flex , flash programming

FXG Editor

http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/

http://www.vector-paint.com/

http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-editor.html

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/svg/index.html

http://sourceforge.net/adobe/swfinvestigator/wiki/Home/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97018/how-do-you-decompile-a-swf-file

http://scriptdraw.com/editor-split.html [R]

http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-editor.html [R]

Specs

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/

http://sourceforge.net/adobe/flexsdk/wiki/FXG%202.0%20Specification/

learing flex & flash programming

Basics of display programming

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7e3e.html

Graphic Group GroupBase UIComponent FlexSprite flash.display.Sprite

Path FilledElement StrokedElement GraphicElement flash.events.EventDispatcher

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex4_sparkintro.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS8114D32C-2892-42ed-B230-59A94C7690E1.html

http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/2010/04/08/core-flex-4-elements-vs-children/

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fl/motion/MatrixTransformer.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7e1b.html

http://www.selikoff.net/2010/03/17/solution-to-flex-image-rotation-and-flipping-around-center/

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/spark/components/Image.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7dcb.html

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/fl/motion/MatrixTransformer.html

http://www.flashandmath.com/howtos/zoom/index.html

http://www.tomauger.com/2013/flash-actionscript/actionscript-3-bitmapdata-draw-offset-and-positioning

My First day at Cricut

www.cricut.com

it's going to be a fun ride :)

Orchestrating the Cloud : back on Content Store

This month it is back to Content Store. The content Store needs few stories to be wrapped up.

The interesting part is in these stories.

1) AWS Cloudformation :

   I orchestrated the  content store stack using aws cloudformation.  Right from dns(route 53), Elastic        load balancer, Cloud front, S3, ec2, access control,MongoDb replica set, all in < 1000 lines of code. Wow!! what powerful framework.  The one think which puzzles me in this whole equation is which framework is authoritative for running script, is it the cloudinit, cfn-init or puppet . Right now I am using the hybrid approach of loading basic user-data and handing the control to cfn-init.


http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/

2) MongoDB Replica set:

  This was another interesting story to setup mongoDB replica set.

         http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets

3) EveryAuth:

 

  Authentication and Authorization in single api,google hybrid auth :) thats cool.

 

Back on Android

This month I was back on Android, I am been tasked to review the Architecture of huge Android Application which have issue with network connectivity.

Monitoring System

This month the focus was on Monitoring System. I was looking on the over all System for preventive and Early Warning System. The first version of system was deployed to production. The teck stack is Groudworks/Nagios with function testing running in ec2.

Monitoring System comparison & architecture

gomez:

http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/what-makes-gomez-unique.html

Lookingglass

http://www.lgscout.com/products/scoutvision

enterprisewizard (automated work flow)

http://www.enterprisewizard.com/applications.htm

http://www.zenoss.com/solution/overview

xymon

bigbrother

cacti

Graphical tool.

http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

installing cacti:

http://www.lastcombat.com/videos.php?one=RRDTool&two=MRTG&f=MRTG_vs_RRDTool

agent-less monitoring via SNMP, SSH, WMI ,Perfmon(context switches),

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx

Windows Monitoring With WMI And Powershell

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12810955/Network-Management-Paper-SNMP-vs-WMI

> Is RRDTool a rewrite of MRTG?

It's a rewrite of a portion of it.  "Classic" MRTG has some limitations
in terms of scalability and flexibility.  As it was originally designed to
count bits (or bytes) passing through an interface in two directions, it
doesn't like values less than 0, non-integer values, negative numbers,
or plotting a number of variables other then 2.  Thus, using it for things
such as plotting temperature can get tricky.  Also, classic MRTG draws a
new graph every interval, five minutes by default.  This can impact server
performance if there are many inputs.

RRDTool (Round Robin Database Tool) allows for more flexibility in the
type of data being plotted, and also doesn't create the actual graphs
until they are requested by a web page "hit".  This overcomes the limitations
of MRTG for plotting oddball or multiple values, etc.  It is also more
server-friendly in terms of CPU usage provided that your graphs don't
become the Slashdot feature site and you wind up with an enormous number
of hits.

http://silverwraith.com/papers/freebsd-snmp.php

3rd Party:

https://www.site24x7.com/index.html

finesse server:

http://vdc01dhgb01w03.idc.logitech.com:8888/

http://www.otrs.com/en/

http://itbod.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/how-to-monitor-netware-servers-using-the-check_nwstat-command-in-groundwork-community-edition-and-nagios/

Nagios XI:

Installation in ec2:

http://labs.nagios.com/2012/01/20/using-nagios-xi-in-amazon-ec2-cloud/

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Using_Nagios_XI_In_Amazon_EC2_Cloud.pdf

installing nodejs on centos

su -
yum install openssl-devel

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.10.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-v0.4.10.tar.gz
cd node-v0.4.10
./configure
make
make install

Install nodejs on groundworks VM

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc

. ~/.bashrc

mkdir ~/local

mkdir ~/node-latest-install

cd ~/node-latest-install

curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1

./configure --prefix=~/local

make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Local install of nagios:

http://ostatic.com/blog/monitoring-web-services-with-nagios

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/299

(nagios easy distribution)

http://omdistro.org/

Nagios docs:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/docs/Managing_Plugins_in_Nagios_XI.pdf

How To Install Nagios 3.2.2 On Ubuntu (Under 5 Minutes Total)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOQyOXxWlQ

http://localhost/sriramsite/omd (omdadmin/admin)

distribute monitoring

Security Audit

This Month the Focus was on Enhancing security on the Platform.

Migration to AWS

Services on AWS.


After working on this for over a month on my sparse time, I finally  moved 7 services to aws. It was a wonderful experience to re-architect  these services. It was well received and ignited the drive to move to aws.

Performance Testing

I did performance testing of our service on aws. It's very impressive what asynchronous  programming can do the performance.

Data Analysis Using Hadoop

I have been tasked with analyzing the huge data from Electronic Programme Guide.

Content Store

This month was a wrapping up  content Store, it's pretty complex coding.

Content Store

I have started implementing the content Store in nodejs with mongodb as the no-sql data store. I love the mongodb data store.

Logger

I worked on both nodejs and iOS client Libarary for logger. Objective C is not so bad as it seems.

Logger ,NodeJS,AWS

Bye Bye to GTV and android for now. This month I was working on Nodejs and AWS service, this was a sharp contract to what I was doing last month.

HDMI CEC

This month focus was on HDMI CEC . If CEC becomes a reality even my mother could setup home theater system.

.NET Deployment

This month was pulled to help on deployment aspect on .NET platform.kind of fresh eye to the plaguing problem on slow deployment.

Did a POC and demo on Web-Deploy and presented a paper on web-deploy. I believe this could greatly improve the existing deployment process.

Few Links that I used as a reference


http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2010/05/26/visual-studio-2010-web-deployment-projects-rtw-available-now.aspx

http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2010/11/team-build-web-deployment-web-deploy-vs.html

http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2009/09/overview-post-for-web-deployment-in-vs.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xee0c8y7.aspx

http://channel9.msdn.com/events/MIX/MIX10/FT14

http://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev10.query?appId=Dev10IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(WEBAPPLICATIONPROJECTS.PACKAGEPUBLISHOVERVIEW);k(TargetFrameworkMoniker-%22.NETFRAMEWORK%2CVERSION%3DV4.0%22)&rd=true

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2009/06/05/basic-microsoft-web-deployment-tool-setup-for-visual-studio-2010.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2010/04/14/visual-studio-2010-web-deployment-projects-beta-avail-now.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479568.aspx


http://www.microsoftpdc.com/2009/FT56


http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2009/11/web-deployment-painkillers-vs-2010-ms.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465326.aspx

http://www.iis.net/download/WebDeploy

Media Player V2

I was fixing bugs on Media Player V2. This whole Media player & codes and DLNA are complex beast to handle. I could spend entire life on this beast.

Netflix & iOS App Development

POC on Integration with Netflix api,demonstrated a deep content link on Roku box,"Oneclick to Content",

The app was in ios, on single click it turns the TV , changes input and plays the movie, all on onetouch.

First Price in Developer challenge

This is one of the happiest moments in life , won price worth 2000$. I was working on this project for last 4 months on my spare time.

Apart from this month focus on work was on cryptography. Wow Finally all got the opportunity to work on the intricacies of cryptography.

Media Player

This month  I was working on media player application. DLNA, DLNA.... and so many DLNA servers and incompatibility.....

Hadoop development

Hadoop Development

http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubuntu-linux-single-node-cluster/

Setting up Hadoop development Environment:

1) Download Eclipse , (java developers, the top one, it comes with maven plugin preinstalled)

2) If maven not installed , install one

3) Download hadoop tar.gz (http://apache.cs.utah.edu//hadoop/core/hadoop-0.20.205.0/)

http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/single_node_setup.html#Download

4) setup java home and export java_home

“export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home”

5) add Hadoop to path variable

6) install maven template

mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeCatalog=http://dev.mafr.de/repos/maven2/

7)  Run the jar

hadoop jar hadooptestapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar sree.WordCount ../input ouput

1) Download whirr and follow steps in

http://whirr.apache.org/docs/0.7.0/quick-start-guide.html

http://whirr.apache.org/

Remote Control App

This month I joined the project on Remote control application on android phones.

Customer Support App

I  started my journey in to the domain on Consumer Electronics. Wow Last month it  was on Enterprise Application and now this month It's a new world of android and Consumer Electronics ,Starting with Customer Support app.


Last few weeks prepping up with learning Android.

Vendavo Price Management and Performance.

Again the performance of java or middleware solutions. The problem is that pulling huge data from sap and running price calculation on java takes a quite bit of time, but for 1 millon price points it takes 12 hrs is completely unacceptable when compared to Sap ECC 6.0. so turning on to faithful old stored procedure to speed up the calculation.
Good finally it got down to 4 hrs.

Sap Netweaver Integration

I got deep in to vendava price management , I never knew setting up price of a product is a such complex science . I am getting my hands wet on sap netweaver integration with vendavo.

Vendavo Price Management

I am joining as the Architect for the Vendavo Price Management project, It will be new kind of domain that I will be working.

IBM WebSphere Commerce

I am Joining as an Architect for Building India's Largest e-commerce website. This is my biggest assignment heading a team of 40 people. The number of systems that need to integrate to make this happen is astonishing

1. IBM Commerce Server 
2. SAP,
3. IBM web content Management, 
4. Omnisearch, 
5. Sun Ldap, 
6. Payment Gateway,
7. Lotus Same time,
8. AdServer,
9. PhpBB,
10. Wordpress,
11. GeoClassifed, 

The site:

http://www.straightline.in/

http://www.indiadigitalreview.com/news/tata-steel-sail-joint-venture-launches-e-commerce-portal-straightlinein

Architecting Java Content Mgmt System To SharePoint

I am Architecting migration of existing Content Management System to SharePoint portal.

Java Content Management System

The Java Cms is developed purely in java , with IBM websphere as web-server. Looking at the architecture seems very well architected in object oriented way. No EJB's . I am proposing introducing Spring Framework for new modules. 

Java Content Management System

I am joining as a Project Lead to enhance the Custom Java Content Management Framework.

Oracle Product Life Cycle Management

I have joined Oracle PLM Team in Hyderabad. I will be working on Java, C++, Oracle ADF Framework, Oracle Bill of Material module and the Oracle database.




https://www.oracle.com/applications/agile-product-lifecycle-management/index.html