very cool guy to talk about serious stuff.

2econd

Deepal who's a colleague of mine in WSO2 and also a batch mate from University of Moratuwa has written a book. Still he didn't give me a free copy ;-) but you can get it from here.
The book contains information about mostly used features of Axis2 web services engine and a must have in your shelf if you are using the engine to consume/deploy web services. Besides it's from the hands of some one who's a key figure behind the success of Axis2.

Congratulations to both of you...