Silverlight

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device browser plug-in that helps companies design, develop and deliver applications and experiences on the Web. Silverlight enables a new class of rich, secure and scalable cross-platform experiences.

Silverlight 3 introduces major media enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including perspective 3D graphics support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity. To fully integrate all the .NET developer tools, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web Developer Express support a fully editable and interactive designer for Silverlight.

Silverlight include:
Support for Higher Quality Video & Audio
Empowering Richer Experiences
Improving Rich Internet Application Productivity
Enhanced Data Support
Improved performance
Out of Browser Capabilities

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वो भूखा था फिर भी लड़ता था...
वो घायल था फिर भी बढ़ता था
लिए ज़ख्म जिस्म पे अपने
वो आगे ही आगे बढ़ता था
पथरीली चट्टानों पर
लिए बन्दूक कंधो पर
दुर्गम से दुर्गम पथ पर
वो न थकता था न रुकता था
बस आगे ही आगे वो बढ़ता था
तूफानी नदियों में
बर्फीली तुफानो में
बस वो मुस्कुराता रहता था
कभी बनता सहारा पल भर का ..
कभी किसी की जान बचाता
वो मसीहा सा लगता था
वो एक फौजी था जो बस
आगे ही आगे बढ़ता जाता था
खून से सने वर्दी में
वो जो कदरदान था तिरंगे का
न थकता था चिलचिलाती धुप में
लगा सर पे टोपी
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वो भूखा था फिर भी लड़ता था
भूल गया था उस मासूम को
अपने एकलोते नए प्यार को
माँ बाप भी याद नहीं है उसको
याद करता है बस भारत माँ को
सामने दुश्मन के वो तूफान
कभी मासूम कभी हैवान
दुम हिलाता था दुश्मन भी
जब शेर बन वो दहाड़ता था
बस वो लड़ता ही जाता था
वो बस बढ़ता ही जाता था ......
"जय जवान "
है लिए हाथ में हथियार दुश्मन तक में बैठा उधर
और हम तैयार है सीना लिए अपना इधर
खून से खेलेंगे होली गर वतन मुस्किल में है
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
हाथ जिनमे हो जूनून कटते नहीं तलवार से
सर जो उठ जाते है वो झुकते नहीं ललकार से
और भड़केगा जो शोला सा हमारे दिल में है
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
हम तो घर से निकले ही थे बांध कर सिर पर कफ़न
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Scala-- The Future of java is here!!

Scala is a statically typed, object-oriented programming language that blends imperative and functional programming styles. Scala is designed to integrate easily with applications that run on modern virtual machines, primarily the Java virtual machine (JVM). The main Scala compiler, scalac, generates Java class files that can be run on the JVM. However, another Scala compiler exists that generates binaries that can be run on the .NET CLR, as Scala is designed to integrate with both the Java and .NET worlds. In the Java world, the Scala language can be used alongside the Java language—either as an alternative to Java—to build applications that run on the JVM.

Scala was developed starting in 2003 by Martin Odersky's group at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, Martin had been active in the Java field. He co-designed the first version of Java generics and was the original author of the current javac compiler. The work on Scala was motivated by the desire to overcome limitations imposed by backwards compatibility with Java. So Scala is not a superset of Java, but it retains seamless interoperability.

One reason you might want to use Scala is that it allows you to increase your productivity compared to Java while leveraging JVM execution speed, your existing investments in Java code, knowledge, and the vast array of APIs available for the JVM. It has the conciseness of a dynamic language like Ruby or Python, but it is statically typed, like Java. Another reason is that Scala comes with an Erlang-like Actors library that greatly simplifies concurrent programming, but runs on the JVM.

By: http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html

Mashups

Mashups
In the context of learning and assessments mashups can be categorized as follows:

1. Portlet – configured by an end user
2. Page (Web, Wiki or Blog) – configured by a web author
3. Data – configured by a programmer
   

Portlet Based Mashup
Portlet based mashups provide different “windows” that interact with different and separate applications and users can move these portlets around their screen to meet their own personal requirements.

Page Based Mashup
Page based mashups are configured by the author of the web page, wiki and or blog to determine where application data and interactions might occur.

Documentation, learning content and assessments are often available throughout an organization’s infrastructure but challenging to find and they are especially difficult to find in context. Wikis, blogs and web pages can be used to expose existing resources, wrap context, to provide a meaningful learning and/or assessment experience. Learning mashups can improve learner experiences and learning outcomes.

Data Mashups

A data mash up is where data is drawn from different data sources and displayed within a single page. In this style a programmer constructs a program to retrieve the data, from different data sources, and then display it within a web page.

Courtesy- http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=66406667&gid=55108&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.eric.info%2F2009%2F09%2F01%2Flearning-mashups%2F&urlhash=tz-h&trk=news_discuss

Load balancing FMS servers using LVS (DR mode)

Load balancing FMS servers using LVS (DR mode)

How do we configure LVS (or any load balancer for that matter) to detect when there has been a failure of a particular real server?

Answer by Jean--

It is possible to load balance using LVS, we could do an HTTP health monitor against FMS since it supports tunneling over HTTP. We can also probably hit the admin service port of the FMS server, which has a REST like interface and use some metrics like the number of streams or number of application instances. keep alived or something similar should work for the actual interface for putting servers in an out of rotation for local server load balancing. People generally know who use LVS write their own custom health check layer.