ali1k’s Blog

Believe it or not , but I turn 25 today. (Getting lonely, getting old Can you feel me?)

+ Today was a memorial day for me! I think it was my best birthday day! I heard a lot of good and surprising news today. I estimated my success rate for today using data mining techniques! It was above 85% :D. I have many works to do in recent days! Saturday is my last exam, Data Mining!

+ I’m going to travel to Sydney a few days later, I aim to participate in CIT2008 and visit Australia! Also, my second paper was accepted in ICWS2008 after a hard review process. Its title is “A Framework for Distributed Market Place based on Intelligent Software Agents and Semantic Web Services“.

I’m one of the Google’s followers,I’m accustomed of Google Reader, it is wonderful,without wasting your time and in a relaxed environment(without annoying ads) with power of Ajax, you can read infinite articles,you can share and discover knowledge, you can enjoy your life.It makes life on the web easier…

- I can’t surf the web without gateway of Google home page,It is starting point of every web browser…

- I use Google Calendar to schedule my daily programs and check my free times with my friends to suggest a good time for making an appointment…
- I find my friends on Orkut and experience social web with it.
- I use Gmail to send emails faster, I forward my email accounts to Yahoo! because I can.There is no limitation,no obligation…

Google is an impotant part of my life,without its dynamic logo, life is too hard! I love Google because it hasn’t obligatory manner,It respects customers,It doesn’t behave like others,It likes innovation and allows greats ideas to born…
However these days I am worry about new strategies and new thoughts that i see at Google products,Google wants to work like a platform,It wants to capture the web. This approach seems good from viewpoint of easier life, but i smell a rat!

Today i saw AJAX Libraries API, a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.It is in direction of Google’s new strategy (Google App Engine),I had seen this idea in YUI library to speed up invoking JS scripts, but Google wants to cover all the libraries!
Google shouldn’t get self conceited! It is true that Google is unique ,however it is a platform for allowing novel ideas to be happen not exclusive platform that prevents others from thinking and making ideas!Google should not be a new Microsoft! I hope that my imaginations aren’t real and Google will continue its lovely way in future…

Life isn’t like in the movies. Life… is much harder!?

Today, I wrote a simple plugin for Symfony, my favorite PHP MVC framework. It uses  scriptaculous.js and Cropper.js (developed by David Spurr ) to crop images and create cropped images using PHP GD library.

You can download it by clicking here! Installation process is as simple as other Symfony plugins:

1.Unpack and Copy plugin files to your project plugin folder.

2. Enable module in your `settings.yml`:

  {{{

    all:

      .settings:

        enabled_modules:      [default, sfCropper]

  }}}

3. Put sfCropper web folder into your project web folder.

4. Clear you cache:

  {{{

    symfony cc

  }}}

5.Use it:

<?php

use_helper(’cropper’);

//cropper_image($image_name,$image_id=’crop1′,$default_crop=1)

cropper_image(’test.jpg’);

?>

These days, we are in celebration of Nowruz, beginning of the Iranian year. During the Nowruz holidays people are expected to visit one another (mostly limited to families, friends and neighbors) in the form of short house visits, which are usually reciprocated. Most people in Iran believe that whatever a person does on Nowruz will affect the rest of the year. So, if a person is warm and kind to their relatives, friends and neighbors on Nowruz, then the New Year will be a good one.

Today, I had this opportunity to visit a historical place called Uzbak Hill. Before this, I had tried so much for visiting this place but I couldn’t get authorization to enter the place! It was wonderful but with very regret! Uzbak Hill is 3500 years old and was the center of power for first Aryan governments. It is located in a small village in Nazarabad city near Tehran (85KM west). The first brick (adobe) that was built by human being was found in this region. Mr. Khatami in his presidency donated a brick from this place to United Nation as a symbol for world cultural communications. When I saw the place I felt that it is a forgotten sign of our culture that is abandoned and damaged! It needs more attention! I took some photograph from Uzbak Hill:

“We must become the change we want to see in the world.“- Mahatma Gandhi

 + We are living in a world that is facing many risks and Risks are of vital part of our lives, Risks that we feel explicitly or implicitly. Global Risks are increasing and seriously affect our lives. If we are looking to a better future, it is inevitable to consider risks and their side effects. In our decisions, each element should be properly organized to make risk mitigation as much as possible. Today, I was browsing World Economic Forum website and looked at its global risk program. It was good information about different types of risks around us: Economic Risks, Environmental Risks, Technological Risks and Geopolitical Risks. Noticeable point was that Middle East and especially Iran plays an important role in many Geopolitical Risks. Stability of this region can affect world economics,but in recent years we see many conflicts in this region .These conflicts stem from hyper power governments that are seeking their benefits in this region.I hope to see face of peace in Middle East!

+Today i had this chance to go to Tochal with my good friends,Tochal is a beautiful mountain at north of Tehran. Weather was very cool and i enjoyed talking with my friends about everything from Tech to Life. I saw an old man with high degree of power and hope for life, stronger that many modern young boys! 

We are near Norooz(Celebration of new year in Iran),and Today was a good time for me to think about past year , activities and progress that i made.I hope to improve my knowledge in new year and make a good strategic plan for my life!Life is not only life!

+Today I received good news; it was acceptance of my paper in CIT2008! My paper was about a semantic web service oriented model for project management. As my first experience, it was hopeful and promising event.

Alex Iskold has written an article about the Killer App of Semantic Web.He has analyzed several existing and potential applications of semantic technologies and looked for the killer app.With proliferation of semantic technologies,people are excited to sense real power of this new technology,but still there is no such a powerfull and usefull killer app to provide this sense for users.I think Semantic Web Services(SWS) can be a killer app and initiator for propagation of semantic web technologies. 

There are several researches in the area of SWS for “Making semantic web real“:

• WSMO
• OWL-S
• SWSF
• WSDL-S

It seems that between current technologies that support semantic web services, WSMO has a bright future and good features.WSMO has many good editors such as WSMO Studio  and Web Service Modeling Toolkit (WSMT) to annotate web services and working with Ontologies,Mediators and other concepts of WSMO.Futhermore, There exist two WSMO-compliant implementations which follow the conceptual model of WSMO: The Web Service Execution Environment (WSMX) and The Internet Reasoning Service IRS-III.

I don’t know when we can use capabilities of semantic web services in real world but it isn’t so far and it can be killer app for SW.

“A little knowledge that acts is worth more than much
knowledge that is idle.“—Kahil Gibran

+ Snow,Snow,Snow…It was wonderful! All the schools are closed beacuse of heavy snow that was unique since 50 recent years! Weather conditions like other elements of our complex world are unpredictable,One day you suffer from warmness and another they you enjoy it! Random happiness is more pleasurable than prepared one, shine on my crazy diamond…

+ University,exams,papers,… All the closed books are opened! Enthusiasm,Disillusionment,Panic,Search for the guilty and Punishment of the innocent.Life is life…

Last week,in the classroom,one of my friends asked me: Are you satisfied from your life?! I said ‘why not’,without any reasoning!After that i dived into deep thoughts,What was my goal in life and at this moment in which level of progress i am! We are living in a busy,complex and unpredictable world, world of uncertainty.In such a complex environment,everybody act as a service and have an interface to interact with other people,They don’t have any knowlege about real internal intentions of each other,They are enforced to trust! We should adapt ourself with high speed flow of new world before we drown in darkness of Ignorance!I think in this new style of life,thinking about tomorrows is impossible,we forget yesterdays as soon as remember tomorrows! How far we are from morning?!This is a question that we should find answer of it every day we wake up and open our gifts(new opportunity to experience new life)