Spring is coming…

“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.

Brain Market Space…

Semantic Web Services:Killer App of SW?!

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.

Frozen Inside…

“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…

How far we are from morning…

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)

Division Bell…

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun

Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut

There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before times took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
When friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There’s a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we’ve been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river

Forever and ever…

Desert of the real…

“There’s a way to do it better – find it.“ - Thomas A. Edison

+ Imagine a  world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible! Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?! imagination is more important than knowlege! I don’t know what’s going on me ,these busy confusing days…

+ New university,new friends,new works and new viewpoints to future,all are surrunding me! We never forget old days,old friends and all past events, We can only restrict ourself to not  remember undesirable memoirs!Where is my next station?,this is an iterating question that pounding in my head!I define the answer(s) of this question myself as i wish but i don’t know final break condition of this loop! I’m trying to adapt myself to new situations,new goals with correcting wrong goals but in this way i’m dealing with many conflicting issues! No problem,go on…

+ These days,I’m experiencing  a new theme of study and research,MSc’s courses are very different from bachelor’s degree in type of presentation and also type of lecturers! I have many works to do and preparing research papers for each course is  terrible but interesting  experience! I’m experiencing a good team work ,too!Managing and working with a team is more harder than individual working,it’s clear!

+ Yahoo mail website has recently removed ”Iran” from the list of world countries in its signup page! I think it’s a dummy work  from respectable Yahoo team! (Goodbye Yahoo!)

Golden Fall Days…

“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.” John N. Mitchell

+ When eveything seems boring  what do you do? what can you do to change your state?! I think in these situations, listening to a good music can be one alternative solution! Specially in Golden Fall Days, depression level  of human beings and usage of Lithium goes high !This is the romantic season of memoirs…

+ Today,i found Zoho products.(Zoho  is an Office Productivity Suite from AdventNet Inc. )At the first time,When I entered to this website,I felt that it’s a new google-oriented website! User Interface model of Zoho is very similar to google’s UI,simple,flat and fast. Despite of this similarity, I think an important thing in Zoho products is Integration of   individual office apps .Users can easily swap between diffrent products  and by combining the results,more ‘mashed up’ functionality become available.It’s great!

+ These days,I’m working on Semantic Web Services  and using it in Supply Change Management Processes.For example in procurement process, Instead of employees constantly searching for suppliers and buyers, the web service infrastructure does it automatically within the defined constraints.For this purpose,we need support in mechanizing service recognition, service configuration and combination , service comparison and automated negotiation.I have many works to do!

The Holy Month of Ramadan…

+ These days we are spending holy days of Ramadan. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, when the Qur’an was revealed. It is a good opportunity  for me in this month to bring  myself to life,again! With fasting we can experience absolute meaning of  the life,from sunrise to sunset ,be a progressively better person!

+ Today, I  launched Ajaxian.ir (Ajax news and events in Persian).It’s a linklog,a system for reporting and reviewing usefull links in context of Web 2.0 .I’ve designed this system using Symfony Web framework ,  in my free times.It’s in beta version now and i will spread it,in near future!

+ Last week,I registered for master degree courses in Khaje Nasir Toosi University of Technology.Filling many information forms repeatedly,was a boring task for me,but no problem! I hope to have good times in this new university as a student of Information technology(e-commerce)

+ Last week[10 september] in Tehran ,followers of open source community,celebrated Software Freedom Day ,Installing Ubuntu and advertising Persian WordPress were some  programs of this celebration in front of main theatre of city.

Whispers Around A Symfony…

+  After many discussions with some of my friends,I want to say that: OK! Your are in right, Symfony is slow in execution (Without any PHP accelerator), but fast in application development! This is a simple trade off. What are you really looking for?! Speed in development process or speed in runtime execution?(or maybe both of them,Lords!) I believe that these are two inseparable aspects.To dive into Agile Programming,you must spend a few amounts of your speed.It depends on you, If your vision is a large-scale web app, you need a symfony for harmonious arrangement of your app components.The time is gone,the song is over… 

~ From Old Days:

+ Say Goodbye to PHP4… [13-Jul-2007] The PHP development team announced that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4.  some of the mostly used PHP applications are only compatible with PHP4, and web hosts cannot just drop PHP4 support , But as long as hosts support PHP4, software vendors will continue to develop with it, even though PHP4 code is often very hard to maintain, debug, and add up to. Now, PHP5 is the future of PHP.We never forget our memoirs with lovely PHP4 ,but we should follow this rule that when a new thing come to bazar, old thing will be disappointed! If you want to support PHP5 go to  gophp5.org and add the name of your host company or software project. 

+ [July 31, 2007 ] IRAN unveiled the world’s largest handwoven carpet, worth 5.8 million $US   and larger than a football pitch, to be laid out in a United Arab Emirates mosque. 65-thousand-square-foot carpet, the work of 1,200 skilled crafts people who spent 18 months working on it. Persian carpets face a rising challenge from Asian countries where labour is cheaper. Our share in the world market has dwindled to 40 percent standing at 480 million dollars in 2006.I hope that this carpet as a symbol of Persian culture , show that the Art still is in hand of Iranians!